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  • Analysis of the potential of ICRF waves to heat bulk ions in DEMO 

    Gallart, Daniel; Mantsinen, Mervi; Kazakov, Yevgen (European Physical Society (EPS), 2015)
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    While ITER’s main purpose is to confirm the feasibility of nuclear fusion as an energy source, DEMO is planned as the first fusion reactor to produce net electrical energy. Our analysis is carried out for the DEMO 2015 ...

  • A new ion cyclotron range of frequency scenario for bulk ion heating in deuterium-tritium plasmas: How to utilize intrinsic impurities in our favour 

    Kazakov, Ye O.; Ongena, Jozef; Van Eester, Dirk; Bilato, Roberto; Dumont, Rémi J.; Lerche, Ernesto A.; Mantsinen, Mervi; Messiaen, André M. (American Institute of Physics Publising LLC, 2015-08-24)
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    A fusion reactor requires plasma pre-heating before the rate of deuterium-tritium fusion reactions becomes significant. In ITER, radiofrequency (RF) heating of He ions, additionally puffed into the plasma, is one of the ...

  • Bulk ion heating with ICRF waves in tokamaks 

    Mantsinen, Mervi; Bilato, Roberto; Bobkov, Volodymyr; Kappatou, Athina; McDermott, Rachel; Nocente, Massimo; Odstrcil, Tomas; Tardini, Giovanni; Bernert, Matthias; Dux, Ralph; Hellsten, Torbjörn; Mantica, Paola; Maraschek, Marc; Nielsen, Stefan K.; Noterdaeme, Jean-Marie; Rasmussen, Jens; Ryter, François; Stejner, Morten; Stober, Jörg; Tardocchi, Marco; The ASDEX Upgrade Team and the EUROfusion MST1 Team (AIP, 2015-12-12)
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    Heating with ICRF waves is a well-established method on present-day tokamaks and one of the heating systems foreseen for ITER. However, further work is still needed to test and optimize its performance in fusion devices ...

  • Challenges in the extrapolation from DD to DT plasmas: experimental analysis and theory based predictions for JET-DT 

    Garcia, J.; Challis, C.; Gallart, D.; Garzotti, L.; Görler, T.; King, D.; Mantsinen, Mervi; Jet Contributors (IOP Publishing, 2016-10-27)
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    A strong modelling program has been started in support of the future JET-DT campaign with the aim of guiding experiments in deuterium (D) towards maximizing fusion energy production in Deuterium–Tritium (DT). Some of the ...

  • Dual sightline measurements of MeV range deuterons with neutron and gamma-ray spectroscopy at JET 

    Eriksson, Johan; Scopus - Author details - Nocente, Massimo; Binda, Federico; Scopus - Author details - Cazzaniga, Carlo; Conroy, Sean W.; Ericsson, Göran N.; Giacomelli, Luca C.; Gorini, Giuseppe; Hellesen, Carl; Hellsten, Törbjrn; Hjalmarsson, Anders; Jacobsen, Arnhild S.; Johnson, Thomas; Kiptily, Vasily; Koskela, Tuomas; Mantsinen, Mervi; Salewski, Mirko; Schneider, Michael; Sharapov, Sergei; Skiba, Mateusz; Tardocchi, Marco; Weiszflog, Matthias (Institute of Physics Publishing (IOP), 2015-11-19)
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    Observations made in a JET experiment aimed at accelerating deuterons to the MeV range by third harmonic radio-frequency (RF) heating coupled into a deuterium beam are reported. Measurements are based on a set of advanced ...

  • First experience with particle-in-cell plasma physics code on ARM-based HPC systems 

    Sáez, Xavier; Soba, Alejandro; Sánchez, Edilberto; Mantsinen, Mervi; Mateo, Sergio; Cela, José M.; Castejón, Francisco (IOP Publishing, 2015-09-28)
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    In this work, we will explore the feasibility of porting a Particle-in-cell code (EUTERPE) to an ARM multi-core platform from the Mont-Blanc project. The used prototype is based on a system-on-chip Samsung Exynos 5 with ...

  • Fusion product losses due to fishbone instabilities in deuterium JET plasmas 

    Kiptily, V.G.; Fitzgerald, M.; Goloborodko, V.; Sharapov, S.E.; Challis, C.D.; Frigione, D.; Graves, J.; Mantsinen, Mervi; Beaumont, P.; Garcia-Munoz, M.; Perez von Thun, C.; Rodriguez, J.F.R.; Darrow, D.; Keeling, D.; King, D.; McClements, K.G.; Solano, E.R.; Schmuck, S.; Sips, G.; Szepesi, G.; JET Contributors (IOP Publishing, 2018)
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    During development of a high-performance hybrid scenario for future deuterium–tritium experiments on the Joint European Torus, an increased level of fast ion losses in the MeV energy range was observed during the instability ...

