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2024

Journal articles

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The radial localization of the transition from low to high confinement mode in the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak
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M Cavedon, T Happel, P. Hennequin, R Dux, K Höfler, U Plank, T Pütterich, U Stroth, E Viezzer, E Wolfrum
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Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2024, 66 (2), pp.025011. ⟨10.1088/1361-6587/ad1ae3⟩
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Abstract A novel experimental method is applied to localize the initial suppression of turbulence, in the form of density fluctuations, at the transition from the low (L-) to the high (H-) confinement mode in toroidal magnetic fusion plasmas. The high radial and temporal resolution, combined with the unprecedented statistical significance, provided the awaited information on a possible dominant E × B shear layer in L-H transition physics. We show, for the first time, that the H-mode turbulence suppression is initiated at the inner E × B shear layer in the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak possibly shedding light on the causality behind the L-H transition process.
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DOI : 10.1088/1361-6587/ad1ae3
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Poloidal localization of the explosive onset of edge localized modes
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E. Trier, P. Hennequin, M. Maraschek, L. Giannone, B. Vanovac
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Nuclear Fusion, 2024, 64 (2), pp.026004. ⟨10.1088/1741-4326/ad13ae⟩
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In ASDEX Upgrade lower single null H-mode plasmas, the onset of the explosive phase of Edge Localized Modes (ELMs) is poloidally localized in the X-point/outer strike point (X/OSP) region. From this location, ELMs develop on average towards the low-field and high-field sides in typically 100 μ s . An associated magnetic activity localized in the X/OSP region is also observed in-between ELMs, at a lower level than at the ELM onset, and interpreted as being due to perturbed currents connected to the divertor target-s. Its broadband spectra typically extend up to 100 k H z –due to short-lived events of variable frequencies–and are dominated by n = 1 toroidal mode numbers rotating in the counter-current direction.
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DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/ad13ae
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2023

Journal articles

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Safety factor influence on the edge E × B velocity establishment in tokamak plasmas.
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Robin Varennes, Laure Vermare, Xavier Garbet, P Hennequin, G. Dif-Pradalier, Yanick Sarazin, Virginie Grandgirard, Olivier Panico, Peter Donnel, K. Obrejan
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Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2023, 66 (2), pp.025003. ⟨10.1088/1361-6587/ad1653⟩
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This study is motivated by experiments on Tore Supra and WEST tokamaks where a deepening of the radial electric field near the edge is observed when the safety factor decreases. Flux-driven global simulations of Ion Temperature Gradient (ITG) turbulence recover qualitatively the trend observed in the experiments, i.e. the E × B velocity increases when decreasing the safety factor. From these simulations, multiple clues point out the role of turbulence in the establishment of the radial electric field even though the linear growth rate increases with the safety factor. The proposed mechanism to elucidate this phenomenon, backed up by a reduced model, is that the neoclassical friction - particularly sensitive to the safety factor - effectively damps the effect of the turbulent drive.
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DOI : 10.1088/1361-6587/ad1653
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W-band tunable, multi-channel, frequency comb Doppler backscattering diagnostic in the ASDEX-Upgrade tokamak
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P. Molina Cabrera, W. Kasparek, T. Happel, H. Eixenberger, L. Kammerloher, P. Hennequin, K. Höfler, C. Honoré
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Review of Scientific Instruments, 2023, 94 (8), ⟨10.1063/5.0151271⟩
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This article presents the design, implementation, and first data of a uniquely flexible, multi-channel, frequency comb Doppler backscattering diagnostic recently made operational in the ASDEX-Upgrade tokamak 1. It uses a double sideband signal fed into a x6 frequency multiplier to produce a multiple-frequency output spectrum. Seven of these frequencies are simultaneously measured in the receiver via a two-step frequency down-conversion and traditional I/Q demodulation. The frequency comb spectrum is fully tunable to sit anywhere in the W-band. The inter-frequency separation is also uniquely tunable remotely between 0.1 and 6 GHz without any hardware changes. The diagnostic can be operated in both O and X-mode polarizations and at both oblique and normal incidence to the cutoff layer. The time evolution of backscattered signals, in excess of 30 dB, from 7 distinct frequencies sampled simultaneously are presented across an L to H-mode confinement regime transition.
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DOI : 10.1063/5.0151271
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Experimental study of the edge radial electric field in different drift configurations and its role in the access to H-mode at ASDEX Upgrade
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U. Plank, D. Brida, G. Conway, T. Happel, A. Hubbard, T. Pütterich, C. Angioni, M. Cavedon, R. Dux, T. Eich, R. Fischer, P. Hennequin
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Physics of Plasmas, 2023, 30 (4), ⟨10.1063/5.0102763⟩
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The formation of the equilibrium radial electric field (Er) has been studied experimentally at ASDEX Upgrade (AUG) in L-modes of “favorable” (ion ∇ B-drift toward primary X-point) and “unfavorable” (ion ∇ B-drift away from primary X-point) drift configurations, in view of its impact on H-mode access, which changes with drift configurations. Edge electron and ion kinetic profiles and impurity velocity and mean-field Er profiles across the separatrix are investigated, employing new and improved measurement techniques. The experimental results are compared to local neoclassical theory as well as to a simple 1D scrape-off layer (SOL) model. It is found that in L-modes of matched heating power and plasma density, the upstream SOL Er and the main ion pressure gradient in the plasma edge are the same for either drift configurations, whereas the Er well in the confined plasma is shallower in unfavorable compared to the favorable drift configuration. The contributions of toroidal and poloidal main ion flows to Er, which are inferred from local neoclassical theory and the experiment, cannot account for these observed differences. Furthermore, it is found that in the L-mode, the intrinsic toroidal edge rotation decreases with increasing collisionality and it is co-current in the banana-plateau regime for all different drift configurations at AUG. This gives rise to a possible interaction of parallel Pfirsch–Schlüter flows in the SOL with the confined plasma. Thus, the different H-mode power threshold for the two drift configurations cannot be explained in the same way at AUG as suggested by LaBombard et al. [Phys. Plasmas 12, 056111 (2005)] for Alcator C-Mod. Finally, comparisons of Er profiles in favorable and unfavorable drift configurations at the respective confinement transitions show that also the Er gradients are all different, which indirectly indicates a different type or strength of the characteristic edge turbulence in the two drift configurations.
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DOI : 10.1063/5.0102763
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Turbulence characterization during the suppression of edge-localized modes by magnetic perturbations on ASDEX Upgrade
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N. Leuthold, W. Suttrop, M. Willensdorfer, G. Birkenmeier, D. Brida, M. Cavedon, M. Dunne, G.D. Conway, R. Fischer, L. Gil, T. Happel, P. Hennequin, A. Kappatou, A. Kirk, P. Manz, R.M. Mcdermott, J. Vicente, H. Zohm, The Asdex Upgrade Team
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Nuclear Fusion, 2023, 63 (4), pp.046014. ⟨10.1088/1741-4326/acb1c5⟩
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Abstract We study localized edge turbulence in the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak that appears if resonant magnetic perturbations (RMP) are applied to suppress edge localized modes (ELMs) in the high confinement mode. The concomitant density fluctuations are detected by microwave reflectometry at the outboard midplane. Two modes can be distinguished, (a) a broadband fluctuation below a threshold of the RMP field amplitude, and (b) a narrow-band quasi-coherent mode (QCM) above the threshold. The broadband fluctuation is toroidally spread out but disappears at the toroidal position of maximum E × B shear in the gradient region. Temporal and spatial correlation along field lines of the midplane density fluctuation and the divertor particle flux suggests that this mode is producing significant particle transport across the gradient region and into the divertor, hence contributing to the plasma density reduction that is often observed when applying RMP fields (the so-called ‘pump-out’ effect). The QCM is also toroidally localized, its radial extent grows with increasing RMP field amplitude, and leads to further increased divertor particle flux compared to the broadband mode. Our observations suggest that both modes not only play an important role in keeping the plasma density stationary in the absence of ELMs but also to reduce the plasma pressure such that the plasma edge becomes stable against ELMs.
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DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/acb1c5
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Conference papers

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Transport and zonal flows dynamics in flux-driven interchange & drift waves turbulence
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Olivier Panico, Yanick Sarazin, Pascale Hennequin, Özgür D. Gürcan
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49th European Conference on Plasma Physics, European Physical Society (EPS), Jul 2023, Bordeaux, France
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Cross-field transport, that controls the energy confinement time in tokamaks, is mainly driven by turbulence. In L-mode edge plasmas, the interchange and drift waves instabilities are expected to be dominant. The first one is linked to the magnetic curvature while the second derives from the parallel conductivity [1]. It is observed that the resulting ion-scale turbulence can self-organize into zonal flows (ZFs) that participate efficiently to its saturation [2, 3]. More recently, it has been observed that ZFs can structure into staircases [4], hence producing a set of micro-barriers that can efficiently mitigate avalanche transport. In this work, the issues of ZFs generation and impact on transport are addressed by means of a reduced flux-driven nonlinear model that features both interchange and drift waves instabilities [5, 6]. The linear properties of both instabilities are controlled by two plasma parameters, the mean curvature g of the magnetic field, and the adiabaticity parameter C that scales like the square of the parallel wave vector divided by the electron-ion collision frequency. It is shown here that albeit the interchange parameter is controlling the structuration into staircases, the adiabaticity parameter controls the turbulent energy that gets stored in the flows. Moreover, the confinement time normalized to a mixing length estimate exhibits the same dependencies as the energy balance between turbulent modes and zonal flows, attesting the efficiency of nonlinearly generated flows to mitigate turbulent transport.
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Poster communications

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Gaining insight into E × B flow control in tokamaks
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S Rienäcker, P. Hennequin, R Varennes, C Honoré, J P Gunn
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TTF2023 annual meeting - 27th Joint EU-US Transport Task Force Meeting, Sep 2023, Nancy, France.
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2022

Journal articles

titre
Role of avalanche transport in competing drift wave and interchange turbulence
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Philippe Ghendrih, Guilhem Dif-Pradalier, Olivier Panico, Yanick Sarazin, Hugo Bufferand, Guido Ciraolo, Peter Donnel, Nicolas Fedorczak, Xavier Garbet, Virginie Grandgirard, Pascale Hennequin, Eric Serre, Patrick Tamain
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Journal of Physics: Conference Series, 2022, 2397, pp.012018. ⟨10.1088/1742-6596/2397/1/012018⟩
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We complete the 2D 2-fields turbulence model previously used with an interchange-like instability by slightly modifying the parallel loss terms to drive drift wave instabilities. We show that the instability driven by temperature fluctuations of the sheath losses is identical to that of the drift wave turbulence. The linear analysis is performed and used to select control parameters that yield identical maximum growth rates for the interchange alone and drift wave alone instability. Combining the two instabilities doubles the maximum growth rate. The non-linear simulations are used to analyse the SOL width. The simulations allow one to identify a low field side SOL region where interchange and drift wave are unstable and a high field side SOL region where only the drift wave is unstable. The SOL profiles appear exponential in the region close to the source but depart from a simple exponential fall-off in the far SOL. The low field side SOL width is found to be larger in the interchange alone case, slightly smaller when both instabilities are present and finally narrower when only the drift waves. For the high field side SOL, without interchange, the drift wave SOL width is observed to be identical to that on the low field side and larger than that when both instabilities at play. The Sherwood dimensionless parameter, ratio of convective particle flux divided by the diffusive particle flux, is used to compare the efficiency of turbulent transport. The profiles of the Sherwood parameter for time and flux surface averaged transport indicate that turbulent transport is dominant close to the separatrix but is less effective towards the far SOL. The Sherwood parameter evolution, determined with the flux-surface averaged transport, indicates that outward avalanche transport with corrugations governs the case with interchange only. When combining the two instabilities, outward avalanche transport is less pronounced and inward avalanche transport is observed, reducing the overall turbulent transport efficiency. The avalanche transport with drift waves only compared to interchange only is found to be inhibited.
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DOI : 10.1088/1742-6596/2397/1/012018
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Progress from ASDEX Upgrade experiments in preparing the physics basis of ITER operation and DEMO scenario development
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U. Stroth, D. Aguiam, E. Alessi, C. Angioni, N. Arden, R. Arredondo Parra, V. Artigues, O. Asunta, M. Balden, V. Bandaru, A. Banon-Navarro, K. Behler, A. Bergmann, M. Bergmann, J. Bernardo, M. Bernert, A. Biancalani, R. Bielajew, R. Bilato, G. Birkenmeier, T. Blanken, V. Bobkov, A. Bock, T. Body, T. Bolzonella, N. Bonanomi, A. Bortolon, B. Böswirth, C. Bottereau, A. Bottino, H. van den Brand, M. Brenzke, S. Brezinsek, D. Brida, F. Brochard, C. Bruhn, J. Buchanan, A. Buhler, A. Burckhart, Y. Camenen, B. Cannas, P. Cano Megias, D. Carlton, M. Carr, P. Carvalho, C. Castaldo, M. Cavedon, C. Cazzaniga, C. Challis, A. Chankin, C. Cianfarani, F. Clairet, S. Coda, R. Coelho, J.W. Coenen, L. Colas, G. Conway, S. Costea, D. Coster, T. Cote, A.J. Creely, G. Croci, D.J. Cruz Zabala, G. Cseh, A. Czarnecka, I. Cziegler, O. D’arcangelo, A. Dal Molin, P. David, C. Day, M. de Baar, P. de Marné, R. Delogu, S. Denk, P. Denner, A. Di Siena, J.J. Dominguez Palacios Durán, D. Dunai, A. Drenik, M. Dreval, R. Drube, M. Dunne, B.P. Duval, R. Dux, T. Eich, S. Elgeti, A. Encheva, K. Engelhardt, B. Erdös, I. Erofeev, B. Esposito, E. Fable, M. Faitsch, U. Fantz, M. Farnik, H. Faugel, F. Felici, O. Ficker, S. Fietz, A. Figueredo, R. Fischer, O. Ford, L. Frassinetti, M. Fröschle, G. Fuchert, J.C. Fuchs, H. Fünfgelder, S. Futatani, K. Galazka, J. Galdon-Quiroga, D. Gallart Escolà, A. Gallo, Y. Gao, S. Garavaglia, M. Garcia Muñoz, B. Geiger, L. Giannone, S. Gibson, L. Gil, E. Giovannozzi, S. Glöggler, M. Gobbin, J. Gonzalez Martin, T. Goodman, G. Gorini, T. Görler, D. Gradic, G. Granucci, A. Gräter, H. Greuner, M. Griener, M. Groth, A. Gude, L. Guimarais, S. Günter, G. Haas, A.H. Hakola, C. Ham, T. Happel, N. den Harder, G. Harrer, J. Harrison, V. Hauer, T. Hayward-Schneider, B. Heinemann, T. Hellsten, S. Henderson, P. Hennequin, A. Herrmann, E. Heyn, F. Hitzler, J. Hobirk, K. Höfler, J.H. Holm, M. Hölzl, C. Hopf, L. Horvath, T. Höschen, A. Houben, A. Hubbard, A. Huber, K. Hunger, V. Igochine, M. Iliasova, T. Ilkei, K. Insulander Björk, C. Ionita-Schrittwieser, I. Ivanova-Stanik, W. Jacob, N. Jaksic, F. Janky, A. Jansen van Vuuren, A. Jardin, F. Jaulmes, F. Jenko, T. Jensen, E. Joffrin, A. Kallenbach, S. Kálvin, M. Kantor, A. Kappatou, O. Kardaun, J. Karhunen, C.-P. Käsemann, S. Kasilov, A. Kendl, W. Kernbichler, E. Khilkevitch, A. Kirk, S. Kjer Hansen, V. Klevarova, G. Kocsis, M. Koleva, M. Komm, M. Kong, A. Krämer-Flecken, K. Krieger, A. Krivska, O. Kudlacek, T. Kurki-Suonio, B. Kurzan, B. Labit, K. Lackner, F. Laggner, A. Lahtinen, P.T. Lang, P. Lauber, N. Leuthold, L. Li, J. Likonen, O. Linder, B. Lipschultz, Y. Liu, A. Lohs, Z. Lu, T. Luda Di Cortemiglia, N.C. Luhmann, T. Lunt, A. Lyssoivan, T. Maceina, J. Madsen, A. Magnanimo, H. Maier, J. Mailloux, R. Maingi, O. Maj, E. Maljaars, P. Manas, A. Mancini, A. Manhard, P. Mantica, M. Mantsinen, P. Manz, M. Maraschek, C. Marchetto, L. Marrelli, P. Martin, A. Martitsch, F. Matos, M. Mayer, M.-L. Mayoral, D. Mazon, P.J. Mccarthy, R. Mcdermott, R. Merkel, A. Merle, D. Meshcheriakov, H. Meyer, D. Milanesio, P. Molina Cabrera, F. Monaco, M. Muraca, F. Nabais, V. Naulin, R. Nazikian, R.D. Nem, A. Nemes-Czopf, G. Neu, R. Neu, A.H. Nielsen, S.K. Nielsen, T. Nishizawa, M. Nocente, J.-M. Noterdaeme, I. Novikau, S. Nowak, M. Oberkofler, R. Ochoukov, J. Olsen, F. Orain, F. Palermo, O. Pan, G. Papp, I. Paradela Perez, A. Pau, G. Pautasso, C. Paz-Soldan, P. Petersson, P. Piovesan, C. Piron, U. Plank, B. Plaum, B. Plöck, V. Plyusnin, G. Pokol, E. Poli, L. Porte, T. Pütterich, M. Ramisch, J. Rasmussen, G. Ratta, S. Ratynskaia, G. Raupp, D. Réfy, M. Reich, F. Reimold, D. Reiser, M. Reisner, D. Reiter, T. Ribeiro, R. Riedl, J. Riesch, D. Rittich, J.F. Rivero Rodriguez, G. Rocchi, P. Rodriguez-Fernandez, M. Rodriguez-Ramos, V. Rohde, G. Ronchi, A. Ross, M. Rott, M. Rubel, D.A. Ryan, F. Ryter, S. Saarelma, M. Salewski, A. Salmi, O. Samoylov, L. Sanchis Sanchez, J. Santos, O. Sauter, G. Schall, K. Schlüter, K. Schmid, O. Schmitz, P.A. Schneider, R. Schrittwieser, M. Schubert, C. Schuster, T. Schwarz-Selinger, J. Schweinzer, E. Seliunin, A. Shabbir, A. Shalpegin, S. Sharapov, U. Sheikh, A. Shevelev, G. Sias, M. Siccinio, B. Sieglin, A. Sigalov, A. Silva, C. Silva, D. Silvagni, J. Simpson, S. Sipilä, E. Smigelskis, A. Snicker, E. Solano, C. Sommariva, C. Sozzi, G. Spizzo, M. Spolaore, A. Stegmeir, M. Stejner, J. Stober, E. Strumberge, G. Suarez Lopez, H.-J. Sun, W. Suttrop, E. Sytova, T. Szepesi, B. Tál, T. Tala, G. Tardini, M. Tardocchi, D. Terranova, M. Teschke, E. Thorén, W. Tierens, D. Told, W. Treutterer, G. Trevisan, E. Trier, M. Tripský, M. Usoltceva, M. Valisa, M. Valovic, M. van Zeeland, F. Vannini, B. Vanovac, P. Varela, S. Varoutis, N. Vianello, J. Vicente, G. Verdoolaege, T. Vierle, E. Viezzer, I. Voitsekhovitch, U. von Toussaint, D. Wagner, X. Wang, M. Weiland, A.E. White, M. Willensdorfer, B. Wiringer, M. Wischmeier, R. Wolf, E. Wolfrum, Q. Yang, Q. Yu, R. Zagórski, I. Zammuto, T. Zehetbauer, W. Zhang, W. Zholobenko, M. Zilker, A. Zito, H. Zohm, S. Zoletnik, The Eurofusion Mst1 Team
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Nuclear Fusion, 2022, 62 (4), pp.042006. ⟨10.1088/1741-4326/ac207f⟩
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Abstract An overview of recent results obtained at the tokamak ASDEX Upgrade (AUG) is given. A work flow for predictive profile modelling of AUG discharges was established which is able to reproduce experimental H-mode plasma profiles based on engineering parameters only. In the plasma center, theoretical predictions on plasma current redistribution by a dynamo effect were confirmed experimentally. For core transport, the stabilizing effect of fast ion distributions on turbulent transport is shown to be important to explain the core isotope effect and improves the description of hollow low- Z impurity profiles. The L–H power threshold of hydrogen plasmas is not affected by small helium admixtures and it increases continuously from the deuterium to the hydrogen level when the hydrogen concentration is raised from 0 to 100%. One focus of recent campaigns was the search for a fusion relevant integrated plasma scenario without large edge localised modes (ELMs). Results from six different ELM-free confinement regimes are compared with respect to reactor relevance: ELM suppression by magnetic perturbation coils could be attributed to toroidally asymmetric turbulent fluctuations in the vicinity of the separatrix. Stable improved confinement mode plasma phases with a detached inner divertor were obtained using a feedback control of the plasma β . The enhanced D α H-mode regime was extended to higher heating power by feedback controlled radiative cooling with argon. The quasi-coherent exhaust regime was developed into an integrated scenario at high heating power and energy confinement, with a detached divertor and without large ELMs. Small ELMs close to the separatrix lead to peeling-ballooning stability and quasi continuous power exhaust. Helium beam density fluctuation measurements confirm that transport close to the separatrix is important to achieve the different ELM-free regimes. Based on separatrix plasma parameters and interchange-drift-Alfvén turbulence, an analytic model was derived that reproduces the experimentally found important operational boundaries of the density limit and between L- and H-mode confinement. Feedback control for the X-point radiator (XPR) position was established as an important element for divertor detachment control. Stable and detached ELM-free phases with H-mode confinement quality were obtained when the XPR was moved 10 cm above the X-point. Investigations of the plasma in the future flexible snow-flake divertor of AUG by means of first SOLPS-ITER simulations with drifts activated predict beneficial detachment properties and the activation of an additional strike point by the drifts.
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DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/ac207f
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Operating a full tungsten actively cooled tokamak: overview of WEST first phase of operation
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J. Bucalossi, J. Achard, O. Agullo, T. Alarcon, L. Allegretti, H. Ancher, G. Antar, S. Antusch, V. Anzallo, C. Arnas, D. Arranger, J.F. Artaud, M.H. Aumeunier, S.G. Baek, X. Bai, J. Balbin, C. Balorin, T. Barbui, A. Barbuti, J. Barlerin, V. Basiuk, T. Batal, O. Baulaigue, A. Bec, M. Bécoulet, E. Benoit, E. Benard, J.M. Benard, N. Bertelli, E. Bertrand, P. Beyer, J. Bielecki, P. Bienvenu, R. Bisson, V. Bobkov, G. Bodner, C. Bottereau, C. Bouchand, F. Bouquey, C. Bourdelle, J. Bourg, S. Brezinsek, F. Brochard, C. Brun, V. Bruno, H. Bufferand, A. Bureau, S. Burles, Y. Camenen, B. Cantone, E. Caprin, S. Carpentier, G. Caulier, N. Chanet, O. Chellai, Y. Chen, M. Chernyshova, P. Chmielewski, W. Choe, A. Chomiczewska, G. Ciraolo, F. Clairet, J. Coenen, L. Colas, G. Colledani, J. Colnel, P. Coquillat, E. Corbel, Y. Corre, S. Costea, X. Courtois, T. Czarski, R. Daniel, J. Daumas, M. de Combarieu, G. de Temmerman, P. de Vries, C. Dechelle, F. Deguara, R. Dejarnac, J.M. Delaplanche, L.F. Delgado-Aparicio, E. Delmas, L. Delpech, C. Desgranges, P. Devynck, S. Di Genova, R. Diab, A. Diallo, M. Diez, G. Dif-Pradalier, M. Dimitrova, B. Ding, T. Dittmar, L. Doceul, M. Domenes, D. Douai, H. Dougnac, X. Duan, L. Dubus, N. Dumas, R. Dumont, F. Durand, A. Durif, A. Durocher, F. Durodié, A. Ekedahl, D. Elbeze, S. Ertmer, A. Escarguel, F. Escourbiac, K. Ezato, F. Faisse, N. Faure, N. Fedorczak, P. Fejoz, C. Fenzi-Bonizec, F. Ferlay, M. Firdaouss, L. Fleury, D. Flouquet, A. Gallo, Y. Gao, X. Garbet, J. Garcia, J.L. Gardarein, L. Gargiulo, P. Garibaldi, S. Garitta, J. Gaspar, E. Gauthier, P. Gavila, S. Gazzotti, F. Gely, M. Geynet, S. Gharafi, P. Ghendrih, I. Giacalone, C. Gil, S. Ginoux, S. Girard, E. Giroux, G. Giruzzi, C. Goletto, M. Goniche, T. Gray, E. Grelier, H. Greuner, E. Grigore, C. Grisolia, A. Grosjean, A. Grosman, D. Guibert, D. Guilhem, C. Guillemaut, B. Guillermin, R. Guirlet, J.P. Gunn, Y. Gunsu, T. Gyergyek, A. Hakola, J. Harris, J.C. Hatchressian, W. Helou, P. Hennequin, C. Hernandez, K. Hill, J. Hillairet, T. Hirai, G.T. Hoang, M. Houry, T. Hutter, F. Imbeaux, N. Imbert, I. Ivanova-Stanik, R. Jalageas, A. Jardin, L. Jaubert, G. Jiolat, A. Jonas, P. Joubert, A. Kirschner, C. Klepper, M. Komm, M. Koubiti, J. Kovacic, M. Kozeiha, K. Krieger, K. Krol, B. Lacroix, L. Laguardia, V. Lamaison, H. Laqua, C. Lau, Y. Lausenaz, R. Lé, M. Le Bohec, N. Lefevre, N. Lemoine, E. Lerche, M. Lewerentz, Y. Li, M. Li, A. Liang, P. Linczuk, C. Linsmeier, M. Lipa, X. Litaudon, X. Liu, J. Llorens, T. Loarer, A. Loarte, T. Loewenhoff, G. Lombard, J. Lore, P. Lorenzetto, P. Lotte, M. Lozano, B. Lu, R. Lunsford, G. Luo, P. Magaud, P. Maget, J.F. Mahieu, P. Maini, P. Malard, K. Malinowski, P. Manas, L. Manenc, Y. Marandet, J.L. Marechal, S. Marek, C. Martin, E. Martin, A. Martinez, P. Martino, D. Mazon, P. Messina, L. Meunier, D. Midou, Y. Mineo, M. Missilian, R. Mitteau, B. Mitu, P. Mollard, V. Moncada, T. Mondiere, J. Morales, M. Moreau, P. Moreau, Y Moudden, G. Moureau, D. Mouyon, M. Muraglia, A. Nagy, T. Nakano, E. Nardon, A. Neff, F. Nespoli, J. Nichols, S. Nicollet, R. Nouailletas, M. Ono, V. Ostuni, C. Parish, H. Park, H. Parrat, J.Y. Pascal, B. Pégourié, F.P. Pellissier, Y. Peneliau, M. Peret, Y. Peysson, E. Pignoly, G. Pintsuk, R. Pitts, C. Pocheau, C. Portafaix, M. Poulos, P. Prochet, A. Puig Sitjes, M. Rasinski, G. Raup, X. Regal-Mezin, C. Reux, B. Riccardi, J. Rice, M. Richou, F. Rigollet, H. Roche, J. Romazanov, C. Ruset, R. Sabot, A. Saille, R. Sakamoto, T. Salmon, F. Samaille, A. Santagiustina, B. Santraine, Y. Sarazin, E. Serre, H. Shin, S. Shiraiwai, Ja. Signoret, Je. Signoret, A. Simonin, O. Skalli Fettachi, Y. Song, A. Spring, P. Spuig, S. Sridhar, B. Stratton, C. Talatizi, P. Tamain, R. Tatali, M. Téna, A. Torre, L. Toulouse, J.M. Travère, W. Treutterer, E. Tsitrone, E. Unterberg, G. Urbanczyk, D. van Eester, G. van Rooij, S. Vartanian, J.M. Verger, L. Vermare, D. Vézinet, N. Vignal, B. Vincent, S. Vives, D. Volpe, G. Wallace, E. Wang, L. Wang, Yi. Wang, Yo. Wang, T. Wauters, B. Wirth, M. Wirtz, A. Wojenski, J. Wright, M. Xu, Q. Yang, H. Yang, B. Zago, B. Zhang, X. Zhang, X. Zou
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Nuclear Fusion, 2022, 62 (4), pp.042007. ⟨10.1088/1741-4326/ac2525⟩
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Abstract WEST is an MA class superconducting, actively cooled, full tungsten (W) tokamak, designed to operate in long pulses up to 1000 s. In support of ITER operation and DEMO conceptual activities, key missions of WEST are: (i) qualification of high heat flux plasma-facing components in integrating both technological and physics aspects in relevant heat and particle exhaust conditions, particularly for the tungsten monoblocks foreseen in ITER divertor; (ii) integrated steady-state operation at high confinement, with a focus on power exhaust issues. During the phase 1 of operation (2017–2020), a set of actively cooled ITER-grade plasma facing unit prototypes was integrated into the inertially cooled W coated startup lower divertor. Up to 8.8 MW of RF power has been coupled to the plasma and divertor heat flux of up to 6 MW m −2 were reached. Long pulse operation was started, using the upper actively cooled divertor, with a discharge of about 1 min achieved. This paper gives an overview of the results achieved in phase 1. Perspectives for phase 2, operating with the full capability of the device with the complete ITER-grade actively cooled lower divertor, are also described.
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DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/ac2525
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Formation of the radial electric field profile in the WEST tokamak
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L. Vermare, P. Hennequin, C. Honoré, M. Peret, Guilhem Dif-Pradalier, X. Garbet, J. Gunn, C. Bourdelle, F. Clairet, R. Varennes, J. Morales, R. Dumont, M. Goniche, P. Maget
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Nuclear Fusion, 2022, 62 (2), pp.026002. ⟨10.1088/1741-4326/ac3c85⟩
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DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/ac3c85
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Conference papers

