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 …

Tokamaks have demonstrated excellent plasma confinement capability because of their
symmetry but has an intrinsic drawback because of their pulsed inductive operation. Efforts …

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 …

Plasmas regimes with improved core energy confinement properties, ie with internal
transport barriers (ITB), provide a possible route towards simultaneous high fusion …

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 …

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 …

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 …