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Preliminary analysis of alternative divertors for DEMO

Holger Reimerdes, Marco Wischmeier, Paolo Ricci, Fabio Riva, Mirko Wensing

A physics and engineering analysis of alternative divertor configurations is carried out by examining benefits and problems by comparing the baseline single null solution with a Snowflake, an X- and a Super-X divertor. It is observed that alternative confi ...

Elsevier2021

Edge turbulence in ISTTOK: a multi-code fluid validation

Paolo Ricci, Fabio Riva, Eric Serre, Rogério Manuel Cabete De Jesus Jorge, Davide Galassi

Fluid models used to study the edge plasma region need to be benchmarked against similar conditions given that models can strongly differ in complexity and therefore the results they produce. Via this validation study undertaken through the framework of EU ...

2021

Shaping effects on scrape-off layer plasma turbulence: A rigorous validation of three-dimensional simulations against TCV measurements

Paolo Ricci, Fabio Riva, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui

The effect of plasma shaping on scrape-off layer (SOL) plasma turbulence is investigated through a rigorous validation exercise. Two- and three-dimensional simulations of the SOL plasma dynamics in three TCV limited discharges are carried out with the GBS ...

American Institute of Physics (AIP)2020

A Variable Structure Control Scheme Proposal for the Tokamak a Configuration Variable

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Timothy Goodman, Xavier Llobet, Yves Martin, Jean-Marc Moret, Olivier Sauter, Minh Quang Tran, Henri Weisen, Ivo Furno, Holger Reimerdes, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Stefano Coda, Christian Schlatter, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Alexander Karpushov, Laurie Porte, Yanis Andrebe, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Graves, Duccio Testa, Benoît Labit, Rémy Jacquier, Paolo Ricci, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Fabio Riva, Wouter Vijvers, Josef Kamleitner, Hoang Bao Le, Zhouji Huang, Himank Anand, Falk Hans Braunmüller, Joyeeta Sinha, Claudio Marini, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Federico Nespoli, Oulfa Chellaï, Anna Teplukhina, , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Millimeter-wave beam scattering by edge-plasma density fluctuations in TCV

Stefano Alberti, Timothy Goodman, Ivo Furno, Benoît Labit, Paolo Ricci, Fabio Riva, Oulfa Chellaï, Emanuele Poli, Marcelo Baquero Ruiz

In magnetically confined fusion devices, the use of millimeter waves (mmw) at the electron cyclotron (EC) frequencies ranges from plasma diagnostics to plasma heating, current drive and core confinement preservation. For large tokamaks such as ITER, numeri ...

2019

Simulation of plasma turbulence in the periphery of diverted tokamak by using the GBS code

Paolo Ricci, Fabio Riva, Baptiste Jimmy Frei, Christoph Wersal, Paola Paruta, Carrie Fiona Beadle

We report on the implementation of diverted magnetic equilibria in GBS and on first simulations in this geometry. GBS is a simulation code used to evolve plasma turbulence in the tokamak periphery by solving the drift-reduced Braginskii's equations. The mo ...

2018

Diboson interference resurrection

Andrea Wulzer, Fabio Riva

2018

Electroweak precision tests in high-energy diboson processes

Andrea Wulzer, Fabio Riva, Roberto Franceschini

Springer Nature2018

Three-dimensional simulations of plasma turbulence in the RFX-mod scrape-off layer and comparison with experimental measurements

Paolo Ricci, Fabio Riva, Nicola Vianello

American Institute of Physics (AIP)2018

Sliding Surface Based Schemes for the Tokamak a Configuration Variable

Patrick Blanchard, Stefano Alberti, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Timothy Goodman, Xavier Llobet, Yves Martin, Jean-Marc Moret, Olivier Sauter, Minh Quang Tran, Henri Weisen, Ivo Furno, Holger Reimerdes, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Stefano Coda, Christian Schlatter, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Alexander Karpushov, Laurie Porte, Yanis Andrebe, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Graves, Bernard Schneider, Duccio Testa, Benoît Labit, Rémy Jacquier, Paolo Ricci, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Miguel Filipe Silva Füglister, Fabio Riva, Wouter Vijvers, Josef Kamleitner, Hoang Bao Le, Zhouji Huang, Himank Anand, Falk Hans Braunmüller, Joyeeta Sinha, Claudio Marini, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Uncertainty propagation by using spectral methods: A practical application to a two-dimensional turbulence fluid model

Paolo Ricci, Fabio Riva

To reduce the computational cost of the uncertainty propagation analysis, which is used to study the impact of input parameter variations on the results of a simulation, a general and simple to apply methodology based on decomposing the solution to the mod ...

