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

S Coda, M Agostini, R Albanese, S Alberti… - Nuclear …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The research program of the TCV tokamak ranges from conventional to advanced-tokamak
scenarios and alternative divertor configurations, to exploratory plasmas driven by …

Nitrogen-seeded divertor detachment in TCV L-mode plasmas

O Février, C Theiler, JR Harrison, CK Tsui… - Plasma Physics and …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Most of the detachment experiments done to date on the tokamak à configuration variable
(TCV), both in standard and alternative divertor geometries, focused on L-mode integrated …

Divertor power load studies for attached L-mode single-null plasmas in TCV

R Maurizio, S Elmore, N Fedorczak, A Gallo… - Nuclear …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper investigates the power loads at the inner and outer divertor targets of attached,
Ohmic L-mode, deuterium plasmas in the TCV tokamak, in various experimental situations …

A review of direct experimental measurements of detachment

J Boedo, AG McLean, DL Rudakov… - Plasma Physics and …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Detached divertor plasmas feature strong radial and parallel gradients of density,
temperature, electric fields and flow over the divertor volume and therefore, sampling the …

Separating the roles of magnetic topology and neutral trapping in modifying the detachment threshold for TCV

A Fil, B Lipschultz, D Moulton, BD Dudson… - Plasma Physics and …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Total flux expansion, a divertor magnetic topology design choice embodied in the Super-X
divertor, is predicted through simple analytic models and SOLPS calculations to reduce the …

Scaling of L-mode heat flux for ITER and COMPASS-U divertors, based on five tokamaks

J Horacek, J Adamek, M Komm, J Seidl… - Nuclear …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
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Three-dimensional plasma edge turbulence simulations of the Mega Ampere Spherical Tokamak and comparison with experimental measurements

F Riva, F Militello, S Elmore, JT Omotani… - Plasma Physics and …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The STORM module of BOUT++(Easy et al 2014 Phys. Plasmas 21 122515) is generalized
to simulate plasma turbulence at the periphery of tokamak devices in diverted configurations …

Suppression of first-wall interaction in negative triangularity plasmas on TCV

W Han, N Offeddu, T Golfinopoulos, C Theiler… - Nuclear …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Magnetically confined fusion plasmas with negative triangularity (δ) exhibit greater L-mode
confinement than with positive δ. Recent experiments in the TCV and DIII-D tokamaks have …

[HTML][HTML] Filamentary velocity scaling validation in the TCV tokamak

CK Tsui, JA Boedo, JR Myra, B Duval, B Labit… - Physics of …, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
A large database of reciprocating probe data from the edge plasma of TCV (Tokamak à
Configuration Variable) is used to test the radial velocity scalings of filaments from analytical …

Resolving interactions between ion-cyclotron range of frequencies heating and the scrape-off layer plasma in EAST using divertor probes

RJ Perkins, JC Hosea, G Taylor, N Bertelli… - Plasma Physics and …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Waves in the ion-cyclotron range of frequencies (ICRF) used for tokamak heating are known
to interact strongly with the scrape-off layer (SOL) plasma, potentially limiting ICRF …