A brief history of negative triangularity tokamak plasmas

A Marinoni, O Sauter, S Coda - Reviews of Modern Plasma Physics, 2021 - Springer
This review is devoted to tokamak plasmas with a cross sectional shape featuring negative
triangularity, which appear to hold great promise as a candidate reactor configuration owing …

Overview of initial negative triangularity plasma studies on the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak

T Happel, T Pütterich, D Told, M Dunne… - Nuclear …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
An overview of results of negative triangularity (NT) studies from the ASDEX Upgrade
tokamak (AUG) is given. Moderate values of the triangularity in the range of δ average≈ …

Enhanced confinement in diverted negative-triangularity L-mode plasmas in TCV

S Coda, A Merle, O Sauter, L Porte… - Plasma Physics and …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The favorable confinement properties of negative-triangularity (NT) tokamak configurations
were discovered in the TCV tokamak in the late 1990s and were documented over the two …

Nonlocal effects in negative triangularity TCV plasmas

G Merlo, Z Huang, C Marini, S Brunner… - Plasma Physics and …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Global gradient driven gyrokinetic simulations performed with the Gyrokinetic
Electromagnetic Numerical Experiment (GENE) code are used to investigate Tokamak à …

On the effect of negative triangularity on ion temperature gradient turbulence in tokamaks

G Merlo, M Dicorato, B Allen, T Dannert… - Physics of …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
Considering the same magnetic equilibrium and plasma conditions as in Duff et al.[Phys.
Plasmas 29, 012303 (2022)], we perform linear and nonlinear simulations of electrostatic ion …

Effect of triangularity on plasma turbulence and the SOL-width scaling in L-mode diverted tokamak configurations

K Lim, M Giacomin, P Ricci, A Coelho… - Plasma Physics and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The effect of triangularity on tokamak boundary plasma turbulence is investigated using
global, flux-driven, three-dimensional, two-fluid simulations. The simulations show that …

First-principle based predictions of the effects of negative triangularity on DTT scenarios

A Mariani, A Balestri, P Mantica, G Merlo… - Nuclear …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Plasmas with negative triangularity (NT) shape have been recently shown to be able to
achieve H-mode levels of confinement in L-mode, avoiding detrimental edge localised …

Available energy of trapped electrons in Miller tokamak equilibria

RJJ Mackenbach, JHE Proll, G Snoep… - Journal of Plasma …, 2023 - cambridge.org
Available energy (Æ), which quantifies the maximum amount of thermal energy that may be
liberated and converted into instabilities and turbulence, has shown to be a useful metric for …

Toward exascale whole-device modeling of fusion devices: Porting the GENE gyrokinetic microturbulence code to GPU

K Germaschewski, B Allen, T Dannert, M Hrywniak… - Physics of …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
ABSTRACT GENE solves the five-dimensional gyrokinetic equations to simulate the
development and evolution of plasma microturbulence in magnetic fusion devices. The …

Interplay between magnetic shear and triangularity in ion temperature gradient and trapped electron mode dominated plasmas

G Merlo, F Jenko - Journal of Plasma Physics, 2023 - cambridge.org
Interplay between magnetic shear and triangularity in ion temperature gradient and trapped
electron mode dominated plasmas Page 1 J. Plasma Phys. (2023), vol. 89, 905890104 © …