The European DEMO is a pulsed device with pulse length of 2 hours. The functions devoted
to the heating and current drive system are: plasma breakdown, plasma ramp-up to the flat …

The research program of the TCV tokamak ranges from conventional to advanced-tokamak
scenarios and alternative divertor configurations, to exploratory plasmas driven by …

Real-time plasma control systems are at the heart of operation of modern tokamaks. The
control system of the TCV tokamak has recently seen a major upgrade in terms of its …

The properties of L-mode confinement have been investigated with a set of dedicated
experiments in ASDEX Upgrade and with a related modelling activity with the transport code …

This work opens a series of papers where we develop a general quasi-optical theory for
mode-converting electromagnetic beams in plasma and implement it in a numerical …

This work combines experimental observations from the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak with
related gyrokinetic simulations of the turbulence moving from L-mode toward, and beyond …

The injection of electron cyclotron (EC) waves fulfills a number of important tasks in nuclear
fusion devices for which detailed knowledge of the spatial power deposition profile is critical …

Predicting the impact of heating and current drive (H&CD) sources is essential to evaluate
the performance of ITER plasmas and to subsequently optimise the scenarios for the four …

A newly developed tool to simulate a tokamak full discharge is presented. The tokamak'flight
simulator'Fenix couples the tokamak control system with a fast and reduced plasma model …

Kinetic equilibrium reconstruction (KER) in tokamaks is the solution of the free-boundary
MHD equilibrium that best fits the external magnetic measurements and the internal plasma …