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Comprehensive experimental turbulence measurements for scale-resolved multichannel gyrokinetic code validation
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K. Höfler, T Görler, T. Happel, P. Hennequin, Lechte C., Cabrera P. A. Molina, Bielajew R. S., Conway G. D., Jenko F., Mcdermott R. M., Schneider P. A., White A. E., U. Stroth
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TTF 2022: 2022 US-EU Joint Transport Task Force Workshop, Apr 2022, Santa Rosa, California, United States
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Turbulence is the main driver of heat and particle transport which deteriorates the performance of fusion plasmas. To design turbulence optimised devices, simulation codes need to be validated by experiments. Validation work has already been done for a single or a small number of turbulence observables. A comprehensive set of experimental turbulence data is measured on ASDEX Upgrade for two different plasma scenarios where the electron gradient length is changed by means of ECRH. It includes wavenumber spectra, density and temperature fluctuation amplitudes and radial correlation lengths, the poloidal dependence of the velocity perpendicular to the magnetic field as well as the cross-phase between density and temperature fluctuations. These quantities are measured by Doppler reflectometers in both X-mode and O-mode polarization and an electron cyclotron emission radiometer. They are compared to gyrokinetic turbulence simulations from the GENE code. For this purpose synthetic diagnostic modeling is applied to account for diagnostic effects on measurements. The work shows the encouraging example of code validation where a remarkable number of measured physics quantities is successfully reproduced by the code. We highlight the simultaneous agreement between experiment and simulation of all investigated turbulence quantities. This study provides a sound scientific justification for using codes such as GENE in the design of future fusion reactors.
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2021

Journal articles

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Approaching detachment in I-mode—response of core confinement and the edge pedestal in the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak
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T. Happel, M.L. Reinke, D. Silvagni, M. Bernert, O. Grover, Pascale Hennequin, A.E. Hubbard, U. Plank, E. Trier, D. Brida, P. David, R. Fischer, L. Gil, K. Höfler, P. Manz, R.M. Mcdermott, A. Merle, U. Stroth, E. Viezzer, M. Willensdorfer
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Nuclear Fusion, 2021, 61 (3), pp.036026. ⟨10.1088/1741-4326/abd7b7⟩
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Experiments on nitrogen assisted divertor detachment in the improved energy confinement mode (I-mode) are reported from the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak. When nitrogen is introduced into the divertor and radiation losses cool the divertor plasma down, a loss of core confinement is observed, concomitant with an increase in low frequency edge fluctuation levels. The loss in confinement can be compensated and the I-mode can be maintained by additional heating power input. Detachment of the inner divertor leg has been observed for the first time in an I-mode discharge. The outer divertor leg remains attached in these experiments. Good energy confinement properties (H98(y, 2) = 0.9) during the detachment of the inner divertor leg are reported.
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DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/abd7b7
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Overview of the isotope effects in the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak
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P A Schneider, Pascale Hennequin, N Bonanomi, M Dunne, G D Conway, U Plank
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Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2021, 63 (6), pp.064006. ⟨10.1088/1361-6587/abf540⟩
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In recent years, measurements on the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak and modelling performed for plasmas with hydrogen (H) and deuterium (D) as the main gas have improved our understanding of the ion mass dependencies in fusion plasmas. The observed isotope effects can be explained with established physics processes which highlight the importance of treating heat transport with coupled electron and ion heat channels. In the core of electron heated L-mode plasmas, the mass dependence of the electron–ion equipartition results in a reduction of $q_\textrm{i}/q_\textrm{e}$ with increasing ion mass. Combined with higher profile stiffness in the ions compared to the electrons, this results in improved core confinement for higher ion masses. At the edge of L-mode plasmas where a higher collisionality is observed, parallel electron dynamics is fundamental for turbulence. The parallel electron dynamics term in the gyrokinetic equations directly depends on $m_\textrm{i}/m_\textrm{e}$, resulting in a different kinetic response with different ion mass. Higher turbulent fluxes are expected with lower ion mass. This is consistent with the difference in $L_{n\textrm{e}}$ observed in the experiment. The mass dependence of turbulent transport in the L-mode edge has direct consequences for the L–H transition. More heating power is required to enter the H-mode at lower mass ($P_\textrm{L-H}^\textrm{H}\sim 2 P_\textrm{L-H}^\textrm{D}$). This is expected if the critical E × B shearing rate $\gamma_{E\times B}$ is important for the transition from L to H mode. In the H-mode pedestal, $\gamma_{E\times B}$ remains important to regulate the turbulent transport. The electrons do not contribute to $\gamma_{E\times B}$ and the enhanced equipartition for lower ion masses causes a shift from the ion channel to the electron channel in the absolute heat fluxes. Consequently, the inter edge localised mode (ELM) transport is found to be higher with lower isotope mass. This enhanced transport in H can prevent the pedestal from reaching the peeling–ballooning stability boundary with engineering parameters where D plasmas are peeling–ballooning unstable. Increasing the triangularity reduces the inter ELM transport in H stronger than in comparable D plasmas. For matched pedestal top and matched heat sources, the core heat transport is found to be similar for H and D when the fast-ion content is low. When ion temperature gradient turbulence stabilisation by fast ions becomes relevant, the mass dependent fast-ion slowing down results in higher fast-ion content in D and therefore in a reduction of ion heat transport in the core. Then, even for matched pedestals $\tau_\textrm{E}^\textrm{D}\gt\tau_\textrm{E}^\textrm{H}$.
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DOI : 10.1088/1361-6587/abf540
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Fast-ion pressure dominating the mass dependence of the core heat transport in ASDEX Upgrade H-modes
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P.A. Schneider, N. Bonanomi, C. Angioni, M. Weiland, M. Cavedon, P. David, R. Fischer, Pascale Hennequin, J. Hobirk, A. Kappatou, B. Kurzan, R.M. Mcdermott, U. Plank, T. Pütterich, F. Ryter, M. Willensdorfer
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Nuclear Fusion, 2021, 61 (3), pp.036033. ⟨10.1088/1741-4326/abd95e⟩
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H-mode plasmas in ASDEX Upgrade (AUG) using different hydrogen isotopes are analysed with respect to their core transport properties. The experimental results are discussed and we present gyrokinetic simulations which are able to reproduce the experimental observations. A novel strategy allows us to disentangle core and pedestal physics by mitigating the isotopic dependence of pedestal properties while keeping the heat and particle sources the same. Matched pedestal profiles are obtained between hydrogen (H) and deuterium (D) plasmas when increasing the triangularity in H plasmas with respect to D plasmas. In the core of these plasmas little isotopic dependence is observed when the fast-ion content is low Wfast/Wth < 1/3. Quasi-linear modelling with TGLF reproduces the experimental trends under these conditions. For larger fast-ion fractions an isotope dependence is observed in the core heat transport. This is related to a difference in fast-ion stabilization of turbulent transport. The fast-ion pressure in H and D plasmas is different due to the mass dependence in the fast-ion slowing down time as well as to operational restrictions when heating with H neutral beam injection (H-NBI) or D-NBI. Typically, Wfast,H < 1/2Wfast,D for comparable NBI heating powers in AUG. The gyrokinetic analysis shows that linear growth rates of ITG modes do not show a pure gyro-Bohm mass dependence, but follow the experimentally observed mass dependence when taking collisions, EM-effects and fast ions into account. Non-linear gyrokinetic simulations reproduce the experimental heat fluxes for different isotopes when fast ions are included. This highlights the role of the fast-ion pressure as a key element to explain the observed differences in the core of H and D plasmas.
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DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/abd95e
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Poloidally resolved measurements of the perpendicular propagation velocity of density fluctuations in ASDEX Upgrade L-mode plasmas
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K Höfler, T Happel, Pascale Hennequin, U Stroth, M Cavedon, R Dux, R Fischer, R Mcdermott, E Poli, C Schuster, E Wolfrum
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Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2021, 63 (3), pp.035020. ⟨10.1088/1361-6587/abd896⟩
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Poloidal asymmetries of the propagation velocity of density fluctuations perpendicular to the magnetic field measured with Doppler reflectometry have been reported in several magnetic confinement plasma devices. Careful analysis of a large variety of different low confinement mode plasma scenarios performed at the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak does not reveal such an asymmetry outside the uncertainties of the evaluation process of the measurement data. The perpendicular velocity is investigated between mid-radius and the plasma edge and follows the poloidal dependence of the E × B drift velocity regardless of the probed turbulence structure size. Compared to measurements of a charge exchange recombination spectroscopy diagnostic this points towards a significantly smaller phase velocity than the E × B drift velocity. The analysis technique is presented in a representative discharge together with a sensitivity study of the impact of density, magneto hydrodynamic equilibrium and diagnostic alignment on the interpretation of the measured Doppler shift using ray tracing and thus on poloidal asymmetries. Three more highly different plasma scenarios with poloidally symmetric velocity profiles are shown.
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DOI : 10.1088/1361-6587/abd896
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Poster communications

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Formation of the radial electric field profile in WEST tokamak
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Laure Vermare, Guilhem Dif-Pradalier, Pascale Hennequin, James Paul Gunn, Xavier Garbet, Jean-Francois Artaud, Ozgur Gurcan, Clarisse Bourdelle, Frédéric Clairet, Nicolas Fedorczak, Cyrille Honoré, Jorge Morales, Yanick Sarazin, Virginie Grandgirard, Robin Varennes, Didier Vezinet, Mathieu Peret, Rémi Dumont, Marc Goniche, Patrick Maget
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FEC 2020 - 28th IAEA fusion energy conference, May 2021, E-Conference, France.
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The shear of the radial electric field at the edge is widely accepted to be responsible for turbulence reduction in edge transport barriers and thought as a key ingredient of the improved confinement of H-mode plasmas. Nevertheless, a full understanding of how its profile builds up at the edge is still lacking. It can either be formulated as the result of a competition between several mechanisms that generate and damp flows or as the result of a non-ambipolar particle flux, which enhances radial charge separation imposing a radial electric field profile. Among possible mechanisms, one can think of turbulence generated flow via Reynolds stress, ion orbit losses, toroidal magnetic ripple and the effect of neutral friction at the edge. Based on previous results obtained on Tore Supra, the radial profile of the perpendicular flow expected in WEST can be separated in three spatial areas. Inside ρ = 0.8, the radial electric field is dominated by losses of thermal ions in the magnetic ripple while between 0.7 < ρ < 0.95, a competition between this latter and the generation of large scale flows by turbulence appears as a possible explanation of the measured poloidal asymmetry of the mean perpendicular velocity. In addition, edge conditions such as contact points and parallel dynamics in the scrape-off-layer (SOL) influence the edge profiles beyond ρ = 0.9 (3). This contribution presents unexpected differences in the radial electric field profile observed in WEST between Lower Single Null (LSN) and Upper Single Null (USN) configurations and a study of the competition between specific mechanisms playing a role in the formation of this profile.
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2020

Journal articles

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Connecting the global H-mode power threshold to the local radial electric field at ASDEX Upgrade
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M. Cavedon, G. Birkenmeier, T. Pütterich, F. Ryter, E. Viezzer, E. Wolfrum, R. Dux, T. Happel, Pascale Hennequin, U. Plank, U. Stroth, M. Willensdorfer
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Nuclear Fusion, 2020, 60 (6), pp.066026. ⟨10.1088/1741-4326/ab8777⟩
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DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/ab8777
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Turbulence driven widening of the near-SOL power width in ASDEX Upgrade H-Mode discharges
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T. Eich, P. Manz, R.J. Goldston, Pascale Hennequin, P. David, M. Faitsch, B. Kurzan, B. Sieglin, E. Wolfrum
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Nuclear Fusion, 2020, 60 (5), pp.056016. ⟨10.1088/1741-4326/ab7a66⟩
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DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/ab7a66
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Design of a variable frequency comb reflectometer system for the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak
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T. Happel, W. Kasparek, Pascale Hennequin, K. Höfler, Cyrille Honoré, Asdex Upgrade Team
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Plasma Science and Technology, 2020, 22 (6), pp.064002. ⟨10.1088/2058-6272/ab618c⟩
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Comb reflectometers offer the advantage of measuring several radial positions in plasma simultaneously. This allows for the investigation of fast timescales during L-H transitions, I-phases, I-mode bursts, transients during heat wave propagation, etc. A drawback of many present-day systems is that they use a fixed frequency difference between the probing frequencies. Hence, although the central probing frequency can be varied, the probing frequency difference is usually fixed. The new design presented in this work uses an advanced microwave generation and detection scheme, which allows for arbitrary probing frequencies and probing frequency separations.
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DOI : 10.1088/2058-6272/ab618c
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2019

