EJ Doyle, WA Houlberg, Y Kamada… - Nuclear …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
The understanding and predictive capability of transport physics and plasma confinement is reviewed from the perspective of achieving reactor-scale burning plasmas in the ITER …
F Felici, O Sauter - Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
A computational method is presented to determine the tokamak actuator time evolution (trajectories) required to optimally reach a given point in the tokamak operating space while …
Simultaneous real-time control of multiple MHD instabilities is experimentally demonstrated in the TCV tokamak. Multiple sources of EC heating and current drive, injected through real …
X Litaudon - Plasma physics and controlled fusion, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
Plasmas regimes with improved core energy confinement properties, ie with internal transport barriers (ITB), provide a possible route towards simultaneous high fusion …
T Görler, X Lapillonne, S Brunner, T Dannert… - Physics of …, 2011 - pubs.aip.org
The Eulerian gyrokinetic turbulence code gene has recently been extended to a full torus code. Moreover, it now provides Krook-type sources for gradient-driven simulations where …
Stable, high-performance operation of a tokamak requires several plasma control problems to be handled simultaneously. Moreover, the complex physics which governs the tokamak …
F Ryter, Y Camenen, JC DeBoo… - Plasma physics and …, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
Electron transport in fusion plasmas is intensively studied in coordinated experiments and great progress in physics understanding has been achieved during the past years. A …
Modern fusion research aims at making the energy source of the sun accessible for electricity generation on earth. For this purpose, magnetically confined plasmas must be …
F Felici, HB Le, JI Paley, BP Duval, S Coda… - Fusion Engineering and …, 2014 - Elsevier
One of the key features of the new digital plasma control system installed on the TCV tokamak is the possibility to rapidly design, test and deploy real-time algorithms. With this …