  • Heating bulk ions in DEMO with ICRF waves 

    Gallart, Dani; Mantsinen, Mervi; Kazakov, Yevgen (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, 2015-05-05)
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    Ion cyclotron resonance frequency heating (ICRF) is one of the auxiliary heating schemes presently envisaged for ITER and DEMO. In this paper we analyse the potential of ICRF waves to heat the fuel ions in DEMO. Our ...

  • ICRH analysis of high-performance JET hybrid discharges using PION modelling and neutron spectrometry measurements 

    Mantsinen, Mervi; Eriksson, Jacob; Challis, Clive; Frigione, Domenico; García, Jerónimo; Giroud, Carine; Hjalmarsson, Ake; Damian, King (European Physical Society (EPS), 2015)
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    The hybrid scenario is an operational tokamak plasma regime designed to achieve long pulse operat ion with a combination of inductive and non-inductive current drive. It has been suggested for ...

  • ICRH physics and technology achievements in JET-ILW 

    Jacquet, P.; van Eester, D.; Lerche, E.; Bobkov, V.; Blackman, T.; Colas, L.; Challis, C.; Czarnecka, A.; Dumortier, P.; Frigione, D.; Durodié, F.; Garzotti, L.; Goniche, M.; Graves, J.; Kazakov, Y.; Kirov, K.; Klepper, C.C.; Krawczyk, N.; Krivska, A.; Mantsinen, Mervi; Monakhov, I.; Nunes, I.; Ongena, J.; Reinke, M.; Rimini, F.; Zhang, W.; JET Contributors (EDP Sciences, 2017-10-23)
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    ICRH was extensively used in the 2015-16 JET-ILW (ITER like wall) experimental campaign; bulk heating together with high-Z impurity chase-out from plasma centre importantly contributed to the good DD fusion performance ...

  • Modelling of combined ICRF and NBI heating in JET hybrid plasmas 

    Gallart, Dani; Mantsinen, Mervi; Challis, Clive; Frigione, Domenico; Graves, Jonathan; Hobirk, Joerg; Belonohy, Eva; Czarnecka, Agata; Eriksson, Jacob; Goniche, Marc; Hellesen, Carl; Jacquet, Philippe; Joffrin, Emmanuel; Krawczyk, Natalia; King, Damian; Lennholm, Morten; Lerche, Ernesto; Pawelec, Ewa; Sips, George; Solano, Emilia; Tsalas, Maximos; Valisa, Marco; JET Contributors (EDP Sciences, 2017-10-23)
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    During the 2015-2016 JET campaigns many efforts have been devoted to the exploration of high performance plasma scenarios envisaged for ITER operation. In this paper we model the combined ICRF+NBI heating in selected key ...

  • Modelling of ICRF heating in DEMO with special emphasis on bulk ion heating 

    Gallart, Daniel; Mantsinen, Mervi; Kazakov, Yevgen (AIP, 2015-12-10)
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    Ion cyclotron resonance frequency (ICRF) heating is one of the auxiliary heating schemes presently envisaged for ITER and DEMO. In this paper we analyse the potential of ICRF waves to heat the fuel ions in DEMO. Our analysis ...

  • Non-linear MHD Simulation s of Pellet Triggered ELMs in JET and ASDEX Upgrade tokamaks 

    Futatani, Shimpei; Pamela, S.; Huijsmans, G.T.A.; Garzotti, L.; Frigione, D.; Loarte, D.; Hoelzl, M.; Lang, P.T.; Kocsis, G.; Orain, F.; Dunne, M.; Lessig, A.; Mantsinen, Mervi; EUROfusion MST1 Team; ASDEX Upgrade Team; JET Contributors (2016-07-08)
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    ITER operation in its high fusion performance DT scenarios relies on the achievement of the H-mode confinement regime, which is expected to lead to the quasi-periodic triggering of ELMs (Edge Localized Modes). ...

  • Overview of ASDEX Upgrade results 

    ASDEX Upgrade Team; EUROfusion MST1 Team; Mantsinen, Mervi (International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), 2017-06-28)
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    The ASDEX Upgrade (AUG) programme is directed towards physics input to critical elements of the ITER design and the preparation of ITER operation, as well as addressing physics issues for a future DEMO design. Since 2015, ...