Journal articles

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Overview of physics studies on ASDEX Upgrade
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H. Meyer, C. Angioni, C.G. Albert, N. Arden, R. Arredondo Parra, O. Asunta, M. de Baar, M. Balden, V. Bandaru, K. Behler, A. Bergmann, J. Bernardo, M. Bernert, A. Biancalani, R. Bilato, G. Birkenmeier, T.C. Blanken, V. Bobkov, A. Bock, T. Bolzonella, A. Bortolon, B. Böswirth, C. Bottereau, A. Bottino, H. van den Brand, S. Brezinsek, D. Brida, F. Brochard, C. Bruhn, J. Buchanan, A. Buhler, A. Burckhart, Y. Camenen, D. Carlton, M. Carr, D. Carralero, C. Castaldo, M. Cavedon, C. Cazzaniga, S. Ceccuzzi, C. Challis, A. Chankin, S. Chapman, C. Cianfarani, F. Clairet, S. Coda, R. Coelho, J.W. Coenen, L. Colas, G.D. Conway, S. Costea, D.P. Coster, T.B. Cote, A. Creely, G. Croci, G. Cseh, A. Czarnecka, I. Cziegler, O. D’arcangelo, P. David, C. Day, R. Delogu, P. de Marné, S.S. Denk, P. Denner, M. Dibon, A. Di Siena, D. Douai, A. Drenik, R. Drube, M. Dunne, B.P. Duval, R. Dux, T. Eich, S. Elgeti, K. Engelhardt, B. Erdös, I. Erofeev, B. Esposito, E. Fable, M. Faitsch, U. Fantz, H. Faugel, I. Faust, F. Felici, J. Ferreira, S. Fietz, A. Figuereido, R. Fischer, O. Ford, L. Frassinetti, S. Freethy, M. Fröschle, G. Fuchert, J.C. Fuchs, H. Fünfgelder, K. Galazka, J. Galdon-Quiroga, A. Gallo, Y. Gao, S. Garavaglia, A. Garcia-Carrasco, M. Garcia-Muñoz, B. Geiger, L. Giannone, L. Gil, E. Giovannozzi, C. Gleason-González, S. Glöggler, M. Gobbin, T. Görler, I. Gomez Ortiz, J. Gonzalez Martin, T. Goodman, G. Gorini, D. Gradic, A. Gräter, G. Granucci, H. Greuner, M. Griener, M. Groth, A. Gude, S. Günter, L. Guimarais, G. Haas, A.H. Hakola, C. Ham, T. Happel, N. den Harder, G.F. Harrer, J. Harrison, V. Hauer, T. Hayward-Schneider, C.C. Hegna, B. Heinemann, S. Heinzel, T. Hellsten, S. Henderson, P. Hennequin, A. Herrmann, M.F. Heyn, E. Heyn, F. Hitzler, J. Hobirk, K. Höfler, M. Hölzl, T. Höschen, J.H. Holm, C. Hopf, W.A. Hornsby, L. Horvath, A. Houben, A. Huber, V. Igochine, T. Ilkei, I. Ivanova-Stanik, W. Jacob, A.S. Jacobsen, F. Janky, A. Jansen van Vuuren, A. Jardin, F. Jaulmes, F. Jenko, T. Jensen, E. Joffrin, C.-P. Käsemann, A. Kallenbach, S. Kálvin, M. Kantor, A. Kappatou, O. Kardaun, J. Karhunen, S. Kasilov, Y. Kazakov, W. Kernbichler, A. Kirk, S. Kjer Hansen, V. Klevarova, G. Kocsis, N. Leuthold, A. Köhn, M. Koubiti, K. Krieger, A. Krivska, A. Krämer-Flecken, O. Kudlacek, T. Kurki-Suonio, B. Kurzan, B. Labit, K. Lackner, F. Laggner, P.T. Lang, P. Lauber, A. Lebschy, J. Madsen, M. Li, O. Linder, B. Lipschultz, F. Liu, Y. Liu, A. Lohs, Z. Lu, T. Luda Di Cortemiglia, N.C. Luhmann, R. Lunsford, T. Lunt, A. Lyssoivan, T. Maceina, R. Maggiora, H. Maier, O. Maj, J. Mailloux, R. Maingi, E. Maljaars, P. Manas, A. Mancini, A. Manhard, M.-E. Manso, P. Mantica, M. Mantsinen, P. Manz, M. Maraschek, C. Martens, P. Martin, L. Marrelli, A. Martitsch, M. Mayer, D. Mazon, P.J. Mccarthy, R. McDermott, H. Meister, A. Medvedeva, R. Merkel, A. Merle, V. Mertens, D. Meshcheriakov, O. Meyer, J. Miettunen, D. Milanesio, F. Mink, A. Mlynek, F. Monaco, C. Moon, F. Nabais, A. Nemes-Czopf, G. Neu, R. Neu, A.H. Nielsen, S.K. Nielsen, V. Nikolaeva, M. Nocente, J.-M. Noterdaeme, I. Novikau, S. Nowak, M. Oberkofler, M. Oberparleiter, R. Ochoukov, T. Odstrcil, J. Olsen, F. Orain, F. Palermo, O. Pan, G. Papp, I. Paradela Perez, A. Pau, G. Pautasso, D. Prisiazhniuk, F. Penzel, P. Petersson, J. Pinzón Acosta, P. Piovesan, C. Piron, R. Pitts, U. Plank, B. Plaum, B. Ploeckl, V. Plyusnin, G. Pokol, E. Poli, L. Porte, S. Potzel, T. Pütterich, M. Ramisch, J. Rasmussen, G.A. Rattá, S. Ratynskaia, G. Raupp, G.L. Ravera, D. Réfy, M. Reich, F. Reimold, D. Reiser, T. Ribeiro, J. Riesch, R. Riedl, D. Rittich, J.F. Rivero-Rodriguez, G. Rocchi, M. Rodriguez-Ramos, V. Rohde, A. Ross, M. Rott, M. Rubel, D. Ryan, F. Ryter, S. Saarelma, M. Salewski, A. Salmi, L. Sanchis-Sanchez, J. Santos, O. Sauter, A. Scarabosio, G. Schall, K. Schmid, O. Schmitz, P.A. Schneider, R. Schrittwieser, M. Schubert, T. Schwarz-Selinger, J. Schweinzer, B. Scott, T. Sehmer, E. Seliunin, M. Sertoli, A. Shabbir, A. Shalpegin, L. Shao, S. Sharapov, G. Sias, M. Siccinio, B. Sieglin, A. Sigalov, A. Silva, C. Silva, D. Silvagni, P. Simon, J. Simpson, E. Smigelskis, A. Snicker, C. Sommariva, C. Sozzi, M. Spolaore, A. Stegmeir, M. Stejner, J. Stober, U. Stroth, E. Strumberger, G. Suarez, H.-J. Sun, O. Tudisco, W. Suttrop, E. Sytova, T. Szepesi, B. Tál, T. Tala, G. Tardini, M. Tardocchi, M. Teschke, D. Terranova, W. Tierens, E. Thorén, D. Told, P. Tolias, W. Treutterer, E. Trier, M. Tripský, M. Valisa, M. Valovic, B. Vanovac, D. van Vugt, S. Varoutis, G. Verdoolaege, N. Vianello, J. Vicente, T. Vierle, E. Viezzer, U. von Toussaint, D. Wagner, N. Wang, X. Wang, M. Weiland, A.E. White, S. Wiesen, M. Willensdorfer, B. Wiringer, M. Wischmeier, R. Wolf, E. Wolfrum, L. Xiang, Q. Yang, Z. Yang, Q. Yu, R. Zagórski, I. Zammuto, W. Zhang, M. van Zeeland, T. Zehetbauer, M. Zilker, S. Zoletnik, H. Zohm
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Nuclear Fusion, 2019, 59 (11), pp.112014. ⟨10.1088/1741-4326/ab18b8⟩
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Abstract The ASDEX Upgrade (AUG) programme, jointly run with the EUROfusion MST1 task force, continues to significantly enhance the physics base of ITER and DEMO. Here, the full tungsten wall is a key asset for extrapolating to future devices. The high overall heating power, flexible heating mix and comprehensive diagnostic set allows studies ranging from mimicking the scrape-off-layer and divertor conditions of ITER and DEMO at high density to fully non-inductive operation ( q 95 = 5.5, ) at low density. Higher installed electron cyclotron resonance heating power 6 MW, new diagnostics and improved analysis techniques have further enhanced the capabilities of AUG. Stable high-density H-modes with MW m −1 with fully detached strike-points have been demonstrated. The ballooning instability close to the separatrix has been identified as a potential cause leading to the H-mode density limit and is also found to play an important role for the access to small edge-localized modes (ELMs). Density limit disruptions have been successfully avoided using a path-oriented approach to disruption handling and progress has been made in understanding the dissipation and avoidance of runaway electron beams. ELM suppression with resonant magnetic perturbations is now routinely achieved reaching transiently . This gives new insight into the field penetration physics, in particular with respect to plasma flows. Modelling agrees well with plasma response measurements and a helically localised ballooning structure observed prior to the ELM is evidence for the changed edge stability due to the magnetic perturbations. The impact of 3D perturbations on heat load patterns and fast-ion losses have been further elaborated. Progress has also been made in understanding the ELM cycle itself. Here, new fast measurements of and E r allow for inter ELM transport analysis confirming that E r is dominated by the diamagnetic term even for fast timescales. New analysis techniques allow detailed comparison of the ELM crash and are in good agreement with nonlinear MHD modelling. The observation of accelerated ions during the ELM crash can be seen as evidence for the reconnection during the ELM. As type-I ELMs (even mitigated) are likely not a viable operational regime in DEMO studies of ‘natural’ no ELM regimes have been extended. Stable I-modes up to have been characterised using -feedback. Core physics has been advanced by more detailed characterisation of the turbulence with new measurements such as the eddy tilt angle—measured for the first time—or the cross-phase angle of and fluctuations. These new data put strong constraints on gyro-kinetic turbulence modelling. In addition, carefully executed studies in different main species (H, D and He) and with different heating mixes highlight the importance of the collisional energy exchange for interpreting energy confinement. A new regime with a hollow profile now gives access to regimes mimicking aspects of burning plasma conditions and lead to nonlinear interactions of energetic particle modes despite the sub-Alfvénic beam energy. This will help to validate the fast-ion codes for predicting ITER and DEMO.
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Physics research on the TCV tokamak facility: from conventional to alternative scenarios and beyond
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S. Coda, M. Agostini, R. Albanese, S. Alberti, E. Alessi, S. Allan, J. Allcock, R. Ambrosino, H. Anand, Y. Andrèbe, H. Arnichand, F. Auriemma, J.M. Ayllon-Guerola, F. Bagnato, J. Ball, M. Baquero-Ruiz, A.A. Beletskii, M. Bernert, W. Bin, P. Blanchard, T.C. Blanken, J.A. Boedo, O. Bogar, T. Bolzonella, F. Bombarda, N. Bonanomi, F. Bouquey, C. Bowman, D. Brida, J. Bucalossi, J. Buermans, H. Bufferand, P. Buratti, G. Calabró, L. Calacci, Y. Camenen, D. Carnevale, F. Carpanese, M. Carr, L. Carraro, A. Casolari, F. Causa, J. Čeřovský, O. Chellaï, P. Chmielewski, D. Choi, N. Christen, G. Ciraolo, L. Cordaro, S. Costea, N. Cruz, A. Czarnecka, A. Dal Molin, P. David, J. Decker, H. De Oliveira, D. Douai, M.B. Dreval, B. Dudson, M. Dunne, B.P. Duval, T. Eich, S. Elmore, O. Embréus, B. Esposito, M. Faitsch, M. Farník, A. Fasoli, N. Fedorczak, F. Felici, S. Feng, X. Feng, G. Ferro, O. Février, O. Ficker, Alexandre Fil, M. Fontana, L. Frassinetti, I. Furno, D.S. Gahle, D. Galassi, K. Ga\lązka, A. Gallo, C. Galperti, S. Garavaglia, J. Garcia, M. Garcia-Muñoz, A.J. Garrido, I. Garrido, J. Gath, B. Geiger, G. Giruzzi, M. Gobbin, T.P. Goodman, G. Gorini, M. Gospodarczyk, G. Granucci, J.P. Graves, M. Gruca, T. Gyergyek, A. Hakola, T. Happel, G.F. Harrer, J. Harrison, E. Havlíčková, J. Hawke, S. Henderson, P. Hennequin, L. Hesslow, D. Hogeweij, J.-Ph. Hogge, C. Hopf, M. Hoppe, J. Horáček, Z. Huang, A. Hubbard, A. Iantchenko, V. Igochine, P. Innocente, C. Ionita Schrittwieser, H. Isliker, R. Jacquier, A. Jardin, A. Kappatou, A. Karpushov, P.-V. Kazantzidis, D. Keeling, N. Kirneva, M. Komm, M. Kong, J. Kovacic, N. Krawczyk, O. Kudlacek, T. Kurki-Suonio, R. Kwiatkowski, B. Labit, E. Lazzaro, B. Linehan, B. Lipschultz, X. Llobet, R. Lombroni, V.P. Loschiavo, T. Lunt, E. Macusova, J. Madsen, E. Maljaars, P. Mantica, M. Maraschek, C. Marchetto, A. Marco, A. Mariani, C. Marini, Y. Martin, F. Matos, R. Maurizio, B. Mavkov, D. Mazon, P. Mccarthy, R. Mcdermott, V. Menkovski, A. Merle, H. Meyer, D. Micheletti, F. Militello, K. Mitosinkova, J. Mlynář, V. Moiseenko, P.A. Molina Cabrera, J. Morales, J.-M. Moret, A. Moro, R.T. Mumgaard, V. Naulin, R.D. Nem, F. Nespoli, A.H. Nielsen, S.K. Nielsen, M. Nocente, S. Nowak, N. Offeddu, F.P. Orsitto, R. Paccagnella, A. Palha, G. Papp, A. Pau, R.O. Pavlichenko, A. Perek, V. Pericoli Ridolfini, F. Pesamosca, V. Piergotti, L. Pigatto, P. Piovesan, C. Piron, V. Plyusnin, E. Poli, L. Porte, G. Pucella, M.E. Puiatti, T. Pütterich, M. Rabinski, J. Juul Rasmussen, T. Ravensbergen, M. Reich, H. Reimerdes, F. Reimold, C. Reux, D. Ricci, P. Ricci, N. Rispoli, J. Rosato, S. Saarelma, M. Salewski, A. Salmi, O. Sauter, M. Scheffer, Ch. Schlatter, B.S. Schneider, R. Schrittwieser, S. Sharapov, R.R. Sheeba, U. Sheikh, R. Shousha, M. Silva, J. Sinha, C. Sozzi, M. Spolaore, L. Stipani, P. Strand, T. Tala, A.S. Tema Biwole, A.A. Teplukhina, D. Testa, C. Theiler, A. Thornton, G. Tomaž, M. Tomes, M.Q. Tran, C. Tsironis, C.K. Tsui, Joanna M Urban, M. Valisa, M. Valla, D. Van Vugt, S. Vartanian, O. Vasilovici, K. Verhaegh, L. Vermare, N. Vianello, E. Viezzer, W.A.J. Vijvers, F. Villone, I. Voitsekhovitch, N.M.T. Vu, N. Walkden, T. Wauters, M. Weiland, H. Weisen, M. Wensing, M. Wiesenberger, G. Wilkie, M. Wischmeier, K. Wu, M. Yoshida, R. Zagorski, P. Zanca, J. Zebrowski, A. Zisis, M. Zuin, The Eurofusion Mst1 Team
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Nuclear Fusion, 2019, 59 (11), pp.112023. ⟨10.1088/1741-4326/ab25cb⟩
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The research program of the TCV tokamak ranges from conventional to advanced-tokamak scenarios and alternative divertor configurations, to exploratory plasmas driven by theoretical insight, exploiting the device’s unique shaping capabilities. Disruption avoidance by real-time locked mode prevention or unlocking with electron-cyclotron resonance heating (ECRH) was thoroughly documented, using magnetic and radiation triggers. Runaway generation with high-Z noble-gas injection and runaway dissipation by subsequent Ne or Ar injection were studied for model validation. The new 1 MW neutral beam injector has expanded the parameter range, now encompassing ELMy H-modes in an ITER-like shape and nearly non-inductive H-mode discharges sustained by electron cyclotron and neutral beam current drive. In the H-mode, the pedestal pressure increases modestly with nitrogen seeding while fueling moves the density pedestal outwards, but the plasma stored energy is largely uncorrelated to either seeding or fueling. High fueling at high triangularity is key to accessing the attractive small edge-localized mode (type-II) regime. Turbulence is reduced in the core at negative triangularity, consistent with increased confinement and in accord with global gyrokinetic simulations. The geodesic acoustic mode, possibly coupled with avalanche events, has been linked with particle flow to the wall in diverted plasmas. Detachment, scrape-off layer transport, and turbulence were studied in L- and H-modes in both standard and alternative configurations (snowflake, super-X, and beyond). The detachment process is caused by power ‘starvation’ reducing the ionization source, with volume recombination playing only a minor role. Partial detachment in the H-mode is obtained with impurity seeding and has shown little dependence on flux expansion in standard single-null geometry. In the attached L-mode phase, increasing the outer connection length reduces the in–out heat-flow asymmetry. A doublet plasma, featuring an internal X-point, was achieved successfully, and a transport barrier was observed in the mantle just outside the internal separatrix. In the near future variable-configuration baffles and possibly divertor pumping will be introduced to investigate the effect of divertor closure on exhaust and performance, and 3.5 MW ECRH and 1 MW neutral beam injection heating will be added.
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Experimental investigation of the tilt angle of turbulent structures in the core of fusion plasmas
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Javier Pinzon, T. Happel, Pascale Hennequin, Clemente Angioni, Teresa Estrada, Alexander Lebschy, Ulrich Stroth, The Asdex Upgrade Team
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Nuclear Fusion, 2019, 59, pp.074002. ⟨10.1088/1741-4326/ab227e⟩
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The tilt angle of turbulent structures stands for the anisotropy of turbulence which is essential for understanding the dynamics of magnetized plasmas. It is a quantity predicted by theory and simulations, that provides information on the interplay between turbulence, micro-instabilities and plasma flows. A new method for measuring the tilt angle of turbulent structures in the core region of fusion plasmas using Doppler reflectometry is presented. First measurements of this type on the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak have shown a significant difference of tilt angle for different plasma conditions. The dominance of sheared flows in determining the structure tilt is experimentally demonstrated for different turbulence regimes.
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ELM-induced cold pulse propagation in ASDEX Upgrade
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Elisée Trier, E. Wolfrum, M. Willensdorfer, Q. Yu, M. Hoelzl, F. Orain, F. Ryter, C. Angioni, M. Bernert, M. G Dunne, S. S Denk, J. C Fuchs, R. Fischer, Pascale Hennequin, B. Kurzan, F. Mink, A. Mlynek, T. Odstrcil, P. a Schneider, U. Stroth, G. Tardini, B. Vanovac, The Asdex Upgrade Team, The Eurofusion Mst1 Team
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Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2019, 61 (4), pp.045003. ⟨10.1088/1361-6587/aaf9c3⟩
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In ASDEX Upgrade, the propagation of cold pulses induced by type-I edge localized modes (ELMs) is studied using electron cyclotron emission measurements, in a dataset of plasmas with moderate triangularity. It is found that the edge safety factor or the plasma current are the main determining parameters for the inward penetration of the T e perturbations. With increasing plasma current the ELM penetration is more shallow in spite of the stronger ELMs. Estimates of the heat pulse diffusivity show that the corresponding transport is too large to be representative of the inter-ELM phase. Ergodization of the plasma edge during ELMs is a possible explanation for the observed properties of the cold pulse propagation, which is qualitatively consistent with non-linear magneto-hydro-dynamic simulations.
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Dependence on plasma shape and plasma fueling for small edge-localized mode regimes in TCV and ASDEX Upgrade
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B. Labit, T. Eich, G.F. Harrer, E. Wolfrum, M. Bernert, M.G. Dunne, L. Frassinetti, Pascale Hennequin, R. Maurizio, A. Merle, H. Meyer, S. Saarelma, U. Sheikh, The Eurofusion Mst1 Team
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Nuclear Fusion, 2019, 59 (8), pp.086020. ⟨10.1088/1741-4326/ab2211⟩
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Within the EUROfusion MST1 work package, a series of experiments has been conducted on AUG and TCV devices to disentangle the role of plasma fueling and plasma shape for the onset of small ELM regimes. On both devices, small ELM regimes with high confinement are achieved if and only if two conditions are fulfilled at the same time. Firstly, the plasma density at the separatrix must be large enough (), leading to a pressure profile flattening at the separatrix, which stabilizes type-I ELMs. Secondly, the magnetic configuration has to be close to a double null (DN), leading to a reduction of the magnetic shear in the extreme vicinity of the separatrix. As a consequence, its stabilizing effect on ballooning modes is weakened.
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Measurement of the tilt angle of turbulent structures in magnetically confined plasmas using Doppler reflectometry
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Javier Pinzon, Teresa Estrada, T. Happel, Pascale Hennequin, E. Blanco, Ulrich Stroth
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Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2019, ⟨10.1088/1361-6587/ab394d⟩
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The mean tilt angle of turbulent structures is a key element for describing the turbulence and its interplay with plasma flows in magnetically confined plasmas. It is a quantity predicted by theories and gyrokinetic simulations, which can provide information on the type of the dominant micro-instability, and also on the turbulence anisotropy induced by sheared flows. A new method for measuring the tilt angle of turbulent structures using Doppler reflectometry has been recently introduced [J R Pinzón et al 2019 Nucl. Fusion 59 074002]. It is based on the time delay of the cross-correlation between microwaves backscattered at radially displaced positions. In this paper, the method is presented in detail and is successfully applied on the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak and the TJ-II stellarator. Measurements of the tilt angle in the core of both machines are reported, in the TJ-II case, for the first time.
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Stationarity of I-mode operation and I-mode divertor heat fluxes on the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak
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T. Happel, M. Griener, D. Silvagni, S. J. Freethy, Pascale Hennequin, F. Janky, P. Manz, D. Prisiazhniuk, F. Ryter, M. Bernert, D. Brida, T. Eich, M. Faitsch, L. Gil, L. Guimarais, A. Merle, D. Nille, J R Pinzón, B. Sieglin, U. Stroth, E. Viezzer
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Nuclear Materials and Energy, 2019, 18, pp.159 - 165. ⟨10.1016/j.nme.2018.12.022⟩
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Recent I-mode investigations from the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak are reported. It is shown that neutral-beam-injection heated I-modes can be stationary, which is important in terms of extrapolability towards future fusion devices. Furthermore, detailed studies on the weakly coherent mode are reported. In particular, experimental observations point towards its existence in L-mode, before I-mode starts. Moreover, its impact on density and temperature fluctuations is evaluated. Studies of stationary divertor heat fluxes show that in I-mode, the upstream power fall-off length is between those observed in L-mode and H-mode, and it is connected to the scrape-off layer temperature fall-off length. Moreover, analysis of transient divertor heat loads shows that intermittent turbulent events, observed in the confinement region and linked to the weakly coherent mode, are responsible for a significant part of divertor heat loads.
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Ramping up RF power and increasing pulse length in the full tungsten environment of WEST
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C. Bourdelle, J. Bucalossi, N. Fedorczak, T. Loarer, E. Moreau, J.-F Tsitrone, V Artaud, S. Brezinsek, H. Bufferand, L. Colas, Y. Corre, X. Courtois, L. Delpech, C. Desgranges, P. Devynck, T Dittmar, A Drenik, D Douai, R. Dumont, F Durodié, A. Ekedahl, J. Garcia, J Gaspar, C. Gil, M. Goniche, J. Gunn, W Helou, J. Hillairet, P Hennequin, C C Klepper, E Lerche, P. Maget, Y Marandet, D. Mazon, O Meyer, G. Lombard, P. Manas, P. Mollard, J. Morales, E. Nardon, R. Nouailletas, M Peret, Y. Peysson, C. Reux, F. Saint-Laurent, J.-L Schwob, P. Tamain, G. Urbanczyk, S Vartanian, L Vermare, D Vézinet, X Yang
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46th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics, Jul 2019, Milan, Italy
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Observations on edge GAM-turbulence interactions in ASDEX Upgrade
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G.C Conway, F. Palermo, I. Novikau, P. Manz, P. Simon, Pascale Hennequin, The Asdex Upgrade Team
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46th European Physical Society Conference on Plasma Physics, Jul 2019, Milan, Italy
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Inner versus outer ExB shear layer: an attempt to radially localize the L-H transition
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M. Cavedon, R. Dux, T. Happel, Pascale Hennequin, U. Plank, T. Pütterich, F. Ryter, U. Stroth, E. Viezzer, E. Wolfrum, The Asdex Upgrade Team
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46th European Physical Society Conference on Plasma Physics, Jul 2019, Milan, Italy
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Turbulence driven widening of the near-SOL power width for H-mode operation in ASDEX Upgrade
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T. Eich, R.J. Goldston, P. Manz, Pascale Hennequin, P. David, M. Faitsch, B. Kurzan, B. Sieglin, E. Wolfrum, The Asdex Upgrade Team, The Eurofusion Mst1 Team
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46th European Physical Society Conference on Plasma Physics, Jul 2019, Milan, Italy
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Drift-wave observation in a toroidal magnetized plasma and comparison with a modified Hasegawa-Wakatani model
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Peter Donnel, Pierre Morel, Cyrille Honoré, Özgür D. Gürcan, V. Pisarev, C. Metzger, Pascale Hennequin
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Physics of Plasmas, 2018, 25 (6), pp.062127. ⟨10.1063/1.5025141⟩
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This paper presents the results of fluctuation measurements in a toroidal magnetized plasma, using Langmuir probes, and comparisons between the observed frequency modes and a Hasegawa-Wakatani model including curvature, adapted to the specifics of the toroidal device. More precisely, two kinds of signals are detected in the presence of an additional vertical magnetic field in the region of significant density and potential gradients. A high frequency, propagating component, corresponding to dissipative drift-waves in the curved magnetic field, is observed and the frequency and typical wavelengths are found to be in good agreement with the linear Hasegawa-Wakatani model including curvature effects. A second, low frequency component is observed at lower frequencies and is shown to correspond to large scale vertical electrostatic field structures. A significantly high level of cross correlation is observed between these two signals, with an identifiable time delay, which suggests an analogy to the time delayed quasi-periodic dynamics in predator-prey systems, and a similar phenomenon is observed between zonal flows and microturbulence in tokamaks and other magnetised plasma systems.
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Observations of core ion cyclotron emission on ASDEX Upgrade tokamak
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R. Ochoukov, V. Bobkov, B. Chapman, R. Dendy, M. Dunne, H. Faugel, M. García Muñoz, B. Geiger, Pascale Hennequin, K. G. Mcclements, D. Moseev, S. Nielsen, J. Rasmussen, P. Schneider, M. Weiland, J.-M. Noterdaeme
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Review of Scientific Instruments, 2018, 89 (10), pp.10J101. ⟨10.1063/1.5035180⟩
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The B-dot probe diagnostic suite on the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak has recently been upgraded with a new 125 MHz, 14 bit resolution digitizer to study ion cyclotron emission (ICE). While classic edge emission from the low field side plasma is often observed, we also measure waves originating from the core with fast fusion protons or beam injected deuterons being a possible emission driver. Comparing the measured frequency values with ion cyclotron harmonics present in the plasma places the origin of this emission on the magnetic axis, with the fundamental hydrogen/second deuterium cyclotron harmonic matching the observed values. The actual values range from ∼27 MHz at the on-axis toroidal field BT = -1.79 T to ∼40 MHz at BT = -2.62 T. When the magnetic axis position evolves during this emission, the measured frequency values track the changes in the estimated on-axis cyclotron frequency values. Core ICE is usually a transient event lasting ∼100 ms during the neutral beam startup phase. However, in some cases, core emission occurs in steady-state plasmas and lasts for longer than 1 s. These observations suggest an attractive possibility of using a non-perturbing ICE-based diagnostic to passively monitor fusion alpha particles at the location of their birth in the plasma core, in deuterium-tritium burning devices such as ITER and DEMO.
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Validation of gyrokinetic simulations with measurements of electron temperature fluctuations and density-temperature phase angles on ASDEX Upgrade
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S. J. Freethy, T. Görler, A. J. Creely, G. D. Conway, S. S. Denk, T. Happel, C. Koenen, Pascale Hennequin, A. E. White
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Physics of Plasmas, 2018, 25 (5), pp.055903. ⟨10.1063/1.5018930⟩
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Measurements of turbulent electron temperature fluctuation amplitudes, dTe?=T e, frequency spectra, and radial correlation lengths, LrðT e? Þ, have been performed at ASDEX Upgrade using a newly upgraded Correlation ECE diagnostic in the range of scales k? < 1:4 cm1; k r < 3:5 cm1 (k?qs < 0:28 and k rqs < 0:7). The phase angle between turbulent temperature and density fluctuations, anT, has also been measured by using an ECE radiometer coupled to a reflectometer along the same line of sight. These quantities are used simultaneously to constrain a set of ion- scale non-linear gyrokinetic turbulence simulations of the outer core (qtor ¼ 0.75) of a low density, electron heated L-mode plasma, performed using the gyrokinetic simulation code, GENE. The ion and electron temperature gradients were scanned within uncertainties. It is found that gyrokinetic simulations are able to match simultaneously the electron and ion heat flux at this radius within the experimental uncertainties. The simulations were performed based on a reference discharge for which dT e?=T e measurements were available, and L rðTe? Þ and anT were then predicted using syn- thetic diagnostics prior to measurements in a repeat discharge. While temperature fluctuation amplitudes are overestimated by >50% for all simulations within the sensitivity scans performed, good quantitative agreement is found for L rðT e? Þ and anT. A validation metric is used to quantify the level of agreement of individual simulations with experimental measurements, and the best agreement is found close to the experimental gradient values. Published by AIP Publishing.
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DOI : 10.1063/1.5018930
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Poloidal asymmetries of flows in the Tore Supra tokamak
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Laure Vermare, Pascale Hennequin, Özgür D. Gürcan, X. Garbet, Cyrille Honoré, F. Clairet, J-C. Giacalone, Pierre Morel, A. Storelli, Tore Supra Team
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Physics of Plasmas, 2018, 25 (2), pp.020704. ⟨10.1063/1.5022122⟩
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Simultaneous measurements of binormal velocity of density fluctuations using two separate Doppler backscattering systems at the low field side and at the top of the plasma show significant poloidal asymmetry. The measurements are performed in the core region between the radii 0.7 < ρ  <  0.95, over a limited number of L-mode discharges covering a wide range of plasma conditions in the Tore Supra tokamak. A possible generation mechanism by the ballooned structure of the underlying turbulence, in the form of convective cells, is proposed for explaining the observation of these poloidally asymmetric mean flows.
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DOI : 10.1063/1.5022122
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Conference papers

