Antoine Merle

antoine.merle@epfl.ch +41 21 693 65 59

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PPB 124 (Bâtiment PPB)
Station 13
1015 Lausanne

+41 21 693 65 59
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Teaching & PhD

PhD Students

Guillaume Raphäel Hervé Van Parys, Cosmas Quirin Lorenz Heiss

Courses

Control and Operation of Tokamaks

PHYS-748

This course treats the main issues in operation and control of a tokamak. Control-oriented models are derived and controllers are designed using techniques from modern control theory. Operational limits are discussed as well as state-of-the-art research questions for future reactors.

Magnetic confinement

PHYS-731

To provide an overview of the fundamentals of magnetic confinement (MC) of plasmas for fusion.The different MC configurations are presented, with a description of their operating regimes.The basic elements of particle & energy transport, of plasma-wall interaction & of burning plasma are introduced.