American Institute of Physics2017

Blob properties in full-turbulence simulations of the TCV scrape-off layer

Ivo Furno, Benoît Labit, Paolo Ricci, Fabio Riva, Federico David Halpern, Fabio Avino, Federico Nespoli

To investigate blob properties in the tokamak scrape-off layer (SOL), we perform dedicated numerical nonlinear simulations of plasma turbulence in the SOL of a TCV discharge using the Global Braginskii Solver code. A blob detection technique is used for th ...

2017

Non-linear simulations of the TCV Scrape-Off Layer

Ivo Furno, Benoît Labit, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Paolo Ricci, Fabio Riva, Federico David Halpern, Federico Nespoli

To investigate the mechanisms leading to the heat deposition onto the first wall in the Scrape-Off Layer (SOL), we perform dedicated numerical non-linear simulations of the SOL plasma dynamics of a TCV discharge using the GBS code. The simulated parallel h ...

Elsevier Science Bv2017

Plasma shaping effects on tokamak scrape-off layer turbulence

Sébastien Jolliet, Paolo Ricci, Fabio Riva, Emmanuel Lanti

The impact of plasma shaping on tokamak scrape-off layer (SOL) turbulence is investigated. The drift-reduced Braginskii equations are written for arbitrary magnetic geometries, and an analytical equilibrium model is used to introduce the dependence of turb ...

Institute of Physics2017

Overview of the TCV tokamak program: scientific progress and facility upgrades

Patrick Blanchard, Stefano Alberti, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Timothy Goodman, Xavier Llobet, Yves Martin, Jean-Marc Moret, Olivier Sauter, Minh Quang Tran, Henri Weisen, Ivo Furno, Holger Reimerdes, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Stefano Coda, Christian Schlatter, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Alexander Karpushov, Laurie Porte, Yanis Andrebe, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Graves, Duccio Testa, Benoît Labit, Rémy Jacquier, Paolo Ricci, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Fabio Riva, Wouter Vijvers, Josef Kamleitner, Hoang Bao Le, Zhouji Huang, Himank Anand, Falk Hans Braunmüller, Joyeeta Sinha, Claudio Marini, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Federico Nespoli, Oulfa Chellaï, , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Overview of recent physics results from MAST

Wilfred Anthony Cooper, Ricardo Pérez Suárez, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Ben McMillan, Paolo Ricci, Fabio Riva

IOP Publishing Ltd2017

Verification and validation procedures with applications to plasma-edge turbulence simulations

Fabio Riva

Understanding the plasma dynamics in tokamaks is of fundamental importance to reliably predict the performances of future fusion devices. Because of the complex phenomena at play, state-of-the-art simulation codes are needed to investigate the plasma dynam ...

EPFL2017

A methodology for the rigorous verification of Particle-in-Cell simulations

Paolo Ricci, Fabio Riva, Carrie Fiona Beadle

A methodology to perform a rigorous verification of Particle-in-Cell (PIC) simulations is presented, both for assessing the correct implementation of the model equations (code verification), and evaluating the numerical uncertainty affecting the simulation ...

American Institute of Physics2017

Multi-code analysis of scrape-off layer filament dynamics in MAST

Paolo Ricci, Fabio Riva

Four numerical codes are employed to investigate the dynamics of scrape-off layer filaments in tokamak relevant conditions. Experimental measurements were taken in the MAST device using visual camera imaging, which allows the evaluation of the perpendicula ...

Institute of Physics2016

The GBS code for tokamak scrape-off layer simulations

Trach-Minh Tran, Sébastien Jolliet, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Paolo Ricci, Fabio Riva, Annamaria Mosetto, Federico David Halpern, Christoph Wersal

We describe a new version of GBS, a 3D global, flux-driven plasma turbulence code to simulate the turbulent dynamics in the tokamak scrape-off layer (SOL), superseding the code presented by Ricci et al. (2012) [14]. The present work is driven by the object ...

Elsevier2016