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Plasma turbulence structure in the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak, Overview
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Pascale Hennequin, T. Happel, J R Pinzón, Simon Freethy, T. Görler, G. D. Conway, C. Angioni, Elisée Trier, P. Schneider, U. Stroth, The Asdex Upgrade Team, The Eurofusion Mst1 Team
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2nd Asia-Pacific Conference on Plasma Physics, 16 Nov 2018, Nov 2018, Kanazawa, Japan
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WEST first plasma operation with all tungsten PFC
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J. Bucalossi, C. Bourdelle, N. Fedorczak, T. Loarer, P. Moreau, E. Tsitronne, J.-F. Artaud, S. Brezinsek, H. Bufferand, X. Courtois, L. Delpech, C. Desgranges, P. Devynck, D. Douai, R. Dumont, A. Ekedahl, J. Garcia, J. Garpar, C. Gil, M. Goniche, J. Gunn, W. Helou, Pascale Hennequin, C. Keppler, P. Maget, Y. Marandet, D. Mazon, O. Meyer, J. Morales, E. Nardon, R. Nouailletas, Y. Peysson, Cedric Reux, F. Saint-Laurent, P. Tamain, Laure Vermare, D. Vezinet, The West Team
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27th IAEA Fusion Energy Conference (FEC 2018), Oct 2018, Ahmenabad, India
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Plasma shape and fueling dependence on the small ELMs regime in TCV and AUG IAEA Fusion Energy Conference 2018 (IAEA FEC 2018)
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B. Labit, T. Eich, G. Harrer, M. Bernert, H. de Oliveira, M. Dunne, L. Frassinetti, Pascale Hennequin, R. Maurizio, A. Merle, H. Meyer, P. Molina, J. Stober, E. Wolfrum, The Tcv Team, The Asdex Upgrade Team, The Eurofusion Mst1 Team
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IAEA Fusion Energy Conference 2018 (IAEA FEC 2018), Oct 2018, Ahmenabad, India. pp.EX 2-5
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Experimental investigation of the mean turbulent structure tilt angle in the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak
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J R Pinzón, C. Angioni, T. Happel, Pascale Hennequin, E. Blanco, T. Estrada, U. Stroth, Mast The Asdex Upgrade, Teams Tcv
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45th European Physical Society Conference on Plasma Physics, Jul 2018, Prague, Czech Republic
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Poloidal asymmetry and dynamics of perpendicular flow in Tore Supra plasmas
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Laure Vermare, Pascale Hennequin, Özgür D. Gürcan, Cyrille Honoré, Pierre Morel, A. Storelli, Peter Donnel, X. Garbet, J-C. Giacalone, And Tore Supra Team
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45th European Physical Society Conference on Plasma Physics, Jul 2018, Prague, Czech Republic. pp.P5.1062
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Turbulence measurements and gyrokinetic validation at ASDEX Upgrade
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Simon Freethy, T. Görler, A. J. Creely, G. D. Conway, S. Denk, T. Happel, Pascale Hennequin, A. E. White, The Asdex Upgrade Team
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45th European Physical Society Conference on Plasma Physics, Jul 2018, Prague, Czech Republic. pp.O4.109
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Studying ELM filaments with Doppler reflectometry in ASDEX Upgrade
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Elisée Trier, Pascale Hennequin, J R Pinzón, M. Hoelzl, G. D. Conway, T. Happel, G. Harrer, F. Mink, F. Orain, E. Wolfrum, The Asdex Upgrade Team, The Mst1 Eurofusion Team
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45th European Physical Society Conference on Plasma Physics (EPS2018), Jul 2018, Prague, Czech Republic. pp.P1.1023
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Experimental separation of core transport and edge pedestal isotope dependencies by variation of the plasma shape
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P. Schneider, C. Angioni, M. Dunne, M. Cavedon, Pascale Hennequin, B. Kurzan, P. Manas, F. Mink, R.M. Mcdermott, F. Ryter, M. Willensdorfer, E. Wolfrum, The Asdex Upgrade Team
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45th European Physical Society Conference on Plasma Physics, Jul 2018, Prague, Czech Republic. pp.P5.1078
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The I-mode confinement regime on the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak: scrape-off layer properties and investigation of stationary and transient divertor heat loads
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T. Happel, M. Griener, D. Silvagni, Simon Freethy, Pascale Hennequin, F. Janky, P. Manz, D. Nille, F. Ryter, The Asdex Upgrade Team
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23rd International Conference on Plasma Surface Interactions in Controlled Fusion Devices, Jun 2018, Princeton, United States
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Echelles et dynamique de la turbulence, observations par diffusion de la lumière dans les plasmas de tokamak
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Pascale Hennequin
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15eme Congres de la SFP division Plasmas, Jun 2018, Bordeaux, France
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Fluctuations measurements from core to edge: examples of constraints for confrontation to simulations
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Pascale Hennequin
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May Mini Workshop on the interplay of turbulent transport in divertor, SOL, edge and core regions and impact on performance, May 2018, Cadarache, France
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Advances in turbulence measurements using new Correlation ECE and nT-phase diagnostics at ASDEX Upgrade
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Simon Freethy, T. Görler, A. J. Creely, G. D. Conway, T. Happel, C. Könen, Pascale Hennequin, A. E. White, The Asdex Upgrade Team
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20th Joint Workshop on Electron Cyclotron Emission and Resonance Heating (EC-20), May 2018, Greifswald, Germany
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Ion cyclotron emission (ICE) study on the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak
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R. Ochoukov, V. Bobkov, M. Dunne, H. Faugel, M. García Muñoz, B. Geiger, Pascale Hennequin, K. Mcclement, D. Moseev, S. Nielsen, J. Rasmussen, P. Schneider, M. Weiland, J.-M. Noterdaeme, The Asdex Upgrade Team, The Eurofusion Mst1 Team
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HTPD 2018: 22nd Topical Conference on High Temperature Plasma Diagnostics, Apr 2018, San Diego, California, United States
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Poster communications

