25 years of self-organized criticality: space and laboratory plasmas

AS Sharma, MJ Aschwanden, NB Crosby… - Space Science …, 2016 - Springer
Studies of complexity in extended dissipative dynamical systems, in nature and in
laboratory, require multiple approaches and the framework of self-organized criticality (SOC) …

Physics basis for the divertor tokamak test facility

F Crisanti, R Ambrosino, MV Falessi, L Gabellieri… - Nuclear …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper is dealing with the physics basis used for the design of the Divertor Tokamak Test
facility (DTT), under construction in Frascati (DTT 2019 DTT interim design report (2019)) …

Theory on excitations of drift Alfvén waves by energetic particles. II. The general fishbone-like dispersion relation

F Zonca, L Chen - Physics of Plasmas, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
The theoretical framework of the general fishbone-like dispersion relation (GFLDR),
presented and discussed in the Companion Paper [Phys. Plasmas 21, 072120 (2014)], is …

Nonlinear dynamics of the reversed shear Alfvén eigenmode in burning plasmas

W Tao, WEI Shizhao, S Briguglio… - Plasma Science and …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
In a tokamak fusion reactor operated at steady state, the equilibrium magnetic field is likely
to have reversed shear in the core region, as the noninductive bootstrap current profile …

Preparing the scientific basis for an all metal ITER

R Neu, EUPWI Taskforce… - Plasma Physics and …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
The use of beryllium, carbon and tungsten as plasma-facing materials (PFMs) in ITER calls
for dedicated investigations on their behaviour under the expected particle and power loads …

DTT: a divertor tokamak test facility for the study of the power exhaust issues in view of DEMO

R Albanese, WPDTT2 Team - Nuclear Fusion, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
In parallel with the programme to optimize the operation with a conventional divertor based
on detached conditions to be tested on the ITER device, a project has been launched to …

Analysis of the nonlinear behavior of shear-Alfvén modes in tokamaks based on Hamiltonian map** techniques

S Briguglio, X Wang, F Zonca, G Vlad, G Fogaccia… - Physics of …, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
We present a series of numerical simulation experiments set up to illustrate the fundamental
physics processes underlying the nonlinear dynamics of Alfvénic modes resonantly excited …

An extended hybrid magnetohydrodynamics gyrokinetic model for numerical simulation of shear Alfvén waves in burning plasmas

X Wang, S Briguglio, L Chen, C Di Troia… - Physics of …, 2011 - pubs.aip.org
Adopting the theoretical framework for the generalized fishbonelike dispersion relation, an
extended hybrid magnetohydrodynamics gyrokinetic simulation model has been derived …

First principle-based multi-channel integrated modelling in support of the design of the divertor tokamak test facility

I Casiraghi, P Mantica, F Koechl, R Ambrosino… - Nuclear …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
An intensive integrated modelling work of the main scenarios of the new Divertor Tokamak
Test (DTT) facility with a single null divertor configuration has been performed using first …

The DTT proposal. A tokamak facility to address exhaust challenges for DEMO: Introduction and executive summary

R Albanese, A Pizzuto, WPDTT2 Team - Fusion Engineering and Design, 2017 - Elsevier
As indicated in the European Fusion Roadmap, the main objective of the Divertor Tokamak
Test facility (DTT) is to explore alternative power exhaust solutions for DEMO so as to …