Modelling performed for predictions of fusion power in JET DTE2: overview and lessons learnt

J Garcia, FJ Casson, L Frassinetti, D Gallart… - Nuclear …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
For more than a decade, an unprecedented predict-first activity has been carried in order to
predict the fusion power and provide guidance to the second Deuterium–Tritium (D–T) …

Fast-ion stabilization of tokamak plasma turbulence

A Di Siena, T Görler, H Doerk, E Poli, R Bilato - Nuclear Fusion, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
A significant reduction of the turbulence-induced anomalous heat transport has been
observed in recent studies of magnetically confined plasmas in the presence of a significant …

Integrated modeling of CFETR hybrid scenario plasmas

J Chen, VS Chan, X Jian, X Zhang, Q Ren, G Li… - Nuclear …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Demonstration of DEMO relevant fusion power (Pfus) level and tritium self-sufficiency are
two important goals of the China fusion engineering testing reactor (CFETR). In this work the …

The effect of density fluctuations on electron cyclotron beam broadening and implications for ITER

A Snicker, E Poli, O Maj, L Guidi, A Köhn… - Nuclear …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We present state-of-the-art computations of propagation and absorption of electron cyclotron
waves, retaining the effects of scattering due to electron density fluctuations. In ITER …

[HTML][HTML] Novel aspects of plasma control in ITER

D Humphreys, G Ambrosino, P de Vries, F Felici… - Physics of …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
ITER plasma control design solutions and performance requirements are strongly driven by
its nuclear mission, aggressive commissioning constraints, and limited number of …

On recent results in the modelling of neoclassical-tearing-mode stabilization via electron cyclotron current drive and their impact on the design of the upper EC …

E Poli, C Angioni, FJ Casson, D Farina, L Figini… - Nuclear …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Electron cyclotron wave beams injected from a launcher placed in the upper part of the
vessel will be used in ITER to control MHD instabilities, in particular neoclassical tearing …

Characterizing turbulent transport in ASDEX Upgrade L-mode plasmas via nonlinear gyrokinetic simulations

D Told, F Jenko, T Görler, FJ Casson, E Fable… - Physics of …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
The nature and level of turbulent transport in the outer core of low-confinement (L-mode)
discharges performed at the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak [Kallenbach et al., Nucl. Fusion 51 …

Quasi-static free-boundary equilibrium of toroidal plasma with CEDRES++: Computational methods and applications

H Heumann, J Blum, C Boulbe, B Faugeras… - Journal of Plasma …, 2015 - cambridge.org
We present a comprehensive survey of various computational methods in CEDRES++
(Couplage Equilibre Diffusion Résistive pour l'Etude des Scénarios) for finding equilibria of …

Effects of magnetic perturbations and radiation on the runaway avalanche

P Svensson, O Embreus, SL Newton… - Journal of Plasma …, 2021 - cambridge.org
The electron runaway phenomenon in plasmas depends sensitively on the momentum-
space dynamics. However, efficient simulation of the global evolution of systems involving …

Numerical simulation of tokamak plasma equilibrium evolution

G Gros, B Faugeras, C Boulbe, JF Artaud… - Journal of …, 2025 - Elsevier
This paper focuses on the numerical methods recently developed in order to simulate the
time evolution of a tokamak plasma equilibrium at the resistive diffusion time scale. Starting …