  • Plasma physics code contribution to the Mont-Blanc project 

    Sáez, Xavier; Soba, Alejandro; Mantsinen, Mervi (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, 2015-05-05)
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    This work develops strategies for adapting a particle-in-cell code to heterogeneous computer architectures and, in particular, to an ARM-based prototype of the Mont-Blanc project using OmpSs programming model and the ...

  • Simulations of combined ICRF and NBI heating for high fusion performance in JET 

    Gallart, Daniel; Mantsinen, Mervi; Garzotti, Luca; Bilato, Roberto; Challis, Clive; Garcia, Jerónimo; Gutierrez-Milla, Albert; Johnson, Thomas; Lerche, Ernesto; Sáez, Xavier; van Eester, Dirk (2016-07-08)
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    We report on simulations aimed at optimizing external heating using neutral beam injection (NBI) and radiofrequency waves in the ion cyclotron range of frequencies (ICRF) for high fusion yield in the JET tokamak. In this ...

  • Stabilization of sawteeth with 3rd harmonic deuterium ICRF-accelerated beam in JET plasmas 

    Girardo, Jean-Baptiste; Sharapov, Sergei; Dumont, Rémi; Eriksson, Jacob; Fitzgerald, Michael; Garbet, Xavier; Hawkes, Nick; Kiptily, Vasily; Mantsinen, Mervi; Sarazin, Yanick; Schneider, Mireille (AIP, 2016-01)
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    Sawtooth stabilisation by fast ions is investigated in deuterium (D) and D-helium 3 (He3) plasmas of JET heated by deuterium Neutral Beam Injection combined in synergy with Ion Cyclotron Resonance Heating (ICRH) applied ...

  • The effects of electron cyclotron heating and current drive on toroidal Alfvén eigenmodes in tokamak plasmas 

    Sharapov, S.E.; Garcia-Muñoz, M.; van Zeeland, M.A.; Bobkov, B.; Classen, I.G.J.; Ferreira, J.; Figueiredo, A.; Fitzgerald, M.; Galdon-Quiroga, J.; Gallart, D.; Geiger, B.; Gonzalez-Martin, J.; Johnson, T.; Lauber, P.; Mantsinen, Mervi; Nabais, F.; Nikolaeva, V.; Rodriguez-Ramos, M.; Sanchis-Sanchez, L.; Schneider, P.A.; Snicker, A.; Vallejos, P.; AUG Team; EUROfusion MST1 Team (IOP Publishing, 2017-11-02)
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    Dedicated studies performed for toroidal Alfvén eigenmodes (TAEs) in ASDEX-Upgrade (AUG) discharges with monotonic q-profiles have shown that electron cyclotron resonance heating (ECRH) can make TAEs more unstable. In these ...

  • The Role of Combined ICRF and NBI Heating in JET Hybrid Plasmas in Quest for High D-T Fusion Yield 

    Mantsinen, Mervi; Challis, Clive; Frigione, Domenico; Graves, Jonathan; Hobirk, Joerg; Belonohy, Eva; Czarnecka, Agata; Eriksson, Jacob; Gallart, Dani; Goniche, Marc; Hellesen, Carl; Jacquet, Philippe; Joffrin, Emmanuel; King, Damian; Krawczyk, Natalia; Lennholm, Morten; Lerche, Ernesto; Pawelec, Ewa; Sips, George; Solano, Emilia R.; Tsalas, Maximos; Valisa, Marco; JET Contributors (EDP Sciences, 2017-10-23)
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    Combined ICRF and NBI heating played a key role in achieving the world-record fusion yield in the first deuterium-tritium campaign at the JET tokamak in 1997. The current plans for JET include new experiments with ...

  • Third harmonic ICRF heating of Deuterium beam ions on ASDEX Upgrade 

    Mantsinen, Mervi; Bobkov, Volodymyr; Gallart, Daniel; Geiger, Ben; Johnson, Thomas; Meyer, Hendrik; Nocente, Massimo; Ochoukov, Roman; Odstrčil, Tomas; Perelli, Enrico; Rasmussen, Jens; Schneider, P. A.; Sharapov, Sergei; Tardini, Giovanni; Tardocchi, Marco; Vallejós, Pablo; ASDEX Upgrade; EUROfusion MST1 (European Physical Society (EPS), 2016-07-08)
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    We report on recent experiments on the ASDEX Upgrade (AUG) tokamak (major radius R ≈1.65 m, minor radius a ≈ 0.5 m) with third harmonic ICRF heating of deuterium beam ions. Prior to this work, the ...