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Signatures of non-local electron heat transport in fusion plasmas.
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K. Höfler, T. Happel, Pascale Hennequin, F. Ryter, U. Stroth, Team Asdex Upgrade
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DPG-Fruehjahrstagung der Sektion AMOP (DPG 2018), Mar 2018, Bremen, Germany. 2018
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Overview of the TCV tokamak program: scientific progress and facility upgrades
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S. Coda, J. Ahn, R. Albanese, S. Alberti, E. Alessi, S. Allan, H. Anand, G. Anastassiou, Y. Andrebe, C. Angioni, M. Ariola, M. Bernert, M. Beurskens, W. Bin, P. Blanchard, T. C. Blanken, J. A. Boedo, T. Bolzonella, F. Bouquey, F. H. Braunmueller, H. Bufferand, P. Buratti, G. Calabro, Y. Camenen, D. Carnevale, F. Carpanese, F. Causa, R. Cesario, I. T. Chapman, O. Chellai, D. Choi, C. Cianfarani, G. Ciraolo, J. Citrin, S. Costea, F. Crisanti, N. Cruz, A. Czarnecka, J. Decker, G. de Masi, G. de Tommasi, D. Douai, M. Dunne, B. P. Duval, T. Eich, S. Elmore, B. Esposito, M. Faitsch, A. Fasoli, N. Fedorczak, F. Felici, O. Fevrier, O. Ficker, S. Fietz, M. Fontana, L. Frassinetti, I. Furno, S. Galeani, A. Gallo, C. Galperti, S. Garavaglia, I. Garrido, B. Geiger, E. Giovannozzi, M. Gobbin, T. P. Goodman, G. Gorini, M. Gospodarczyk, G. Granucci, J. P. Graves, R. Guirlet, A. Hakola, C. Ham, J. Harrison, J. Hawke, P. Hennequin, B. Hnat, D. Hogeweij, J. -Ph. Hogge, C. Honore, C. Hopf, J. Horacek, Z. Huang, V. Igochine, P. Innocente, C. Ionita Schrittwieser, H. Isliker, R. Jacquier, A. Jardin, J. Kamleitner, A. Karpushov, D. L. Keeling, N. Kirneva, M. Kong, M. Koubiti, J. Kovacic, A. Kramer-Flecken, N. Krawczyk, O. Kudlacek, B. Labit, E. Lazzaro, H. B. Le, B. Lipschultz, X. Llobet, B. Lomanowski, V. P. Loschiavo, T. Lunt, P. Maget, E. Maljaars, A. Malygin, M. Maraschek, C. Marini, P. Martin, Y. Martin, S. Mastrostefano, R. Maurizio, M. Mavridis, D. Mazon, R. Mcadams, R. Mcdermott, A. Merle, H. Meyer, F. Militello, I. G. Miron, P. A. Molina Cabrera, J. -M. Moret, A. Moro, D. Moulton, V. Naulin, F. Nespoli, A. H. Nielsen, M. Nocente, R. Nouailletas, S. Nowak, T. Odstrcil, G. Papp, R. Paprok, A. Pau, G. Pautasso, V. Pericoli Ridolfini, P. Piovesan, C. Piron, T. Pisokas, L. Porte, M. Preynas, G. Ramogida, C. Rapson, J. Juul Rasmussen, M. Reich, H. Reimerdes, C. Reux, P. Ricci, D. Rittich, F. Riva, T. Robinson, S. Saarelma, F. Saint-Laurent, O. Sauter, R. Scannell, Ch. Schlatter, B. Schneider, P. Schneider, R. Schrittwieser, F. Sciortino, M. Sertoli, U. Sheikh, B. Sieglin, M. Silva, J. Sinha, C. Sozzi, M. Spolaore, T. Stange, T. Stoltzfus-Dueck, P. Tamain, A. Teplukhina, D. Testa, C. Theiler, A. Thornton, L. Tophoj, M. Q. Tran, C. Tsironis, C. Tsui, A. Uccello, S. Vartanian, G. Verdoolaege, K. Verhaegh, L. Vermare, N. Vianello, W. A. J. Vijvers, L. Vlahos, N. M. T. Vu, N. Walkden, T. Wauters, H. Weisen, M. Wischmeier, P. Zestanakis, M. Zuin, Eurofusion Mst 1team
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Nuclear Fusion, 2017, 57 (10), ⟨10.1088/1741-4326/aa6412⟩
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The TCV tokamak is augmenting its unique historical capabilities (strong shaping, strong electron heating) with ion heating, additional electron heating compatible with high densities, and variable divertor geometry, in a multifaceted upgrade program designed to broaden its operational range without sacrificing its fundamental flexibility. The TCV program is rooted in a three-pronged approach aimed at ITER support, explorations towards DEMO, and fundamental research. A 1 MW, tangential neutral beam injector (NBI) was recently installed and promptly extended the TCV parameter range, with record ion temperatures and toroidal rotation velocities and measurable neutral-beam current drive. ITER-relevant scenario development has received particular attention, with strategies aimed at maximizing performance through optimized discharge trajectories to avoid MHD instabilities, such as peeling-ballooning and neoclassical tearing modes. Experiments on exhaust physics have focused particularly on detachment, a necessary step to a DEMO reactor, in a comprehensive set of conventional and advanced divertor concepts. The specific theoretical prediction of an enhanced radiation region between the two X-points in the low-field-side snowflake-minus configuration was experimentally confirmed. Fundamental investigations of the power decay length in the scrape-off layer (SOL) are progressing rapidly, again in widely varying configurations and in both D and He plasmas; in particular, the double decay length in L-mode limited plasmas was found to be replaced by a single length at high SOL resistivity. Experiments on disruption mitigation by massive gas injection and electron-cyclotron resonance heating (ECRH) have begun in earnest, in parallel with studies of runaway electron generation and control, in both stable and disruptive conditions; a quiescent runaway beam carrying the entire electrical current appears to develop in some cases. Developments in plasma control have benefited from progress in individual controller design and have evolved steadily towards controller integration, mostly within an environment supervised by a tokamak profile control simulator. TCV has demonstrated effective wall conditioning with ECRH in He in support of the preparations for JT-60SA operation.
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Overview of ASDEX Upgrade results
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A. Kallenbach, D. Aguiam, L. Aho-Mantila, C. Angioni, N. Arden, R. Arredondo Parra, O. Asunta, M. De Baar, M. Balden, K. Behler, A. Bergmann, J. Bernardo, M. Bernert, M. Beurskens, A. Biancalani, R. Bilato, G. Birkenmeier, V. Bobkov, A. Bock, A. Bogomolov, T. Bolzonella, B. Boswirth, C. Bottereau, A. Bottino, H. van Den Brand, S. Brezinsek, D. Brida, F. Brochard, C. Bruhn, J. Buchanan, A. Buhler, A. Burckhart, D. Cambon-Silva, Y. Camenen, P. Carvalho, G. Carrasco, C. Cazzaniga, M. Carr, D. Carralero, L. Casali, C. Castaldo, M. Cavedon, C. Challis, A. Chankin, I. Chapman, F. Clairet, I. Classen, S. Coda, R. Coelho, J. W. Coenen, L. Colas, G. Conway, S. Costea, D. P. Coster, G. Croci, G. Cseh, A. Czarnecka, O. d'Arcangelo, C. Day, R. Delogu, P. De Marne, S. Denk, P. Denner, M. Dibon, R. d'Inca, A. Di Siena, D. Douai, A. Drenik, R. Drube, M. Dunne, B. P. Duval, R. Dux, T. Eich, S. Elgeti, K. Engelhardt, B. Erdos, I. Erofeev, B. Esposito, E. Fable, M. Faitsch, U. Fantz, H. Faugel, F. Felici, S. Fietz, A. Figueredo, R. Fischer, O. Ford, L. Frassinetti, S. Freethy, M. Froschle, G. Fuchert, J. C. Fuchs, H. Funfgelder, K. Galazka, J. Galdon-Quiroga, A. Gallo, Y. Gao, S. Garavaglia, M. Garcia-Munoz, B. Geiger, C. Cianfarani, L. Giannone, E. Giovannozzi, C. Gleason-Gonzalez, S. Gloggler, M. Gobbin, T. Gorler, T. Goodman, G. Gorini, D. Gradic, A. Grater, G. Granucci, H. Greuner, M. Griener, M. Groth, A. Gude, S. Gunter, L. Guimarais, G. Haas, A. H. Hakola, C. Ham, T. Happel, J. Harrison, D. Hatch, V. Hauer, T. Hayward, B. Heinemann, S. Heinzel, T. Hellsten, S. Henderson, P. Hennequin, A. Herrmann, E. Heyn, F. Hitzler, J. Hobirk, M. Holzl, T. Hoschen, J. H. Holm, C. Hopf, F. Hoppe, L. Horvath, A. Houben, A. Huber, V. Igochine, T. Ilkei, I. Ivanova-Stanik, W. Jacob, A. S. Jacobsen, J. Jacquot, F. Janky, A. Jardin, F. Jaulmes, F. Jenko, T. Jensen, E. Joffrin, C. Kasemann, S. Kalvin, M. Kantor, A. Kappatou, O. Kardaun, J. Karhunen, S. Kasilov, W. Kernbichler, D. Kim, S. Kimmig, A. Kirk, H. -J. Klingshirn, F. Koch, G. Kocsis, A. Kohn, M. Kraus, K. Krieger, A. Krivska, A. Kramer-Flecken, T. Kurki-Suonio, B. Kurzan, K. Lackner, F. Laggner, P. T. Lang, P. Lauber, N. Lazanyi, A. Lazaros, A. Lebschy, L. Li, M. Li, Y. Liang, B. Lipschultz, Y. Liu, A. Lohs, N. C. Luhmann, T. Lunt, A. Lyssoivan, J. Madsen, H. Maier, O. Maj, J. Mailloux, E. Maljaars, P. Manas, A. Mancini, A. Manhard, M. -E. Manso, P. Mantica, M. Mantsinen, P. Manz, M. Maraschek, C. Martens, P. Martin, L. Marrelli, A. Martitsch, S. Mastrostefano, A. Mayer, M. Mayer, D. Mazon, P. J. Mccarthy, R. Mcdermott, G. Meisl, H. Meister, A. Medvedeva, P. Merkel, R. Merkel, A. Merle, V. Mertens, D. Meshcheriakov, H. Meyer, O. Meyer, J. Miettunen, D. Milanesio, F. Mink, A. Mlynek, F. Monaco, C. Moon, R. Nazikian, A. Nemes-Czopf, G. Neu, R. Neu, A. H. Nielsen, S. K. Nielsen, V. Nikolaeva, M. Nocente, J. -M. Noterdaeme, S. Nowak, M. Oberkofler, M. Oberparleiter, R. Ochoukov, T. Odstrcil, J. Olsen, F. Orain, F. Palermo, G. Papp, I. Paradela Perez, G. Pautasso, F. Enzel, P. Petersson, J. Pinzon, P. Piovesan, C. Piron, B. Plaum, B. Plockl, V. Plyusnin, G. Pokol, E. Poli, L. Porte, S. Potzel, D. Prisiazhniuk, T. Putterich, M. Ramisch, C. Rapson, J. Rasmussen, G. Raupp, D. Refy, M. Reich, F. Reimold, T. Ribeiro, R. Riedl, D. Rittich, G. Rocchi, M. Rodriguez-Ramos, V. Rohde, A. Ross, M. Rott, M. Rubel, D. Ryan, F. Ryter, S. Saarelma, M. Salewski, A. Salmi, L. Sanchis-Sanchez, G. Santos, J. Santos, O. Sauter, A. Scarabosio, G. Schall, K. Schmid, O. Schmitz, P. A. Schneider, M. Schneller, R. Schrittwieser, M. Schubert, T. Schwarz-Selinger, J. Schweinzer, B. Scott, T. Sehmer, M. Sertoli, A. Shabbir, A. Shalpegin, L. Shao, S. Sharapov, M. Siccinio, B. Sieglin, A. Sigalov, A. Silva, C. Silva, P. Simon, J. Simpson, A. Snicker, C. Sommariva, C. Sozzi, M. Spolaore, M. Stejner, J. Stober, F. Stobbe, U. Stroth, E. Strumberger, G. Suarez, K. Sugiyama, H. -J. Sun, W. Suttrop, T. Szepesi, B. Tal, T. Tala, G. Tardini, M. Tardocchi, D. Terranova, W. Tierens, D. Told, O. Tudisco, G. Trevisan, W. Treutterer, E. Trier, M. Tripsky, M. Valisa, M. Valovic, B. Vanovac, P. Varela, S. Varoutis, G. Verdoolaege, D. Vezinet, N. Vianello, J. Vicente, T. Vierle, E. Viezzer, U. Von Toussaint, D. Wagner, N. Wang, X. Wang, M. Weidl, M. Weiland, A. E. White, M. Willensdorfer, B. Wiringer, M. Wischmeier, R. Wolf, E. Wolfrum, L. Xiang, Q. Yang, Z. Yang, Q. Yu, R. Zagorski, I. Zammuto, D. Zarzoso, W. Zhang, M. Van Zeeland, T. Zehetbauer, M. Zilker, S. Zoletnik, H. Zohm, Asdex Upgrade Team, Eurofusion Mst1 Team
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Nuclear Fusion, 2017, 57 (10), ⟨10.1088/1741-4326/aa64f6⟩
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The ASDEX Upgrade (AUG) programme is directed towards physics input to critical elements of the ITER design and the preparation of ITER operation, as well as addressing physics issues for a future DEMO design. Since 2015, AUG is equipped with a new pair of 3-strap ICRF antennas, which were designed for a reduction of tungsten release during ICRF operation. As predicted, a factor two reduction on the ICRF-induced W plasma content could be achieved by the reduction of the sheath voltage at the antenna limiters via the compensation of the image currents of the central and side straps in the antenna frame. There are two main operational scenario lines in AUG. Experiments with low collisionality, which comprise current drive, ELM mitigation/suppression and fast ion physics, are mainly done with freshly boronized walls to reduce the tungsten influx at these high edge temperature conditions. Full ELM suppression and non-inductive operation up to a plasma current of I-p = 0.8 MA could be obtained at low plasma density. Plasma exhaust is studied under conditions of high neutral divertor pressure and separatrix electron density, where a fresh boronization is not required. Substantial progress could be achieved for the understanding of the confinement degradation by strong D puffing and the improvement with nitrogen or carbon seeding. Inward/outward shifts of the electron density profile relative to the temperature profile effect the edge stability via the pressure profile changes and lead to improved/decreased pedestal performance. Seeding and D gas puffing are found to effect the core fueling via changes in a region of high density on the high field side (HFSHD). The integration of all above mentioned operational scenarios will be feasible and naturally obtained in a large device where the edge is more opaque for neutrals and higher plasma temperatures provide a lower collisionality. The combination of exhaust control with pellet fueling has been successfully demonstrated. High divertor enrichment values of nitrogen E-N >= 10 have been obtained during pellet injection, which is a prerequisite for the simultaneous achievement of good core plasma purity and high divertor radiation levels. Impurity accumulation observed in the all-metal AUG device caused by the strong neoclassical inward transport of tungsten in the pedestal is expected to be relieved by the higher neoclassical temperature screening in larger devices.
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Comparison of detailed experimental wavenumber spectra with gyrokinetic simulation aided by two-dimensional full-wave simulations
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T. Happel, T. Görler, Pascale Hennequin, C. Lechte, Matthias Bernert, G. D. Conway, Simon Freethy, Cyrille Honoré, J R Pinzón, Ulrich Stroth
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Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2017, 59 (5), pp.054009. ⟨10.1088/1361-6587/aa645b⟩
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The importance of using a comprehensive suite of tools for the validation of a gyrokinetic code is described. This is detailed by presenting experimental wavenumber spectra which show pronounced differences, although they are measured at the same toroidal, poloidal and radial location. They are obtained via Doppler reflectometry and the differences are due to the probing beam polarization. These differences are reproduced convincingly using turbulence from a gyrokinetic simulation as input for two-dimensional full-wave simulation. It is demonstrated that the application of synthetic diagnostics is indispensable if non-trivial diagnostics are used in the experiment. Furthermore, the measurement of wavenumber spectra via Doppler reflectometry with X-mode probing beam polarization might be problematic due to nonlinear wave?plasma interactions and should be regarded with care when used for quantitative statements or the validation of gyrokinetic codes.
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E x B staircases and barrier permeability in magnetised plasmas
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G. Hornung, Guilhem Dif-Pradalier, F. Clairet, Y. Sarazin, R. Sabot, Pascale Hennequin, G. Verdoolaege
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Nuclear Fusion, 2017, 57 (1), pp.014006. ⟨10.1088/0029-5515/57/1/014006⟩
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In-depth experimental characterisation of spontaneous shear flow patterning into a so-called ##IMG## [http://ej.iop.org/images/0029-5515/57/1/014006/nfaa42aaieqn003.gif] \mathbfE× \mathbfB staircase?named after its planetary analogue?is shown in magnetised plasma turbulence, using ultrafast-sweeping reflectometry in the Tore Supra tokamak. Staircase signatures are found in a large variety of L-mode plasma conditions. Sensitivity to the dominant source of free energy is highlighted for the first time. A connection between staircase shear layer permeability and deviation from gyro-Bohm confinement scaling is strongly suggested, opening new routes to understanding confinement in drift-wave turbulence.
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DOI : 10.1088/0029-5515/57/1/014006
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Localized reversal of the perpendicular velocity in Tore Supra ohmic, L-mode, limited plasmas
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Elisée Trier, Pascale Hennequin, Özgür D. Gürcan, R. Sabot, J. Bucalossi, Z.O. Guimarães-Filho, C. Bourdelle, F. Clairet, G. Falchetto, C. Fenzi, X. Garbet, P. Maget, Laure Vermare, Team The Tore Supra
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Nuclear Fusion, 2017, 57 (4), pp.046021. ⟨10.1088/1741-4326/aa59bb⟩
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In Tore Supra plasmas, the perpendicular velocity measured by Doppler reflectometry was observed to reverse in a localized zone close to a normalized radius???0.5?0.6, changing from a negative value (corresponding to a negative radial electric field E r ) to a positive value ( ##IMG## [http://ej.iop.org/images/0029-5515/57/4/046021/nfaa59bbieqn001.gif] E_\textr>0 ). This occurs in L-mode, ohmic plasmas with a negligible external momentum input, a non-circular limited cross-section, and an edge safety factor close to 3. This reversal is favoured by a decrease in the magnetic field, or an increase in density. It is accompanied by a characteristic behaviour of the MHD activity signal, whose amplitude decrease during a ramp-down of the edge safety factor as it approaches ##IMG## [http://ej.iop.org/images/0029-5515/57/4/046021/nfaa59bbieqn002.gif] q_a∼ 3.1 ?3.2. A m / n ??=??2/1 mode is involved in the mechanism causing these observations.
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Turbulence characteristics of the I-mode confinement regime in ASDEX Upgrade
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P. Manz, T. Happel, F. Ryter, M. Bernert, G. Birkenmeier, G. D. Conway, M. Dunne, L. Guimarais, Pascale Hennequin, A. Hetzenecker, Cyrille Honoré, P. Lauber, M. Maraschek, V. Nikolaeva, D. Prisiazhniuk, U. Stroth, E. Viezzer
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Nuclear Fusion, 2017, 57 (8), pp.086022. ⟨10.1088/1741-4326/aa7476⟩
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Besides strong geodesic acoustic mode (GAM) activity, turbulence in the I-mode confinement regime of ASDEX Upgrade exhibits two prominent features, the weakly coherent mode (WCM) and strongly intermittent solitary density perturbations. The nonlinear interaction between these structures is studied in detail by means of a conditional averaged wavelet-bicoherence analysis. The wavelet analysis reveals that these density perturbations are at the WCM frequency. The GAM is coupled to all frequency scales of the velocity fluctuations via a modulational instability. The WCM shows coupling to higher frequencies prior to the bursts, indicating a process resembling wave-steepening. A possible mechanism for the generation of such solitary density perturbations by a Korteweg?de Vries-like nonlinearity is discussed.
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DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/aa7476
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Density profile and turbulence evolution during L-H transition studied with the ultra-fast swept reflectometer on ASDEX Upgrade
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A. Medvedeva, C. Bottereau, F. Clairet, Pascale Hennequin, U. Stroth, G. Birkenmeier, M. Cavedon, G D Conway, T. Happel, S. Heuraux, D. Molina, A. Silva, M. Willensdorfer, Asdex Upgrade Team
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Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2017, 59 (12), pp.125014. ⟨10.1088/1361-6587/aa9251⟩
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The ultra-fast swept reflectometer with the sweep time of 1 ? s, inferior to the characteristic turbulent time scale, has provided the measurements of the fast density and density fluctuation evolution across major parts of tokamak plasma radius. The L-H transitions in a series of plasma discharges in ASDEX Upgrade have been studied with a high temporal resolution. The comparison of the density fluctuation behaviour in L- and H-mode is presented. The I-phase oscillation dynamics has been described in terms of the density fluctuation level, the radial electric field and the normalised electron pressure gradient. Indications for a phase shift between the turbulence and the radial electric field are observed in the beginning of the I-phase, where the turbulence grows first and the radial electric field increase follows. In the established I-phase the electric field and the turbulence are in phase.
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Explaining the isotope effect on heat transport in L-mode with the collisional electron-ion energy exchange
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Philip Schneider, Andres Bustos, Pascale Hennequin, F. Ryter, Matthias Bernert, Marco Cavedon, M. Dunne, R. Fischer, T. Görler, T. Happel, V. Igochine, B. Kurzan, A. Lebschy, R.M. Mcdermott, Pierre Morel, M. Willensdorfer, Team The Asdex Upgrade, Team The Eurofusion Mst1
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Nuclear Fusion, 2017, 57 (6), pp.066003. ⟨10.1088/1741-4326/aa65b3⟩
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In ASDEX Upgrade (AUG), the normalised gyroradius ##IMG## [http://ej.iop.org/images/0029-5515/57/6/066003/nfaa65b3ieqn001.gif] ρ_★ was varied via a hydrogen isotope scan while keeping other dimensionless parameters constant. This was done in L-mode, to minimise the impact of pedestal stability on confinement. Power balance and perturbative transport analyses reveal that the electron heat transport is unaffected by the differences in isotope mass. Nonlinear simulations with the G ene code suggest that these L-mode discharges are ion temperature gradient (ITG) dominated. The different gyroradii due to the isotope mass do not necessarily result in a change of the predicted heat fluxes. This result is used in simulations with the A stra transport code to match the experimental profiles. In these simulations the experimental profiles and confinement times are reproduced with the same transport coefficients for hydrogen and deuterium plasmas. The mass only enters in the energy exchange term between electrons and ions. These numerical observations are supported by additional experiments which show a lower ion energy confinement compared to that of the electrons. Additionally, hydrogen and deuterium plasmas have a similar confinement when the energy exchange time between electrons and ions is matched. This strongly suggests that the observed isotope dependence in L-mode is not dominated by a gyroradius effect, but a consequence of the mass dependence in the collisional energy exchange between electrons and ions.
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DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/aa65b3
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The I-mode confinement regime at ASDEX Upgrade: global properties and characterization of strongly intermittent density fluctuations
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T. Happel, P. Manz, F. Ryter, M. Bernert, M. Dunne, Pascale Hennequin, A. Hetzenecker, U. Stroth, G. D. Conway, L. Guimarais, Cyrille Honoré, E. Viezzer
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Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2017, 59 (1), pp.014004. ⟨10.1088/0741-3335/59/1/014004⟩
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Properties of the I-mode confinement regime on the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak are summarized. A weak dependence of the power threshold for the L-I transition on the toroidal magnetic field strength is found. During improved confinement, the edge radial electric field well deepens. Stability calculations show that the I-mode pedestal is peeling-ballooning stable. Turbulence investigations reveal strongly intermittent density fluctuations linked to the weakly coherent mode in the confined plasma, which become stronger as the confinement quality increases. Across all investigated structure sizes ( ##IMG## [http://ej.iop.org/images/0741-3335/59/1/014004/ppcfaa3b87ieqn001.gif] k_\bot≈ 5 ?12?cm ?1 , with ##IMG## [http://ej.iop.org/images/0741-3335/59/1/014004/ppcfaa3b87ieqn002.gif] k_\bot the perpendicular wavenumber of turbulent density fluctuations), the intermittent turbulence bursts are observed. Comparison with bolometry data shows that they move poloidally toward the X-point and finally end up in the divertor. This might be indicative that they play a role in inhibiting the density profile growth, such that no pedestal is formed in the edge density profile.
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Conference papers

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Validation studies of ion-scale GENE simulations in L-mode plasmas at ASDEX Upgrade
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Simon Freethy, A. J. Creely, T. Görler, G. D. Conway, T. Happel, Pascale Hennequin, J R Pinzón, D. Prisiazhniuk, U. Stroth, A. E. White, The Asdex Upgrade Team
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44th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics, Jun 2017, Belfast, Ireland. pp.O4.122
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Poloidal asymmetry of perpendicular velocity of the density fluctuations
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Laure Vermare, Pascale Hennequin, Özgür D. Gürcan, Cyrille Honoré, Pierre Morel, A. Storelli, F. Clairet, X. Garbet, J-C. Giacalone, R. Sabot
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44th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics, Jun 2017, Belfast, Ireland
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Investigation of turbulence properties via spectral broadening of Doppler reflectometry signals in ASDEX Upgrade
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G. D. Conway, C. Lechte, Pascale Hennequin, P. Simon, The Asdex Upgrade Team
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44th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics, Jun 2017, Belfast, Ireland. pp.O2.107
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Isotope dependence of limit-cycle oscillations in ASDEX Upgrade plasmas
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G. Birkenmeier, T. Happel, Pascale Hennequin, G. D. Conway, P. Manz, M. Cavedon, A. Medvedeva, F. Ryter, E. Wolfrum, U. Stroth, The Asdex Upgrade Team
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44th European Physical Society Conference on Plasma Physics, Jun 2017, Belfast, Ireland. pp.P1.166
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Inter-ELM Fluctuations and Flows and their evolution when approaching the density limit in the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak
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Pascale Hennequin, F. Laggner, F. Mink, E. Wolfrum, Elisée Trier, T. Eich, M. Bernert, G. Birkenmeier, G. D. Conway, T. Happel, Cyrille Honoré, Özgür D. Gürcan, P. Manz, A. Medvedeva, U. Stroth, The Asdex Upgrade Team, The Eurofusion Mst1 Team
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44th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics, Jun 2017, Belfast, Ireland. pp.P1.167
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ELM-induced cold pulses propagation in ASDEX Upgrade
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Elisée Trier, E. Wolfrum, M. Willensdorfer, Q. Yu, F. Ryter, C. Angioni, M. Dunne, S. Denk, R. Fischer, Pascale Hennequin, B. Kurzan, T. Odstrcill, P. Schneider, U. Stroth, B. Vanovac, The Asdex Upgrade Team, The Eurofusion Mst1 Team
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44th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics, Jun 2017, Belfast, Ireland. pp.P1.163
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Fluctuation measurements in Laboratory Plasmas
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Pascale Hennequin
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Ecole de Physique des Houches, From Laboratories to Astrophysics : the expanding universe of plasma physics, May 2017, Les Houches, France
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Measurements of density fluctuations in magnetic confined plasmas using Doppler backscattering technique
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Laure Vermare, Pascale Hennequin, Cyrille Honoré, V. Pisarev, J-C. Giacalone
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ECPD, 2017, Bordeaux, France
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Understanding of wavenumber spectra measured by Doppler reflectometry through simulation and related estimation of wave-plasma interaction regimes.
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T. Happel, T. Görler, Pascale Hennequin, C. Lechte, J R Pinzón, M. Bernert, G. D. Conway, Simon Freethy, Cyrille Honoré, U. Stroth, The Asdex Upgrade Team
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13th International Reflectometry Workshop for Fusion Plasma Diagnostics (IRW13), 2017, Daejon, Korea, Unknown Region
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2016

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Turbulence intermittency linked to the weakly coherent mode in ASDEX Upgrade I-mode plasmas
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T. Happel, P. Manz, F. Ryter, Pascale Hennequin, A. Hetzenecker, G. D. Conway, L. Guimarais, Cyrille Honoré, U. Stroth, E. Viezzer, Team The Asdex Upgrade
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Nuclear Fusion, 2016, 56 (6), pp.064004. ⟨10.1088/0029-5515/56/6/064004⟩
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This letter shows for the first time a pronounced increase of extremely intermittent edge density turbulence behavior inside the confinement region related to the I-mode confinement regime in the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak. With improving confinement, the perpendicular propagation velocity of density fluctuations in the plasma edge increases together with the intermittency of the observed density bursts. Furthermore, it is shown that the weakly coherent mode, a fluctuation feature generally observed in I-mode plasmas, is connected to the observed bursts. It is suggested that the large amplitude density bursts could be generated by a non-linearity similar to that in the Korteweg?de-Vries equation which includes the radial temperature gradient.
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Interesting Physics in Boring Plasmas: Validation & Open Issues
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Guilhem Dif-Pradalier, Ph. Ghendrih, Y. Sarazin, P.H. Diamond, X. Garbet, V. Grandgirard, Özgür D. Gürcan, Pascale Hennequin, Pierre Morel, Laure Vermare
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21st Joint EU-US Transport Task Force Meeting, Sep 2016, Leysin, Switzerland
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Density profile and turbulence evolution during L-H transition studied with the Ultra-fast swept reflectometer on ASDEX Upgrade
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Anna Medvedeva, G. Birkenmeier, C. Bottereau, M. Cavedon, F. Clairet, G. D. Conway, Pascale Hennequin, S. Heuraux, D. Molina, A. Silva, U. Stroth, The Asdex Upgrade Team
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43rd EPS Conference on Plasma Physics, Jul 2016, Leuven, Belgium. pp.P1.032
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The I-mode confinement regime at ASDEX Upgrade: global properties and characterization of strongly intermittent density fluctuations
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T. Happel, P. Manz, F. Ryter, M. Bernert, M. Dunne, Pascale Hennequin, A. Hetzenecker, G. Stroth, G. D. Conway, L. Guimarais, Cyrille Honoré, E. Viezzer, The Asdex Upgrade Team
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43rd EPS Conference on Plasma Physics, Jul 2016, Leuven, Belgium. pp.I1.101
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Isotope effect on confinement unraveled for L-mode in dimensionless ρ⋆ scan
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Philip Schneider, Andreas Bustos, Pascale Hennequin, F. Ryter, M. Bernert, Marco Cavedon
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43rd EPS Conference on Plasma Physics, Jul 2016, Leuven, Belgium. pp.O4.135
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O- and X-mode Radial Correlation Doppler Reflectometry in 2D Full Wave Simulations and Experiments
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Javier Pinzon, T. Happel, Pascale Hennequin, E. Blanco, T. Estrada, U. Stroth
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43rd EPS Conference on Plasma Physics, Jul 2016, Leuven, Belgium. pp.P1.052
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Poster communications

