Publications de Hugo De Oliveira

Effect of energetic ions on edge-localized modes in tokamak plasmas

Patrick Blanchard, Timothy Goodman, Jean-Marc Moret, Olivier Sauter, Holger Reimerdes, Stefano Coda, Alexander Karpushov, Yanis Andrebe, Duccio Testa, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Hugo De Oliveira, Claudio Marini, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Anna Teplukhina, Joan Decker, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Umar Sheikh, Cristian Galperti, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh, Dahye Choi, Aylwin Iantchenko, Mengdi Kong, Roberto Maurizio, Francesco Carpanese, Mirko Wensing, Lorenzo Stipani, Federico Pesamosca, Olivier Claude Martin Février, Filippo Bagnato, Cristian Sommariva, Davide Galassi

The most efficient and promising operational regime for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor tokamak is the high-confinement mode. In this regime, however, periodic relaxations of the plasma edge can occur. These edge-localized modes pose a ...

2025

Experimental research on the TCV tokamak

Patrick Blanchard, Stefano Alberti, Ambrogio Fasoli, Timothy Goodman, Yves Martin, Olivier Sauter, Henri Weisen, Ivo Furno, Holger Reimerdes, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Stefano Coda, Alexander Karpushov, Yanis Andrebe, Duccio Testa, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Jérémy Genoud, Hugo De Oliveira, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Antoine Baillod, Joan Decker, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Pedro Andres Molina Cabrera, Umar Sheikh, Cristian Galperti, Marcelo Baquero Ruiz, Aylwin Iantchenko, Mengdi Kong, Francesco Carpanese, Federico Pesamosca, Olivier Claude Martin Février, Simon Van Mulders, Nicola Offeddu, Garance Hélène Salomé Durr-Legoupil-Nicoud, Maurizio Giacomin, Filippo Bagnato, Davide Galassi, Arsène Stéphane Tema Biwole, Lorenzo Martinelli, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Validation of 2D T e and n e measurements made with Helium imaging spectroscopy in the volume of the TCV divertor

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Hugo De Oliveira, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Nicola Offeddu, Filippo Bagnato, Lorenzo Martinelli, Sophie Danielle Angelica Gorno, Claudia Colandrea, Dmytry Mykytchuk, Artur Perek

Multi-spectral imaging of helium atomic emission (HeMSI) has been used to create 2D poloidal maps of T-e and ne in TCV's divertor. To achieve these measurements, TCV's MANTIS multispectral cameras (Perek et al 2019 Rev. Sci. Instrum. 90 123514) simultaneou ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

Improved heat and particle flux mitigation in high core confinement, baffled, alternative divertor configurations in the TCV tokamak

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Holger Reimerdes, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Hugo De Oliveira, Umar Sheikh, Filippo Bagnato, Matteo Vallar, Sophie Danielle Angelica Gorno, Claudia Colandrea, Harshita Raj, Artur Perek

Nitrogen seeded detachment has been achieved in the tokamak a configuration variable (TCV) in alternative divertor configurations (ADCs), namely X-divertor and X-point target, with and without baffles in H-mode plasmas with high core confinement. Both ADCs ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

New insights on divertor parallel flows,E x B drifts, and fluctuations from in situ, two-dimensional probe measurement in the Tokamak a Configuration Variable

Basil Duval, Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Hugo De Oliveira, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Sophie Danielle Angelica Gorno, Artur Perek

In situ, two-dimensional (2D) Langmuir probe measurements across a large part of the TCV outer divertor are reported in L-mode discharges with and without divertor baffles. This provides detailed insights into time averaged profiles, particle fluxes, and f ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

Validation of edge turbulence codes against the TCV-X21 diverted L-mode reference case

Holger Reimerdes, Paolo Ricci, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Hugo De Oliveira, Eric Serre, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Nicola Vianello, Nicola Offeddu, Maurizio Giacomin, Davide Galassi, Sophie Danielle Angelica Gorno, Claudia Colandrea

Self-consistent full-size turbulent-transport simulations of the divertor and scrape-off-layer (SOL) of existing tokamaks have recently become feasible. This enables the direct comparison of turbulence simulations against experimental measurements. In this ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

Validation of edge turbulence codes in a magnetic X-point scenario in TORPEX

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Paolo Ricci, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Hugo De Oliveira, Eric Serre, Marcelo Baquero Ruiz, Nicola Vianello, Fabian Manke, Nicola Offeddu, Maurizio Giacomin, Davide Galassi

American Institute of Physics (AIP)2022

Initial TCV operation with a baffled divertor

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Jean-Marc Moret, Holger Reimerdes, Duccio Testa, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Matthieu Toussaint, Hugo De Oliveira, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Umar Sheikh, Marcelo Baquero Ruiz, Roberto Maurizio, Mirko Wensing, Filippo Bagnato, Davide Galassi, Lorenzo Martinelli, Sophie Danielle Angelica Gorno, Claudia Colandrea, Harshita Raj, Artur Perek

The Tokamak à Configuration Variable (TCV) tokamak is in the midst of an upgrade to further its capability to investigate conventional and alternative divertor configurations. To that end, modular and removable gas baffles have been installed to decrease t ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2021

SOLPS-ITER validation with TCV L-mode discharges

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Holger Reimerdes, Marco Wischmeier, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Hugo De Oliveira, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh, Marcelo Baquero Ruiz, Mirko Wensing, Filippo Bagnato, Lorenzo Martinelli, Sophie Danielle Angelica Gorno, Claudia Colandrea, Artur Perek

This work presents a quantitative test of SOLPS-ITER simulations against tokamak a configuration variable (TCV) L-mode experiments. These simulations account for drifts, currents, kinetic neutrals, and carbon impurities providing the most complete edge tra ...

