Computational challenges in magnetic-confinement fusion physics

A Fasoli, S Brunner, WA Cooper, JP Graves, P Ricci… - Nature Physics, 2016 - nature.com
Magnetic-fusion plasmas are complex self-organized systems with an extremely wide range
of spatial and temporal scales, from the electron-orbit scales (∼ 10− 11 s,∼ 10− 5 m) to the …

WEST physics basis

C Bourdelle, JF Artaud, V Basiuk, M Bécoulet… - Nuclear …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract With WEST (Tungsten Environment in Steady State Tokamak)(Bucalossi et al 2014
Fusion Eng. Des. 89 907–12), the Tore Supra facility and team expertise (Dumont et al 2014 …

Experiments in high-performance JET plasmas in preparation of second harmonic ICRF heating of tritium in ITER

MJ Mantsinen, P Jacquet, E Lerche, D Gallart… - Nuclear …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The reference ion cyclotron resonance frequency (ICRF) heating schemes for ITER
deuterium–tritium (DT) plasmas at the full magnetic field of 5.3 T are second harmonic …

Review on recent progress in ion cyclotron range of frequency systems, experiments and modelling for magnetic confinement fusion

J Hillairet - Reviews of Modern Plasma Physics, 2023 - Springer
This paper is a broad overview and a summary of the recent progress achieved in Ion
Cyclotron Range of Frequency (ICRF) systems, experiments and modelling during the last …

Scenario development for the observation of alpha-driven instabilities in JET DT plasmas

RJ Dumont, J Mailloux, V Aslanyan, M Baruzzo… - Nuclear …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
In DT plasmas, toroidal Alfvén eigenmodes (TAEs) can be made unstable by the alpha
particles resulting from fusion reactions, and may induce a significant redistribution of fast …

Ion cyclotron resonance heating for tungsten control in various JET H-mode scenarios

M Goniche, RJ Dumont, V Bobkov… - Plasma Physics and …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Ion cyclotron resonance heating (ICRH) in the hydrogen minority scheme provides central
ion heating and acts favorably on the core tungsten transport. Full wave modeling shows …

ICRH operations and experiments during the JET-ILW tritium and DTE2 campaigns

P Jacquet, E Lerche, M Mantsinen… - AIP Conference …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
2021 has culminated with the completion of the JET-ILW DTE2 experimental campaign. This
contribution summarizes Ion Cyclotron Resonance Heating (ICRH) operations from system …

WEST full tungsten operation with an ITER grade divertor

J Bucalossi, A Ekedahl, J Achard, K Afonin… - Nuclear …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
The mission of WEST (tungsten-W Environment in Steady-state Tokamak) is to explore long
pulse operation in a full tungsten (W) environment for preparing next-step fusion devices …

Tungsten accumulation during ion cyclotron resonance heating operation on WEST

P Maget, P Manas, R Dumont, C Angioni… - Plasma Physics and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
The observation of radiative collapses during ion cyclotron resonance heating (ICRH)
operation on the full tungsten WEST tokamak constitutes a unique opportunity to get a …

Modelling third harmonic ion cyclotron acceleration of deuterium beams for JET fusion product studies experiments

M Schneider, T Johnson, R Dumont, J Eriksson… - Nuclear …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent JET experiments have been dedicated to the studies of fusion reactions between
deuterium (D) and Helium-3 (3 He) ions using neutral beam injection (NBI) in synergy with …