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Dynamique prédateur proie dans les plasmas de fusion magnétique
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Pierre Morel, Sumire Kobayashi, Peter Donnel, Vincent Berionni, Cyrille Honoré, V. Pisarev, Pascale Hennequin, Özgür D. Gürcan
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Congrès de le Division Plasmas de la Société Française de Physique, Jun 2016, Nancy, France. 2016
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Comparaisons simulation expérience : application d'un diagnostic synthétique de Rétro-Diffusion Doppler au plasma Tore Supra #45511 simulé par le code gyrocinétique GYSELA
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Pierre Morel, Banda Gassama, Robin Leybros, Guilhem Dif-Pradalier, Pascale Hennequin, Laure Vermare, Özgür D. Gürcan, V. Grandgirard, G. Latu, Y. Sarazin, Ph. Ghendrih, X. Garbet
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Congrès de la Division Plasmas de la Société Française de Physique, Jun 2016, Nancy, France. 2016
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Predator Prey Dynamics in Magnetized Fusion Plasmas
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Pierre Morel, Sumire Kobayashi, Peter Donnel, Vincent Berionni, Cyrille Honoré, V. Pisarev, Pascale Hennequin, Özgür D. Gürcan
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Vlasovia, May 2016, Copanello, Italy. 2016
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Synthetic diagnostic of Doppler Back-Scattering measurements on the Tore Supra Plasma #TS45511 with a dedicated GYSELA non-linear gyrokinetic simulation
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Pierre Morel, Banda Gassama, Robin Leybros, Guilhem Dif-Pradalier, Pascale Hennequin, Laure Vermare, Özgür D. Gürcan, V. Grandgirard, G. Latu, Y. Sarazin, Ph. Ghendrih, X. Garbet
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Vlasovia, May 2016, Copanello, Italy. 2016
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2015

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WEST Physics Basis
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C. Bourdelle, J.F. Artaud, Vincent Basiuk, M. Bécoulet, S. Brémond, J. Bucalossi, H. Bufferand, G. Ciraolo, L. Colas, Y. Corre, X. Courtois, J. Decker, L. Delpech, P. Devynck, Guilhem Dif-Pradalier, R.P. Doerner, D. Douai, Rémi Dumont, A. Ekedahl, N. Fedorczak, C. Fenzi, M. Firdaouss, J. Garcia, Philippe Ghendrih, C. Gil, G. Giruzzi, M. Goniche, C. Grisolia, A. Grosman, D. Guilhem, R. Guirlet, J. Gunn, Pascale Hennequin, J. Hillairet, T. Hoang, Frédéric Imbeaux, Irena Ivanova-Stanik, E. Joffrin, A. Kallenbach, J. Linke, T. Loarer, P. Lotte, P. Maget, Yannick Marandet, M.L. Mayoral, O. Meyer, M. Missirlian, P. Mollard, P. Monier-Garbet, P. Moreau, Eric Nardon, B. Pégourié, Y. Peysson, R. Sabot, F. Saint-Laurent, M. Schneider, J. M. Travère, E. Tsitrone, S. Vartanian, Laure Vermare, M. Yoshida, R. Zagorski, Contributors Jet
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Nuclear Fusion, 2015, 55 (6), pp.063017. ⟨10.1088/0029-5515/55/6/063017⟩
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With WEST (Tungsten Environment in Steady State Tokamak) (Bucalossi et al 2014 Fusion Eng. Des. 89 [http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fusengdes.2014.01.062] 907?12 ), the Tore Supra facility and team expertise (Dumont et al 2014 Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 56 [http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/0741-3335/56/7/075020] 075020 ) is used to pave the way towards ITER divertor procurement and operation. It consists in implementing a divertor configuration and installing ITER-like actively cooled tungsten monoblocks in the Tore Supra tokamak, taking full benefit of its unique long-pulse capability. WEST is a user facility platform, open to all ITER partners. This paper describes the physics basis of WEST: the estimated heat flux on the divertor target, the planned heating schemes, the expected behaviour of the L?H threshold and of the pedestal and the potential W sources. A series of operating scenarios has been modelled, showing that ITER-relevant heat fluxes on the divertor can be achieved in WEST long pulse H-mode plasmas.
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DOI : 10.1088/0029-5515/55/6/063017
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Geodesic acoustic modes in a fluid model of tokamak plasma: the effects of finite beta and collisionality
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Rameswar Singh, A. Storelli, Özgür D. Gürcan, Pascale Hennequin, Laure Vermare, Pierre Morel, R. Singh
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Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2015, 57, pp.125002. ⟨10.1088/0741-3335/57/12/125002⟩
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Starting from the Braginskii equations, relevant for the tokamak edge region, a complete set of nonlinear equations for the geodesic acoustic modes (GAM) has been derived which includes collisionality, plasma beta and external sources of particle, momentum and heat. Local linear analysis shows that the GAM frequency increases with collisionality at low radial wave number and decreases at high . GAM frequency also decreases with plasma beta. Radial profiles of GAM frequency for two Tore Supra shots, which were part of a collisionality scan, are compared with these calculations. A discrepancy between experiment and theory is observed, which seems to be explained by a finite for the GAM when flux surface averaged density \langle n\rangle and temperature are assumed to vanish. It is shown that this agreement is incidental and self-consistent inclusion of and responses enhances the disagreement more with at high . So the discrepancy between the linear GAM calculation and experiment, (which also persist for more 'complete' linear models such as gyrokinetics) can probably not be resolved by simply adding a finite .
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DOI : 10.1088/0741-3335/57/12/125002
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Finding the Elusive E × B Staircase in Magnetized Plasmas
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Guilhem Dif-Pradalier, G Hornung, Philippe Ghendrih, Yanick Sarazin, F Clairet, L Vermare, P H Diamond, J Abiteboul, T Cartier-Michaud, C Ehrlacher, Daniel Estève, Xavier Garbet, Virginie Grandgirard, Özgür D. Gürcan, P Hennequin, Y Kosuga, Guillaume Latu, P Maget, Pierre Morel, C Norscini, R Sabot, A. Storelli
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Physical Review Letters, 2015, 114, pp.085004. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.085004⟩
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Turbulence in hot magnetized plasmas is shown to generate permeable localized transport barriers that globally organize into the so-called "ExB staircase" [G. Dif-Pradalier et al., Phys. Rev. E, 82, 025401(R) (2010)]. Its domain of existence and dependence with key plasma parameters is discussed theoretically. Based on these predictions, staircases are observed experimentally in the Tore Supra tokamak by means of high-resolution fast-sweeping X-mode reflectometry. This observation strongly emphasizes the critical role of mesoscale self-organization in plasma turbulence and may have far-reaching consequences for turbulent transport models and their validation.
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DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.085004
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Comprehensive comparisons of geodesic acoustic mode characteristics and dynamics between Tore Supra experiments and gyrokinetic simulations
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A. Storelli, Laure Vermare, Pascale Hennequin, Özgür D. Gürcan, Guilhem Dif-Pradalier, Y. Sarazin, X. Garbet, T. Görler, Rameswar Singh, Pierre Morel, Virginie Grandgirard, Philippe Ghendrih, Team Tore Supra
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Physics of Plasmas, 2015, 22 (6), ⟨10.1063/1.4922845⟩
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In a dedicated collisionality scan in Tore Supra, the geodesic acoustic mode (GAM) is detected and identified with the Doppler backscattering technique. Observations are compared to the results of a simulation with the gyrokinetic code GYSELA. We found that the GAM frequency in experiments is lower than predicted by simulation and theory. Moreover, the disagreement is higher in the low collisionality scenario. Bursts of non harmonic GAM oscillations have been characterized with filtering techniques, such as the Hilbert-Huang transform. When comparing this dynamical behaviour between experiments and simulation, the probability density function of GAM amplitude and the burst autocorrelation time are found to be remarkably similar. In the simulation, where the radial profile of GAM frequency is continuous, we observed a phenomenon of radial phase mixing of the GAM oscillations, which could influence the burst autocorrelation time.
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DOI : 10.1063/1.4922845
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Experimental turbulence studies for gyro-kinetic code validation using advanced microwave diagnostics
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U. Stroth, A. Bañón Navarro, G. D. Conway, T. Görler, T. Happel, Pascale Hennequin, C. Lechte, P. Manz, P. Simon, A. Biancalani, E. Blanco, C. Bottereau, F. Clairet, S. Coda, T. Eibert, T. Estrada, A. Fasoli, L. Guimarais, Özgür D. Gürcan, Z. Huang, F. Jenko, W. Kasparek, C. Koenen, A. Krämer-Flecken, M.-E. Manso, A. Medvedeva, D. Molina, V. Nikolaeva, B. Plaum, L. Porte, D. Prisiazhniuk, T. Ribeiro, B.D. Scott, U. Siart, A. Storelli, Laure Vermare, S. Wolf
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Nuclear Fusion, 2015, 55 (8), pp.083027. ⟨10.1088/0029-5515/55/8/083027⟩
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For a comprehensive comparison with theoretical models and advanced numerical turbulence simulations, a large spectrum of fluctuation parameters was measured on the devices ASDEX Upgrade, TCV, and Tore-Supra. Radial profiles of scale-resolved turbulence levels in H-mode discharges are measured and compared with GENE simulations in the transition range from ion-temperature-gradient to trapped-electron-mode turbulence. Correlation reflectometry is used to study the microscopic structure of turbulence and GAMs in discharges where poloidal flow damping was varied by means of variations of the shape of the poloidal plasma cross-section and collisionality. Full-wave codes and synthetic diagnostics are applied for the interpretation of the data.
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Investigation of drift velocity effects on the EDGE and SOL transport
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R. Leybros, Hugo Bufferand, Guido Ciraolo, Nicolas Fedorczak, Philippe Ghendrih, Pascale Hennequin, Yannick Marandet, Eric Serre, Frédéric Schwander, Patrick Tamain
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Journal of Nuclear Materials, 2015, 463, pp.489-492. ⟨10.1016/j.jnucmat.2014.10.079⟩
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To understand the mechanisms behind poloidal asymmetries of the transport in the edge and SOL plasma, it is important to take into account drift velocity in the transport model. We investigate the effects of an imposed radial electric field on the plasma equilibrium in the transport code SOLEDGE2D. In the edge, we show an important modification of the flow pattern due to poloidal E × B drift velocity. The drift velocity generates asymmetry of the density through the Pfirsch–Schluter flows which creates an important parallel rotation through the viscous balance. In comparison to heat load imbalance studies in the SOL of divertor tokamak, a strong link between the amplitude of the radial electric field and the heat load imbalance in the SOL of limiter tokamak has been highlighted using different amplitude of the imposed radial electric field.
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DOI : 10.1016/j.jnucmat.2014.10.079
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Structure and scaling of GAMs in TCV, Satellite Workshop of the 42nd EPS Plasma Physics Conference, on Electric Fields, Turbulence and Self-Organisation in Magnetized Plasmas (Lisbon) (2015),
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Z. Huang, S. Coda, G. Merlo, C. A. de Meijere, J.P. Graves, Stephan Brunner, M. Fontana, L. Porte, Laure Vermare, Ludovic Villard, C. Wahlberg, J. Dominski, Pascale Hennequin, A. Kraemer-Flecken
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Satellite Workshop of the 42nd EPS Plasma Physics Conference, on Electric Fields, Turbulence and Self-Organisation in Magnetized Plasmas (EFTSOMP), Jun 2015, Lisbon, Portugal
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The electromagnetic geodesic acoustic mode in the eigenmode and multimode regimes in TCV.
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S. Coda, Z. Huang, Stephan Brunner, C. A. de Meijere, J. Dominski, G. Merlo, L. Porte, Laure Vermare, L. Fontana, Pascale Hennequin, A. Kraemer-Flecken, Ludovic Villard
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42nd EPS Conference on Plasma Physics, Jun 2015, Lisbon, Portugal. pp.I1.101
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Experimental Study of Turbulence spatial structure and its scaling with rho
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Pascale Hennequin, Philip Schneider, T. Happel, F. Ryter, Gregor Birkenmeier, Andres Bustos, Anna Medvedeva, G. D. Conway, Christine Bottereau, F. Clairet, Guilhem Dif-Pradalier, F. Jenko, X. Garbet, T. Görler, Luis Guimarais, Özgür D. Gürcan, Cyrille Honoré, Pierre Morel, V. Nikolaeva, D. Prisiazhniuk, P. Simon, Ulrich Stroth, Laure Vermare, The Asdex Upgrade Team
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42nd EPS Conference on Plasma Physics, Jun 2015, Lisbon, Portugal. pp.I1.102
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Observation of Strongly Intermittent Density Turbulence in ASDEX Upgrade I-mode plasmas.
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T. Happel, A. Hetzenecker, P. Manz, Pascale Hennequin, F. Ryter, M. Bernert, G. D. Conway, S. Fietz, Cyrille Honoré, U. Stroth, E. Viezzer, The Asdex Upgrade Team
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12th International Reflectometry Workshop, May 2015, Jülich, Germany
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Modeling of Radial Correlation Doppler Reflectometry response to density turbulence wave number spectra
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Javier Pinzon, E. Blanco, T. Happel, G. D. Conway, T. Estrada, Pascale Hennequin, U. Stroth, The Asdex Upgrade Team
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12th International Reflectometry Workshop, May 2015, Jülich, Germany
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Turbulence spatial structure and its scaling with rho
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Pascale Hennequin, Philip Schneider, T. Happel, F. Ryter, G. Birkenmeier, A. Medvedeva, G. D. Conway, C. Bottereau, F. Clairet, L. Guimarais, Özgür D. Gürcan, Cyrille Honoré, Pierre Morel, V. Nikolaeva, D. Prisiazhniuk, U. Stroth, Laure Vermare, Team Asdex Upgrade
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12th International Reflectometry Workshop, May 2015, Jülich, Germany
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Observation of Strongly Intermittent Density Turbulence in ASDEX Upgrade I-mode plasmas
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T. Happel, A. Hetzenecker, P. Manz, Pascale Hennequin, F. Ryter, M. Bernert, G. D. Conway, S. Fietz, Cyrille Honoré, U. Stroth, E. Viezzer, The Asdex Upgrade Team
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20th EU-US Transport Task Force meeting., Apr 2015, Salem, Massachusetts, United States
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Experimental Study of Turbulence spatial structure and its scaling with rho
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Pascale Hennequin, Philip Schneider, T. Happel, F. Ryter, G. Birkenmeier, A. Medvedeva, G. D. Conway, C. Bottereau, F. Clairet, L. Guimarais, Özgür D. Gürcan, Cyrille Honoré, Pierre Morel, V. Nikolaeva, D. Prisiazhniuk, U. Stroth, Laure Vermare, Team Asdex Upgrade
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20th EU-US Transport Task Force meeting, Apr 2015, Salem, Massachusetts, United States
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Synthetic Doppler backscattering diagnostic for fluid turbulent simulations
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Robin Leybros, G. Ciraolo, C. Colin, Pascale Hennequin, Y. Marandet, Pierre Morel, P. Tamain, Laure Vermare
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Turbulence, magnetic fields and self organization in laboratory and astrophysical plasmas, Mar 2015, Les Houches, France
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Proceedings

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The Plasma E × B Staircase: Turbulence Self-Regulation through Spontaneous Flow Patterning
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Guilhem Dif-Pradalier, G Hornung, Philippe Ghendrih, R Clairet, P H Diamond, Yanick Sarazin, L Vermare, J Abiteboul, T Cartier-Michaud, C Ehrlacher, D Estève, Xavier Garbet, Virginie Grandgirard, Özgür D. Gürcan, P Hennequin, Y Kosuga, Guillaume Latu, Pierre Morel, C Norscini, R Sabot
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42nd European Physical Society Conference on Plasma Physics, Lisbon, Portugal, France. 2015
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The E × B staircase [1, 2] is a spontaneously formed, turbulence-driven self-organising pattern of quasi-regular, long-lived and localised shear flow [3] and stress layers. These layers coincide with long-lived pressure corrugations and are interspersed between regions of turbulent avalanching. The typical spacing between these layers is mesoscale, noted ∆ ∼ 25 − 30ρ i [1, 4] —in-between the turbulence auto-correlation length c ∼ 5ρ i at micro scales and the profile macroscale L 100ρ i , see e.g. Fig.2 in [1]— and sets the outer scale of the turbulent avalanching. Here ρ i is ion Larmor radius. Whilst arresting, statistically, to mesoscales the detrimental avalanching these layers, located at the " steps of the staircase " are beneficial to confinement. The E×B staircase is thus best understood as a self-organising and dynamical set of weak or permeable transport barriers. Strong mean zonal flows are generated and endure at the steps of the staircase, resulting in localised deviations of the poloidal flow from its oft-assumed neoclassical prediction [5].
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Further details on the plasma E × B staircase
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Guilhem Dif-Pradalier, G Hornung, Philippe Ghendrih, Yanick Sarazin, F Clairet, L Vermare, P H Diamond, J Abiteboul, T Cartier-Michaud, C Ehrlacher, D Esteve, Xavier Garbet, Virginie Grandgirard, Özgür D. Gürcan, P Hennequin, A Kosuga, Guillaume Latu, Pierre Morel, C Norscini, R Sabot, A. Storelli
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7th IAEA Technical Meeting on "Theory of Plasmas Instabilities", Frascati, Italy, Mar 2015, France. 2015
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Turbulence in hot magnetised plasmas spontaneously has been shown to spontaneously organise on global scales into the so-called " E × B staircase ". Further characterisation of this structure is detailed below.
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2014

Journal articles

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Phase space structures in gyrokinetic simulations of plasma turbulence
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Philippe Ghendrih, C. Norscini, T. Cartier-Michaud, Guilhem Dif-Pradalier, J. Abiteboul, Yue Dong, X. Garbet, Özgür D. Gürcan, Pascale Hennequin, Virginie Grandgirard, G. Latu, Pierre Morel, Y. Sarazin, A. Storelli, Laure Vermare
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The European Physical Journal D : Atomic, molecular, optical and plasma physics, 2014, 68 (10), pp.303. ⟨10.1140/epjd/e2014-50210-8⟩
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Gyrokinetic simulations of fusion plasmas give extensive information in 5D on turbulence and transport. This paper highlights a few of these challenging physics in global, flux driven simulations using experimental inputs from Tore Supra shot TS45511. The electrostatic gyrokinetic code GYSELA is used for these simulations. The 3D structure of avalanches indicates that these structures propagate radially at localised toroidal angles and then expand along the field line at sound speed to form the filaments. Analysing the poloidal mode structure of the potential fluctuations (at a given toroidal location), one finds that the low modes m = 0 and m = 1 exhibit a global structure; the magnitude of the m = 0 mode is much larger than that of the m = 1 mode. The shear layers of the corrugation structures are thus found to be dominated by the m = 0 contribution, that are comparable to that of the zonal flows. This global mode seems to localise the m = 2 mode but has little effect on the localisation of the higher mode numbers. However when analysing the pulsation of the latter modes one finds that all modes exhibit a similar phase velocity, comparable to the local zonal flow velocity. The consequent dispersion like relation between the modes pulsation and the mode numbers provides a means to measure the zonal flow. Temperature fluctuations and the turbulent heat flux are localised between the corrugation structures. Temperature fluctuations are found to exhibit two scales, small fluctuations that are localised by the corrugation shear layers, and appear to bounce back and forth radially, and large fluctuations, also readily observed on the flux, which are associated to the disruption of the corrugations. The radial ballistic velocity of both avalanche events if of the order of 0.5ρ∗c0 where ρ∗ = ρ0/a, a being the tokamak minor radius and ρ0 being the characteristic Larmor radius, ρ0 = c0/Ω0. c0 is the reference ion thermal velocity and Ω0 = qiB0/mi the reference ion Larmor frequency for the characteristic amplitude of the magnetic field B0, qi and mi being, respectively, the ion charge and mass. The electric drift velocity is also found to exhibit a poloidal pattern, with maximum amplitude of the fluctuations either in the top or in the bottom regions of the machine depending on the sign of the zonal flow shear. This effect is found to be correlated to the stopping capability of the corrugation structures. The neoclassical properties stemming from the trapped particle drifts lead to large distortion of the distribution function. As expected, these prevail at the outer part of the simulation region despite the large collisionality. The distribution function fluctuations appear to be aligned along the v∥ = const. lines at constant poloidal angle. A specific symmetry is observed regarding the interplay of turbulence with the trapped-passing region.
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Complete multi-field characterization of the geodesic acoustic mode in the TCV tokamak
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C. A. de Meijere, S. Coda, Z. Huang, Laure Vermare, T. Vernay, V. Vuille, Stephan Brunner, J. Dominski, Pascale Hennequin, A. Kraemer-Flecken, G. Merlo, L. Porte, Laurent Villard
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Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2014, 56 (7), pp.072001. ⟨10.1088/0741-3335/56/7/072001⟩
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The geodesic acoustic mode (GAM) is a coherently oscillating zonal flow that may regulate turbulence in toroidal plasmas. Uniquely, the complete poloidal and toroidal structure of the magnetic component of the turbulence-driven GAM has been mapped in the TCV tokamak. Radially localized measurements of the fluctuating density, ECE radiative temperature and poloidal flow show that the GAM is a fully coherent, radially propagating wave. These observations are consistent with electrostatic, gyrokinetic simulations.
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DOI : 10.1088/0741-3335/56/7/072001
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Conference papers

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Preparing ITER Tungsten Divertor Operation in Tore Supra: Physics Basis for the WEST Project.
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E. Tsitrone, C. Bourdelle, J. Bucalossi, R. Guirlet, J.-F. Artaud, V. Basiuk, M. Bécoulet, H. Bufferand, G. Ciraolo, Y. Corre, J. Decker, Guilhem Dif-Pradalier, R. Dumond, A. Ekedahl, N. Fedorczak, M. Firdaouss, J. Garcia, Ph. Ghendrih, G. Giruzzi, C. Grisolia, A. Grosman, Pascale Hennequin, Frédéric Imbeaux, P. Maget, Y. Marandet, O. Meyer, M. Missirlian, E. Nardon, B. Pégourié, M. Schneider, R. Zagorski
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25th Fusion Energy Conference (FEC 2014), Oct 2014, Saint Petersburg, Russia. pp.EX/P5-48
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Spatial Propagation of Turbulence and Formation of Mesoscopic Structures in Plasma Turbulence
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Guilhem Dif-Pradalier, Ph. Ghendrih, P.H. Diamond, X. Garbet, V. Grandgirard, C. Norscini, F. Palermo, Y. Sarazin, J. Abiteboul, Yue Dong, Özgür D. Gürcan, Pascale Hennequin, Pierre Morel, Laure Vermare, Y. Kosuga
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KITP program : Wave-Flow Interaction in Geophysics, Climate, Astrophysics and Plasmas, 2014, KALVI Institute, Santa Barbara, California, United States
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Poster communications