2021

A fast-moving Langmuir probe array for the divertor of the Tokamak à Configuration Variable

Hugo De Oliveira

In next step tokamaks such as ITER and future fusion power plants, wall materials will be subjected to considerably higher heat and particle fluxes than in present-day machines. Maintaining plasma facing components in good condition and simultaneously assu ...

EPFL2021

Nitrogen-seeded divertor detachment in TCV L-mode plasmas

Basil Duval, Holger Reimerdes, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Hugo De Oliveira, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh, Roberto Maurizio

Most of the detachment experiments done to date on the tokamak a configuration variable (TCV), both in standard and alternative divertor geometries, focused on L-mode integrated core density ramps. In view of extending these studies to high-power, high-con ...

2020

Comparison of high density and nitrogen seeded detachment using SOLPS-ITER simulations of the tokamak a configuration variable

Basil Duval, Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Hugo De Oliveira, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh, Mirko Wensing, Lorenzo Martinelli

First of a kind SOLPS-ITER simulations on tokamak a configuration variable (TCV) that include nitrogen have been performed to model recent nitrogen seeded detachment experiments. Based on spectroscopic measurements, a nitrogen recycling coefficient R-p(N) ...

2020

Experimental verification of X-point potential well formation in unfavorable magnetic field direction

Basil Duval, Holger Reimerdes, Marco Wischmeier, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Hugo De Oliveira, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Mirko Wensing, Sophie Danielle Angelica Gorno, Claudia Colandrea

Recent TCV experiments confirm the predicted formation of an electric potential well, below the magnetic X-point, in configurations with unfavorable

B_t

field direction (ion

\nabla B

drift away from the divertor), that substantially reshapes the typica ...

Elsevier2020

Conduction-based model of the Scrape-Off Layer power sharing between inner and outer divertor in diverted low-density tokamak plasmas

Basil Duval, Holger Reimerdes, Marco Wischmeier, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Hugo De Oliveira, Wouter Vijvers, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Umar Sheikh, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh, Nicola Vianello, Roberto Maurizio, Mirko Wensing

A simple analytic model for the repartition of the Scrape-Off Layer (SOL) exhaust power between the inner and outer divertors in a diverted low-density tokamak plasma is introduced. Electron heat conduction is assumed to dominate the heat transport, from t ...

Elsevier2019

Dependence on plasma shape and plasma fueling for small edge-localized mode regimes in TCV and ASDEX Upgrade

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Timothy Goodman, Jean-Marc Moret, Olivier Sauter, Holger Reimerdes, Stefano Coda, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Alexander Karpushov, Laurie Porte, Yanis Andrebe, Yann Camenen, Thomas Binderup Jensen, Duccio Testa, Benoît Labit, Frédéric Dolizy, Emiliano Fable, Javier García Hernández, Ben McMillan, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Fang Liu, Hugo De Oliveira, Daniele Brunetti, Zhouji Huang, Claudio Marini, Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Federico Nespoli, Anna Teplukhina, Leonardo Pigatto, Joan Decker, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Pedro Andres Molina Cabrera, Umar Sheikh, Alberto Mariani, Emanuele Poli, Cristian Galperti, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Physics research on the TCV tokamak facility: from conventional to alternative scenarios and beyond

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, Javier García Hernández, Rémy Jacquier, Paolo Ricci, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Hugo De Oliveira, Wouter Vijvers, Zhouji Huang, Himank Anand, Joyeeta Sinha, Claudio Marini, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Federico Nespoli, Oulfa Chellaï, Anna Teplukhina, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Langmuir probe electronics upgrade on the tokamak a configuration variable

René Chavan, Pierre Lavanchy, Blaise Marlétaz, Philippe Marmillod, Richard Pitts, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Hugo De Oliveira

A detailed description of the Langmuir probe electronics upgrade for TCV (Tokamak a Configuration Variable) is presented. The number of amplifiers and corresponding electronics has been increased from 48 to 120 in order to simultaneously connect all of the ...

2019

Analysis of wall-embedded Langmuir probe signals in different conditions on the Tokamak à Configuration Variable

Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Hugo De Oliveira, Antoine Baillod

2018

SOL transport and detachment in alternative divertor configurations in TCV L-and H-mode plasmas

Basil Duval, Holger Reimerdes, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Hugo De Oliveira, Wouter Vijvers, Curdin Tobias Wüthrich, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Umar Sheikh, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh, Nicola Vianello, Roberto Maurizio, Mirko Wensing, Davide Galassi, Artur Perek

2018

All natural cork composites with suberin-based polyester and lignocellulosic residue

Véronique Michaud, Hugo De Oliveira

Suberin is an aromatic-aliphatic cross-linked polyester structure which constitutes cell wall structures of cork. It is particularly interesting for its use of monomeric compounds towards renewable bio-based polymers. In this study, the extraction of suber ...

Elsevier2017