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Spatial structure of turbulence and its scaling with rho* : observations using radial correlation Doppler reflectometry on ASDEX Upgrade
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Pascale Hennequin, T. Happel, P. Schneider, G. D. Conway, F. Ryter, U. Stroth, Cyrille Honoré, Laure Vermare, Özgür D. Gürcan, Pierre Morel
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19th Joint EU−US Transport Task Force Meeting (TTF14), Sep 2014, Culham, Great britain, Unknown Region. 2014
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GAM frequency and dynamics compared between Tore Supra experiments and a GYSELA simulation
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A. Storelli, Laure Vermare, Pascale Hennequin, Guilhem Dif-Pradalier, Özgür D. Gürcan, Y. Sarazin, V. Grandgirard, Rameswar Singh, Pierre Morel, X. Garbet, Ph. Ghendrih, C. Bourdelle, Team Tore Supra
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EU-US Joint Transport Task Force, Sep 2014, Culham, United Kingdom. 2014
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Investigation of drift velocity effects on the EDGE and SOL transport.
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Robin Leybros, H. Bufferand, G. Ciraolo, N. Fedorczak, Ph. Ghendrih, Pascale Hennequin, Y. Marandet, E. Serre, F. Schwander, P. Tamain
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21st International Conference on Plasma Surface Interactions, 2014, Unknown, Japan. 2014
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2013

Journal articles

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Angular momentum transport modeling: achievements of a gyrokinetic quasi-linear approach
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P. Cottier, C. Bourdelle, Y. Camenen, Özgür D. Gürcan, F.J. Casson, Xavier Garbet, P. Hennequin, T. Tala
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Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2013, 56, pp.015011. ⟨10.1088/0741-3335/56/1/015011⟩
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QuaLiKiz, a model based on a local gyrokinetic eigenvalue solver is expanded to include momentum flux modeling in addition to heat and particle fluxes. Essential for accurate momentum flux predictions, the parallel asymmetrization of the eigenfunctions is successfully recovered by an analytical fluid model. This is tested against self-consistent gyrokinetic calculations and allows for a correct prediction of the E×B shear impact on the saturated potential amplitude by means of a mixing length rule. Hence, the effect of the E×B shear is recovered on all the transport channels including the induced residual stress. Including these additions, QuaLiKiz remains ∼10 000 faster than non-linear gyrokinetic codes allowing for comparisons with experiments without resorting to high performance computing. The example is given of momentum pinch calculations in NBI modulation experiments.
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DOI : 10.1088/0741-3335/56/1/015011
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Interaction of plasma transport and turbulence on particle fuelling
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Patrick Tamain, Gérard Bonhomme, Frédéric Brochard, Frédéric Clairet, C. Gil, J. Gunn, P. Hennequin, G. Hornung, J. L. Segui, L. Vermare, Philippe Ghendrih, Tore Supra Team
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Journal of Nuclear Materials, 2013, 438 (S), pp.S148-S154. ⟨10.1016/j.jnucmat.2013.01.023⟩
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We report the results of an experimental investigation of the impact of Supersonic Molecular Beam Injection in the Tore Supra tokamak. Several diagnostics were synchronised with the injection to extract a global picture of the physics at play from the time scale of turbulence (similar to 10 mu s) to the full-recovery time (similar to 1 s). As previously reported, a strong impact of the injection on density and temperature profiles is observed. Both fields exhibit a complex dynamic response involving different phases and time scales. In particular, we show that the effective particle fuelling efficiency is determined by a period of degraded confinement that follows the injection, during which the edge density collapses, in some cases, lower than the initial one. This phase is characterised by a dramatic change in the turbulent transport, with a drop of the frequency spectrum and the observation of large coherent structures as opposed to small intermittent fluctuations before the injection.
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DOI : 10.1016/j.jnucmat.2013.01.023
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Dynamics of tilted eddies in a transversal flow at the edge of tokamak plasmas and the consequences for L-H transition
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N. Fedorczak, Philippe Ghendrih, Pascale Hennequin, G.R. Tynan, P.H. Diamond, P. Manz
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Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2013, 55 (12), pp.124024. ⟨10.1088/0741-3335/55/12/124024⟩
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The dynamical interaction between eddies and shear flow is investigated through a simplified model of vorticity conservation with tilted eddies. Energy is transferred either to the flow or to eddies, depending on the eddy tilt with respect to the flow shear. When eddies are tilted in the shear direction, the system is favorable to shear increase: tilt instability (TI) or the negative viscosity phenomenon. When eddies are tilted in the opposite direction, the shear flow is damped via a Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) process. The TI generally dominates the interaction on the largest radial scale, but a fraction of the energy cascades to smaller radial scales through the alternation of tilting and KH dynamics. Within this eddy description, we show that the symmetry breaking required to generate a net residual stress is set by the intrinsic eddy tilt. We recall that magnetic shear can provide an intrinsic tilt to ballooning modes at the edge of tokamak plasmas, with an orientation which depends on flux surface geometry. In L-mode weak shear regimes, this residual stress can dominate the Reynolds stress. Coupled to momentum sources acting in the scrape-off layer, it can induce a significant difference of the edge radial electric field between lower single null and upper single null geometries. A comparison with experimental profiles measured across the edge of Tore Supra L-mode plasmas is discussed.
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DOI : 10.1088/0741-3335/55/12/124024
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Transport of radial heat flux and second sound in fusion plasmas
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Özgür D. Gürcan, P.H. Diamond, X. Garbet, Vincent Berionni, Guilhem Dif-Pradalier, Pascale Hennequin, Pierre Morel, Y. Kosuga, Laure Vermare
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Physics of Plasmas, 2013, 20, pp.022307. ⟨10.1063/1.4792161⟩
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Simple flux-gradient relations that involve time delay and radial coupling are discussed. Such a formulation leads to a rather simple description of avalanches and may explain breaking of gyroBohm transport scaling. The generalization of the flux-gradient relation (i.e., constitutive relation), which involve both time delay and spatial coupling, is derived from drift-kinetic equation, leading to kinetic definitions of constitutive elements such as the flux of radial heat flux. This allows numerical simulations to compute these cubic quantities directly. The formulation introduced here can be viewed as an extension of turbulence spreading to include the effect of spreading of cross-phase as well as turbulence intensity, combined in such a way to give the flux. The link between turbulence spreading and entropy production is highlighted. An extension of this formulation to general quasi-linear theory for the distribution function in the phase space of radial position and parallel velocity is also discussed.
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DOI : 10.1063/1.4792161
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Structure of nonlocality of plasma turbulence
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Özgür D. Gürcan, Laure Vermare, Pascale Hennequin, Vincent Berionni, P.H. Diamond, Guilhem Dif-Pradalier, X. Garbet, Philippe Ghendrih, Virginie Grandgirard, C.J. Mcdevitt, Pierre Morel, Y. Sarazin, A. Storelli, C. Bourdelle, Team Tore Supra
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Nuclear Fusion, 2013, 53, pp.073029. ⟨10.1088/0029-5515/53/7/073029⟩
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Various indications on the weakly nonlocal character of turbulent plasma transport both from experimental fluctuation measurements from Tore Supra and observations from the full-f, flux-driven gyrokinetic code GYSELA are reported. A simple Fisher equation model of this weakly nonlocal dynamics can be formulated in terms of an evolution equation for the turbulent entropy density, which contains the basic phenomenon of radial turbulence spreading in addition to avalanche-like dynamics via coupling to profile modulations. A derivation of this model, which contains the so-called beach effect, a diffusive and convective flux components for the flux of turbulence intensity, in addition to linear group propagation is given, starting from the drift-kinetic equation. The proposed model has the form of a transport equation for turbulence intensity, and may be considered as an addition to transport modelling. The kinetic fluxes given, can be computed using model closures, or local gyrokinetics. The model is also used in a particular setup that represents the near edge region as a relatively stable zone between the core and edge region where the energy injection is locally more substantial. It is observed that with constant, physical coefficients, the model gives a convincing qualitative profile of fluctuation intensity when the turbulence is coming from the core region with either a group velocity or a convective flux.
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DOI : 10.1088/0029-5515/53/7/073029
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Investigation of drift velocity effects on the EDGE and SOL transport
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Leybros R., Hugo Bufferand, Ciraolo G., Nicolas Fedorczak, Philippe Ghendrih, P. Hennequin, Marandet Y., Serre E., Schwander F., Patrick Tamain
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21st International Conference on Plasma Surface Interactions in Controlled Fusion Devices (21st PSI), Nov 2013, Kanazawa City, Japan
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Geometrical aspects of the turbulence at the edge of tokamak plasmas and consequences on L-H transition threshold
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N. Fedorczak, P.H. Diamond, G.R. Tynan, P. Manz, Pascale Hennequin, G.S. Xu, J. Bucalossi, Laure Vermare
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40th European Physical Society Conference on Plasma Physics, Jul 2013, Espoo, Finland
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Multi-diagnostic characterization of geodesic acoustic modes in the TCV tokamak
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Z. Huang, C. A. de Meijere, S. Coda, Laure Vermare, T. Vernay, V. Vuille, Stephan Brunner, Pascale Hennequin, A. Kraemmer-Flecken, L. Porte
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40th EPS Conf. on Plasma Physics, Jul 2013, Espoo, Finland
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Observation of a poloidal asymmetry of fluctuation perpendicular velocity measured by Doppler backscattering on Tore Supra plasmas
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A. Storelli, Pascale Hennequin, Laure Vermare, Özgür D. Gürcan, Team Tore Supra
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11th International Reflectometry Workshop (IRW11), Apr 2013, Palaiseau, France
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The optimized steerable W-band Doppler reflectometer on ASDEX Upgrade: possibilities and issues
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T. Happel, G. D. Conway, Pascale Hennequin, Cyrille Honoré, J-C. Giacalone, P. Simon, U. Stroth, Laure Vermare, The Asdex Upgrade Team
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11th International Reflectometry Workshop (IRW11), Apr 2013, Palaiseau, France
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Doppler backscattering measurements on TCV
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Laure Vermare, S. Coda, Pascale Hennequin, K. de Meijere, Cyrille Honoré, J-C. Giacalone, Team Tcv
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11th International Reflectometry Workshop (IRW11), Apr 2013, Palaiseau, France
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Damping of Geodesic Acoustic Modes.
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Laure Vermare, Pascale Hennequin, Özgür D. Gürcan, Pierre Morel, Team Tore Supra
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U.S.-E.U. Joint Transport Task Force Workshop, Apr 2013, Santa Rosa, California, United States
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Spatial propagation of turbulence and formation of mesoscopic structures in GK simulations
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Guilhem Dif-Pradalier, Ph. Ghendrih, P.H. Diamond, X. Garbet, V. Grandgirard, F. Palermo, Y. Sarazin, Antoine Strugarek, J. Abitboul, Özgür D. Gürcan, Pascale Hennequin, Pierre Morel, Laure Vermare
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U.S. - E.U. Joint Transport Task Force Workshop, Apr 2013, Santa Rosa, California, United States
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Geodesic acoustic modes:ffsimultaneous observation of density,ff magnetic-field, and flow componentsff in the TCV tokamak
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S. Coda, K. de Meijere, Z. Huang, Laure Vermare, T. Vernay, V. Vuille, Stephan Brunner, J. Dominski, Pascale Hennequin, A. Krämer-Flecken, G. Merlo, L. Porte
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U.S.-E.U. Joint Transport Task Force Workshop, Apr 2013, Santa Rosa, California, United States
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Radial correlation of density fluctuations by coupling IPP and LPP W-band Doppler reflectometers on ASDEX Upgrade
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Pascale Hennequin, T. Happel, G. D. Conway, Cyrille Honoré, Laure Vermare, V. Pisarev, J-C. Giacalone, Özgür D. Gürcan, Team Asdex Upgrade
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11th International Reflectometry Workshop (IRW11), 2013, Palaiseau, France
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2012

Journal articles

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Detection of geodesic acoustic mode oscillations, using multiple signal classification analysis of doppler backscattering signal on tore supra
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Laure Vermare, Pascale Hennequin, Özgür D. Gürcan, Team Tore Supra
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Nuclear Fusion, 2012, 52, pp.063008. ⟨10.1088/0029-5515/52/6/063008⟩
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This paper presents the first observation of geodesic acoustic modes (GAMs) on Tore Supra plasmas. Using the Doppler backscattering system, the oscillations of the plasma flow velocity, localized between r/a = 0.85 and r/a = 0.95, and with a frequency, typically around 10 kHz, have been observed at the plasma edge in numerous discharges. When the additional heating power is varied, the frequency is found to scale with Cs/R. The MUltiple SIgnal Classification (MUSIC) algorithm is employed to access the temporal evolution of the perpendicular velocity of density fluctuations. The method is presented in some detail, and is validated and compared against standard methods, such as the conventional fast Fourier transform method, using a synthetic signal. It stands out as a powerful data analysis method to follow the Doppler frequency with a high temporal resolution, which is important in order to extract the dynamics of GAMs.
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DOI : 10.1088/0029-5515/52/6/063008
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Indications of Nonlocality of Plasma Turbulence
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Özgür D. Gürcan, Laure Vermare, Pascale Hennequin, Vincent Berionni, P.H. Diamond, G. Dif-Pradelier, X. Garbet, Ph. Ghendrih, V. Grandgirard, C.J. Mcdevitt, Pierre Morel, Y. Sarazin, A. Storelli, C. Bourdelle, Team Tore Supra
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24th Fusion Energy Conference, Oct 2012, San Diego, Califormia, United States
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Is "near edge" transport non-local?
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Özgür D. Gürcan, Laure Vermare, Pascale Hennequin, Vincent Berionni, P.H. Diamond, G. Dif-Pradelier, X. Garbet, Ph. Ghendrih, V. Grandgirard, C.J. Mcdevitt, Pierre Morel, Y. Sarazin, A. Storelli, C. Bourdelle, Team Tore Supra
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17th Joint EU-US Transport Task Force Meeting, Sep 2012, Padova, Italy
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Study of GAMs on Tore Supra using Doppler backscattering
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Laure Vermare, Pascale Hennequin, Özgür D. Gürcan, A. Storelli
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17th Joint EU-US Transport Task Force Meeting, Sep 2012, Padova, Italy
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New regime of small scale density fluctuations in presence of electron heating in Tore Supra.
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Pascale Hennequin, Laure Vermare, Özgür D. Gürcan, Pierre Morel, A. Storelli, C. Bourdelle, R. Dumont, Team Tore Supra
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39th European Physical Society Conference & 16th Int. Congress on Plasma Physics, Jul 2012, Stockholm, Sweden
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Modulation of GAM frequency observed on Tore Supra using Doppler backscattering
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Laure Vermare, Pascale Hennequin, Özgür D. Gürcan, A. Storelli, Team Tore Supra
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US Transport Taskforce Workshop Meeting TTF 2012, Apr 2012, Annapolis, United States
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Poster communications

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Dependence of properties of Geodesic Acoustic Modes (GAM) on SOL and edge flows in Tore Supra
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A. Storelli, Pascale Hennequin, Özgür D. Gürcan, Laure Vermare, Team Tore Supra
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17th Joint EU-US Transport Task Force Meeting, Sep 2012, Padova, Italy. 2012
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RF driven rotation in Tore Supra
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C. Fenzi, B. Chouli, R. Dumont, D. Elbeze, Z. Guimaraes-Filho, Pascale Hennequin, P. Lotte, P. Maget, Team Tore Supra
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17th Joint EU-US Transport Task Force Meeting, Sep 2012, Padova, Italy. 2012
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New regime of small scale density fluctuations in presence of electron heating in Tore Supra
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Pascale Hennequin, Laure Vermare, Özgür D. Gürcan, Pierre Morel, A. Storelli, C. Bourdelle, R. Dumont, Team Tore Supra
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17th Joint EU-US Transport Task Force Meeting, Sep 2012, Padova, Italy. 2012
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2011

Journal articles

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On plasma rotation with toroidal magnetic field ripple and no external momentum input
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C. Fenzi, X. Garbet, Elisée Trier, Pascale Hennequin, C. Bourdelle, Thierry Aniel, G. Colledani, P. Devynck, C. Gil, Özgür D. Gürcan, L. Manenc, M. Schneider, J.-L. Segui, Team Tore Supra
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Nuclear Fusion, 2011, 51, pp.103038. ⟨10.1088/0029-5515/51/10/103038⟩
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Ripple-induced thermal loss effect on plasma rotation is investigated in a set of Ohmic L-mode plasmas performed in Tore Supra, and comparisons with neoclassical predictions including ripple are performed. Adjusting the size of the plasma, the ripple amplitude has been varied from 0.5% to 5.5% at the plasma boundary, keeping the edge safety factor constant. The toroidal flow dynamics is understood as being likely dominated by turbulence transport driven processes at low ripple amplitude, while the ripple-induced toroidal friction becomes dominant at high ripple. In the latter case, the velocity tends remarkably towards the neoclassical prediction (counter-current rotation). The radial electric field is not affected by the ripple variation and remains well described by its neoclassical prediction. Finally, the poloidal velocity is of the order of the neoclassical prediction at high ripple amplitude, but significantly departs from it at low ripple.
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DOI : 10.1088/0029-5515/51/10/103038
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Collisionality scaling in Tore Supra: detailed energy confinement analysis, turbulence measurements and gyrokinetic modelling
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C. Bourdelle, T. Gerbaud, Laure Vermare, A. Casati, Thierry Aniel, J.F. Artaud, Vincent Basiuk, J. Bucalossi, F. Clairet, Y. Corre, P. Devynck, G. Falchetto, C. Fenzi, X. Garbet, R. Guirlet, Özgür D. Gürcan, S. Heuraux, Pascale Hennequin, G.T. Hoang, Frédéric Imbeaux, L. Manenc, P. Monier-Garbet, P. Moreau, R. Sabot, J.-L. Segui, A. Sirinelli, D. Villegas, Team Tore Supra
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Nuclear Fusion, 2011, 51, pp.063037. ⟨10.1088/0029-5515/51/6/063037⟩
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This paper presents the first observation of geodesic acoustic modes (GAMs) on Tore Supra plasmas. Using the Doppler backscattering system, the oscillations of the plasma flow velocity, localized between r/a = 0.85 and r/a = 0.95, and with a frequency, typically around 10 kHz, have been observed at the plasma edge in numerous discharges. When the additional heating power is varied, the frequency is found to scale with Cs/R. The MUltiple SIgnal Classification (MUSIC) algorithm is employed to access the temporal evolution of the perpendicular velocity of density fluctuations. The method is presented in some detail, and is validated and compared against standard methods, such as the conventional fast Fourier transform method, using a synthetic signal. It stands out as a powerful data analysis method to follow the Doppler frequency with a high temporal resolution, which is important in order to extract the dynamics of GAMs.
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Wavenumber spectrum of micro-turbulence in tokamak plasmas / Spectre en nombre d'onde de la micro-turbulence dans les plasmas de tokamak
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Laure Vermare, Özgür D. Gürcan, Pascale Hennequin, Cyrille Honoré, X. Garbet, J-C. Giacalone, R. Sabot, F. Clairet, Team Tore Supra
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Comptes Rendus. Physique, 2011, 12 (2), pp.115 - 122. ⟨10.1016/j.crhy.2010.11.003⟩
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A better understanding of turbulent transport in a tokamak plasma requires precise comparisons between experimental observation and theoretical prediction of micro-turbulence characteristics. The repartition of fluctuation energy over different spatial scales, which contains detailed information about the character of underlying instabilities and the mechanisms involved in energy transfer between different scales, is one of the few quantities allowing a high detail comparison. The present article reports the investigation performed on the Tore Supra tokamak on the wavenumber spectrum of micro-turbulence using Doppler backscattering. The theoretical approach consists of the derivation of spectral models that include interactions between fluctuations and large scale flow structures. Une meilleure compréhension du transport turbulent dans les plasmas de tokamak exige des comparaisons précises entre les observations expérimentales et les prédictions théoriques des caractéristiques de la micro-turbulence. La répartition de lʼénergie des fluctuations sur les différentes échelles spatiales, qui contient des informations sur le type instabilités sous-jacentes et sur les mécanismes de transfert dʼénergie entre échelles spatiales, est lʼune des rares quantités permettant une comparaison de niveau élevé. Cet article présente le travail mené sur le tokamak Tore Supra sur lʼétude du spectre en nombre dʼonde de la micro-turbulence mesuré par rétro-diffusion Doppler. Lʼapproche théorique consiste en la dérivation de modéles spectraux qui inclut les interactions entre les fluctuations et les structures dʼécoulement de grandes échelles.
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DOI : 10.1016/j.crhy.2010.11.003
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Impact of collisionality on fluctuation characteristics of micro-turbulence
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Laure Vermare, Pascale Hennequin, Özgür D. Gürcan, C. Bourdelle, F. Clairet, X. Garbet, R. Sabot, Team Tore Supra
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Physics of Plasmas, 2011, 18, pp.012306. ⟨10.1063/1.3536648⟩
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The influence of changing collisionality on density fluctuation characteristics is studied during dedicated ν∗ scaling experiments, using Doppler backscattering system. First, the repartition of fluctuation energy over different spatial scales, as represented by the wavenumber spectrum, is investigated and a modification of the shape of the perpendicular wavenumber spectrum in the low wavenumber part of the spectrum is observed when changing collisionality. In addition, a new procedure to evaluate the dispersion relation of micro-turbulence is presented. From the behavior of the perpendicular mean velocity of density fluctuations with the perpendicular wavenumber, different dispersion relations are obtained between low and high collisionality cases.
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DOI : 10.1063/1.3536648
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Conference papers

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Impact of collisionality on characteristics of micro-turbulence on Tore Supra
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Laure Vermare, Pascale Hennequin, Özgür D. Gürcan, Cyrille Honoré, C. Bourdelle, F. Clairet, X. Garbet, J-C. Giacalone, R. Sabot, Y. Sarazin, T. Goërler, F. Jenko
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38th European Physical Society Conference on Plasma Physics, Jun 2011, Strasbourg, France
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k spectra in Tore Supra : experiments, theory and modelling
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Pascale Hennequin
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Workshop on Electric Fields, Turbulence and Self-Organisation in Magnetized Plasmas, Jun 2011, Strasbourg, France
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Fluctuation characteristics of micro-turbulence on Tore Supra using Doppler backscattering system
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Laure Vermare, Pascale Hennequin, Özgür D. Gürcan, Cyrille Honoré, W. Ensing, C. Bourdelle, F. Clairet, X. Garbet, J.-C. Giaccalone, R. Sabot, Team Tore Supra
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10th International Reflectometry Workshop IRW10, May 2011, Padova, Italy
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Flows and perpendicular velocity properties observed by Doppler reflectometry on Tore Supra
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Pascale Hennequin, Laure Vermare, Özgür D. Gürcan, Elisée Trier, W. Ensing, J-C. Giacalone, N. Fedorczak, J. Bernardo, C. Fenzi, J. Gunn
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10th International Reflectometry Workshop IRW10, May 2011, Padova, Italy
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Core turbulence in Tokamak plasmas : observations by EM wave scattering, reflectometry and others
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Pascale Hennequin
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Les Houches Winter School « Dynamics and turbulent transport in plasmas and conducting fluids », Feb 2011, Les Houches, France
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Impact of collisionality on fluctuation characteristics of micro-turbulence
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Laure Vermare, Pascale Hennequin, Özgür D. Gürcan, Cyrille Honoré, Vincent Berionni
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Les Houches Winter School « Dynamics and turbulent transport in plasmas and conducting fluids, Feb 2011, Les Houches, France
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Evolution of micro-turbulence characteristics with collisionality at the tokamak core-edge interface
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Laure Vermare, Pascale Hennequin, Özgür D. Gürcan, Cyrille Honoré, Vincent Berionni, C. Bourdelle, A. Casati, F. Clairet, X. Garbet, J-C. Giacalone, R. Sabot, Team Tore Supra
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Joint US-EU Transport Taskforce Workshop TTF 2011, 2011, San Diego, California, USA, Unknown Region
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2010

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Une recherche ITER...ative
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Pascale Hennequin
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Pour la science, 2010, 392
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Residual parallel Reynolds stress due to turbulence intensity gradient in tokamak plasmas
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Özgür D. Gürcan, P.H. Diamond, Pascale Hennequin, C.J. Mcdevitt, X. Garbet, C. Bourdelle
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Physics of Plasmas, 2010, 17, pp.112309. ⟨10.1063/1.3503624⟩
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A novel mechanism for driving residual stress in tokamak plasmas based on k∥ symmetry breaking by the turbulence intensity gradient is proposed. The physics of this mechanism is explained and its connection to the wave kinetic equation and the wave-momentum flux is described. Applications to the H-mode pedestal in particular to internal transport barriers, are discussed. Also, the effect of heat transport on the momentum flux is discussed.
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DOI : 10.1063/1.3503624
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Particle transport in low core turbulence Tore-Supra plasmas
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R. Guirlet, A. Sirinelli, T. Parisot, R. Sabot, J.F. Artaud, C. Bourdelle, X. Garbet, Pascale Hennequin, G.T. Hoang, Frédéric Imbeaux, J.-L. Segui, D. Mazon, D. Villegas
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Nuclear Fusion, 2010, 50, pp.095009. ⟨10.1088/0029-5515/50/9/095009⟩
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Electron and impurity transport has been studied in sawtoothing plasmas in the Tore-Supra tokamak. High time and space resolution measurements of the electron density reveal the existence of a flat profile region encompassing the q = 1 surface, on which is superimposed a density peak building up between sawtooth relaxations. For the first time in this regime, we have determined the underlying transport of both nickel and electrons independently of the effect of sawteeth in the central part of the plasma. Electron transport is consistent with the neoclassical expectations only in the close vicinity of the magnetic axis. Further out, it exceeds the neoclassical values as calculated with the NCLASS code, although the turbulence level is very low in the whole central region region. In contrast, nickel transport is in good agreement with the neoclassical calculations in the same region. The neoclassical effect on trapped particles of a persisting mode due to incomplete reconnection of the magnetic surfaces is consistent with these observations.
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DOI : 10.1088/0029-5515/50/9/095009
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Plasmas de Fusion Magnétique
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Pascale Hennequin
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FlashX, 2010, 12, pp.25-26
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ISSN : 1775-0385
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Error analysis of dimensionless scaling experiments with multiple points using linear regression
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Özgür D. Gürcan, Laure Vermare, Pascale Hennequin, C. Bourdelle
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Nuclear Fusion, 2010, 50, pp.022003. ⟨10.1088/0029-5515/50/2/022003⟩
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A general method of error estimation in the case of multiple point dimensionless scaling experiments, using linear regression and standard error propagation, is proposed. The method reduces to the previous result of Cordey (2009 Nucl. Fusion 49 052001) in the case of a two-point scan. On the other hand, if the points follow a linear trend, it explains how the estimated error decreases as more points are added to the scan. Based on the analytical expression that is derived, it is argued that for a low number of points, adding points to the ends of the scanned range, rather than the middle, results in a smaller error estimate.
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DOI : 10.1088/0029-5515/50/2/022003
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Entropy production rate in tokamaks with nonaxisymmetric magnetic fields
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X. Garbet, J. Abiteboul, Elisée Trier, Özgür D. Gürcan, Y. Sarazin, A. Smolyakov, S. Allfrey, C. Bourdelle, C. Fenzi, Virginie Grandgirard, Philippe Ghendrih, Pascale Hennequin
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Physics of Plasmas, 2010, 17, pp.072505. ⟨10.1063/1.3454365⟩
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A variational principle based on an extremum of entropy production rate is derived for an integrable Hamiltonian system in the presence of two perturbations, which are resonant on neighboring or identical resonant surfaces. This method can be used to calculate the neoclassical transport in a magnetic fusion device with a nonaxisymmetric magnetic field. When applied to a tokamak with ripple, it provides an efficient means to discriminate between various regimes, depending on collisionality and ripple amplitude. This technique provides a means to test simplified collision operators suitable for gyrokinetic codes. It is found that these operators need only satisfy modest requirements in order to recover the correct neoclassical equilibrium, at least in the large aspect ratio limit. Finally, it appears that the toroidal viscous damping rate due to ripple is usually not negligible, thus removing the degeneracy between the radial electric field and the toroidal velocity.
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DOI : 10.1063/1.3454365
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Shell models and the possibility of application to fusion plasmas
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Özgür D. Gürcan, Pascale Hennequin, Laure Vermare, X. Garbet, P.H. Diamond
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Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2010, 52, pp.045002. ⟨10.1088/0741-3335/52/4/045002⟩
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An extensive study of spectral shell models with possibilities for application to fusion plasmas is discussed. A set of shell models addressing various aspects of the characteristics of fusion plasmas have been derived. Difficulties associated with plasma medium, namely its intrinsic excitability, and importance of mescals have been discussed. The numerical implementation of shell models is discussed. It was observed that depending on the parameter regime, they may lead to steady state or display characteristics of predatorprey dynamics.
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Conference papers

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On Plasma Rotation with Toroidal Magnetic Field Ripple and no External Momentum Input
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C. Fenzi, X. Garbet, Elisée Trier, Pascale Hennequin, C. Bourdelle, T. Aniel, G. Colledani, P. Devynck, C. Gil, Özgür D. Gürcan, M. Schneider, J.-L. Ségui, The Tore Supra Team
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23rd IAEA Fusion Energy Conference, Oct 2010, Daejon, Korea, Unknown Region
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Dynamics of wave-number spectrum of plasma turbulence
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Özgür D. Gürcan, Pascale Hennequin, Laure Vermare, A. Casati, G. Falchetto, X. Garbet, C. Bourdelle, P.H. Diamond
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23rd IAEA Fusion Energy Conference, Oct 2010, Daejon, Korea, Unknown Region
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Impact of collisionality on fluctuation characteristics of micro-turbulence
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Laure Vermare, Pascale Hennequin, Özgür D. Gürcan, C. Bourdelle, F. Clairet, X. Garbet, R. Sabot, Team Tore Supra
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23rd IAEA Fusion Energy Conference, Oct 2010, Daejon, Korea, Unknown Region
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A renormalized quasi-linear approach to turbulent transport in tokamaks
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Özgür D. Gürcan, A. Casati, Laure Vermare, M. Ottaviani, C. Bourdelle, Pascale Hennequin, Y. Sarazin, S. Allfrey, X. Garbet, P.H. Diamond
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15th EU-US Transport Task Force Meeting and 3rd Transport Topical Group Meeting, Sep 2010, Córdoba, Spain
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The effect of SOL flows on edge and core radial electric field and rotation in Tore Supra
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Pascale Hennequin, Laure Vermare, N. Fedorczak, J. Bernardo, Özgür D. Gürcan, Elisée Trier, C. Fenzi, J. Gunn, P. Monier-Garbet, R. Ghendrih, X. Garbet
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37th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics, Jun 2010, Dublin, Ireland
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Fluctuations measurements from Doppler Reflectometry On Tore Supra
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Pascale Hennequin
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2010 International Conf. on Plasma Diag, Apr 2010, Pont-à Mousson, France
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Turbulence measurements during dimensionless parameters scans on Tore Supra using Doppler reflectometry
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Laure Vermare, Pascale Hennequin, Özgür D. Gürcan, Cyrille Honoré, C. Bourdelle, T. Aniel, F. Clairet, R. Dumont, C. Fenzi, R. Sabot, Team Tore Supra
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URSI 2010 Journées Scientifiques Propagation et Plasmas, Mar 2010, Paris, France
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Shell Models and the possibility of application to fusion plasmas
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Özgür D. Gürcan, Pascale Hennequin, X. Garbet, P.H. Diamond, Laure Vermare, A. Casati, G. Falchetto
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URSI 2010 Journées Scientifiques Propagation et Plasmas, Mar 2010, Paris, France
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Measurements and Modeling of Turbulent Transport in the Tore Supra Tokamak
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X. Garbet, J. Abiteboul, S. Benkadda, C. Bourdelle, A. Casati, F. Clairet, N. Dubuit, G. Falchetto, C. Fenzi, S. Futatani, V. Grandgirard, R. Guirlet, Özgür D. Gürcan, Pascale Hennequin, S. Heuraux, G.T. Hoang, Cyrille Honoré, R. Sabot, Y. Sarazin, J.-L. Ségui, A. Smolyakov, Elisée Trier, Laure Vermare, D. Villegas
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INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON WAVES, COHERENT STRUCTURES AND TURBULENCE IN PLASMAS, Jan 2010, Gandhinagar, India. pp.75-84, ⟨10.1063/1.3526165⟩
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This paper presents an overview of recent advances in modeling and measurements of turbulence in Tore Supra plasmas. Spatio‐temporal properties of turbulence are discussed in relation with transport models. An explanation is proposed for the k−3 decay of wave number spectra, which are observed by using both coherent laser scattering and Doppler reflectometry. Also the interplay between turbulence and flows has been investigated. It is shown that toroidal rotation results from a competition between neoclassical and turbulence flow generation. Finally a new method has been proposed to determine the transport coefficients of impurities. These coefficients are usually well above the neoclassical prediction.
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Impact of collisionality on fluctuations characteristics of micro-turbulence
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Laure Vermare, Pascale Hennequin, Özgür D. Gürcan, Cyrille Honoré, C. Bourdelle, F. Clairet, C. Fenzi, X. Garbet, R. Sabot, Team Tore Supra
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15th EU-US Transport Task Force Meeting and 3rd Transport Topical Group Meeting, Sep 2010, Córdoba, Spain. 2010
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2009

Journal articles

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FLUCTUATION MEASUREMENTS AND THEIR LINK WITH TRANSPORT ON TORE SUPRA
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R. Sabot, Pascale Hennequin, L. Colas
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Fusion Science and Technology, 2009, 56 (3), pp.1253-1272
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Measurement of turbulence properties provides key insight to understand anomalous transport in magnetic fusion devices. On Tore Supra, scattering diagnostics and reflectometers have been used to measure density fluctuations in the plasma core. A cross-polarization scattering diagnostic was also the first diagnostic to measure the turbulence magnetic fluctuations in a fusion plasma core. This paper presents the principle and the experimental setup of these diagnostics, with chosen results illustrating their capabilities to determine the spatial structure of the turbulence and to assess the link between energy transport and fluctuations. These flexible and complementary measurements made it possible to analyze the confinement and fluctuation scaling laws with non-dimensional parameters, which requires a wide variety of plasma conditions.
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Turbulence in the TORE SUPRA Tokamak: Measurements and Validation of Nonlinear Simulations
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A. Casati, T. Gerbaud, P. Hennequin, Stéphane Heuraux
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Physical Review Letters, 2009, 102, pp.165005
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Turbulence measurements in TORE SUPRA tokamak plasmas have been quantitatively compared to predictions by nonlinear gyrokinetic simulations. For the first time, numerical results simultaneously match within experimental uncertainty (a) the magnitude of effective heat diffusivity, (b) rms values of density fluctuations, and (c) wave-number spectra in both the directions perpendicular to the magnetic field. Moreover, the nonlinear simulations help to revise as an instrumental effect the apparent experimental evidence of strong turbulence anisotropy at spatial scales of the order of ion-sound Larmor radius.
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Wave-Number Spectrum of Drift-Wave Turbulence
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Özgür D. Gürcan, X. Garbet, Pascale Hennequin, P.H. Diamond, A. Casati, G. L. Falchetto
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Physical Review Letters, 2009, 102, pp.255002. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.255002⟩
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A simple model for the evolution of turbulence fluctuation spectra, which includes neighboring interactions leading to the usual dual cascade as well as disparate scale interactions corresponding to refraction by large scale structures, is derived. The model recovers the usual Kraichnan-Kolmogorov picture in the case of exclusively local interactions and midrange drive. On the other hand, when disparate scale interactions are dominant, a simple spectrum for the density fluctuations of the form |nk|2∝k−3/(1 k2)2 is obtained. This simple prediction is then compared to, and found to be in fair agreement with, Tore Supra CO2 laser scattering data.
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DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.255002
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Validating a quasi-linear transport model versus nonlinear simulations
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A. Casati, C. Bourdelle, X. Garbet, Frédéric Imbeaux, J. Candy, F. Clairet, Guilhem Dif-Pradalier, G. Falchetto, T. Gerbaud, Virginie Grandgirard, Özgür D. Gürcan, Pascale Hennequin, J. Kinsey, M. Ottaviani, R. Sabot, Y. Sarazin, Laure Vermare, R. E. Waltz
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Nuclear Fusion, 2009, 49, pp.085012. ⟨10.1088/0029-5515/49/8/085012⟩
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In order to gain reliable predictions on turbulent fluxes in tokamak plasmas, physics based transport models are required. Nonlinear gyrokinetic electromagnetic simulations for all species are still too costly in terms of computing time. On the other hand, interestingly, the quasi-linear approximation seems to retain the relevant physics for fairly reproducing both experimental results and nonlinear gyrokinetic simulations. Quasi-linear fluxes are made of two parts: (1) the quasi-linear response of the transported quantities and (2) the saturated fluctuating electrostatic potential. The first one is shown to follow well nonlinear numerical predictions; the second one is based on both nonlinear simulations and turbulence measurements. The resulting quasi-linear fluxes computed by QuaLiKiz (Bourdelle et al 2007 Phys. Plasmas 14 112501) are shown to agree with the nonlinear predictions when varying various dimensionless parameters, such as the temperature gradients, the ion to electron temperature ratio, the dimensionless collisionality, the effective charge and ranging from ion temperature gradient to trapped electron modes turbulence.
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Gyrokinetic quasi-linear modelling of transport
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C. Bourdelle, A. Casati, Frédéric Imbeaux, X. Garbet, J. Candy, F. Clairet, Thomas Gerbaud, V. Grandgirard, Özgür D. Gürcan, Pascale Hennequin, R. Sabot, Y. Sarazin, Laure Vermare, R. E. Waltz
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13th European Fusion Theory Conference, Oct 2009, Riga, Latvia
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Scaling of Turbulence and Transport on Tore Supra with dimensionless parameters rho* and nu
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Laure Vermare, C. Bourdelle, Pascale Hennequin, J.F. Artaud, V. Basiuk, F. Clairet, P. Devynck, G. Falchetto, C. Fenzi, Frédéric Imbeaux, P. Monier-Garbet, Özgür D. Gürcan, R. Sabot, M. Schubert, J.-L. Ségui, Team Tore Supra
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36th EPS Conference On Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, Jun 2009, Sofia, Bulgaria
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Observation of a localized radial electric field inversion in Tore Supra plasmas
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Elisée Trier, Pascale Hennequin, C. Fenzi, Özgür D. Gürcan, R. Sabot, P. Maget, J. Bucalossi, X. Garbet, F. Clairet, Laure Vermare, C. Bourdelle, Z. Ghimares-Filho, G. Falchetto, G. Huysmans
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36th EPS Conference On Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, Jun 2009, Sofia, Bulgaria
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Turbulence in Tore Supra plasmas: measurements and validation of nonlinear simulations
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A. Casati, T. Gerbaud, Pascale Hennequin, C. Bourdelle, J. Candy, F. Clairet, X. Garbet, V. Grandgirard, Özgür D. Gürcan, S. Heuraux, G.T. Hoang, Cyrille Honoré, Frédéric Imbeaux, R. Sabot, Y. Sarazin, Laure Vermare, R. E. Waltz
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36th EPS Conference On Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion., Jun 2009, Sofia, Bulgaria
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A first comparison between probes, fast imaging, and reflectometry synchronous measurements of edge turbulence in Tore Supra
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F. Brochard, N. Fedorczak, Gildas Bonhomme, F. Clairet, M. Farge, Ph. Ghendrih, J. Gunn, Pascale Hennequin, S. Heuraux, N. Lemoine, P. Monier-Garbet, R. Nguyen, S. Oldenburger, Laure Vermare
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36th EPS Conference on Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, Jun 2009, Sofia, Bulgaria
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Heat and Particle Transport Experiments in Tore Supra and HL-2A with ECRH and SMBI
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X. L. Zou, S. Song, G. Giruzzi, X. Garbet, Cyrille Honoré, J.-L. Ségui, D. Elbeze, F. Clairet, R. Sabot, J. Bucalossi, Pascale Hennequin, M. Lenholm, R. Magne, Team Tore Supra
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36th EPS Conf. On Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, Jun 2009, Sofia, Bulgaria
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Turbulence measurements during dimensionless parameters scans on Tore Supra using Doppler reflectometry
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Laure Vermare, Pascale Hennequin, Özgür D. Gürcan, Cyrille Honoré, C. Bourdelle, T. Aniel, F. Clairet, R. Dumont, C. Fenzi, R. Sabot, Team Tore Supra
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9th International Reflectometry workshop IRW9, May 2009, Lisbon, Portugal
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On plasma rotation in tokamak with magnetic field ripple and no external momentum input
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C. Fenzi, Elisée Trier, T. Aniel, C. Bourdelle, F. Clairet, G. Falchetto, X. Garbet, C. Gil, Özgür D. Gürcan, Pascale Hennequin, J. Lasalle, R. Sabot, J.-L. Ségui, Laure Vermare, Team Tore Supra
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US Transport Task Force Meeting, Apr 2009, San Diego, California, United States
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High k spectra in Tore Supra : experiment, theory and modelling
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Pascale Hennequin, Laure Vermare, Özgür D. Gürcan, Elisée Trier, Cyrille Honoré, C. Bourdelle, A. Casati, G. Dumont, G. Falchetto, X. Garbet, R. Sabot, F. Clairet, Team Tore Supra
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US Transport Task Force Meeting, Apr 2009, San Diego, California, United States
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http://ttf2009.ucsd.edu/working/abₛtorage/afterₚresentation/HennequinTTF09.pdf
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Observation of a localized radial electric field inversion in Tore Supra plasmas.
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Elisée Trier, Pascale Hennequin, C. Fenzi, Özgür D. Gürcan, R. Sabot, P. Maget, J. Bucalossi, X. Garbet, F. Clairet, Laure Vermare, C. Bourdelle, Z. Guimaraes-Filho, G. Falchetto, G. Huysmans
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US Transport Task Force Meeting TTF, Apr 2009, San Diego, California, United States
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http://ttf2009.ucsd.edu/working/abₛtorage/afterₚresentation/trier_TTF09.pdf
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Long range correlation studies : Tore Supra contribution, DREVE project
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Laure Vermare, Pascale Hennequin, Özgür D. Gürcan, Cyrille Honoré, R. Sabot, J-C. Giacalone, Team Tore Supra
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2nd EFDA Transport Topical Group Meeting., 2009, Culham, UK, Unknown Region
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Cascade models in plasma turbulence: The role of sheared flows
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Özgür D. Gürcan, X. Garbet, Pascale Hennequin, P.H. Diamond, A. Casati
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Joint EU-US Transport Task Force Workshop TTF, 2009, San Diego, California, USA, Unknown Region
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Poster communications

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Shell models and the possibility of application to fusion plasmas
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Özgür D. Gürcan, Pascale Hennequin, X. Garbet, P.H. Diamond
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13th European Fusion Theory Conference, Oct 2009, Riga, Latvia. 2009
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On plasma rotation in tokamaks with toroidal magnetic field ripple and no external momentum input
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C. Fenzi, Elisée Trier, Pascale Hennequin, X. Garbet, C. Bourdelle, T. Aniel, F. Clairet, C. Gil, Özgür D. Gürcan, Frédéric Imbeaux, R. Sabot, Team Tore Supra
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36th European Physical Society Conference on Plasma Physics, Jun 2009, Sofia, Bulgaria. 2009
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