Olivier Sauter
EPFL SB SPC-TH
PPB 116 (Bâtiment PPB)
Station 13
1015 Lausanne
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Publications
Infoscience publications
Publications, AU=Sauter O.
2025
Journal Articles
* Milestone in predicting core plasma turbulence: successful multi-channel validation of the gyrokinetic code GENE
Nature communications. 2025. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-025-56997-2.* Nonlinear excitation of energetic particle driven geodesic acoustic mode by resonance overlap with Alfvén instability in ASDEX Upgrade
Scientific reports. 2025. DOI : 10.1038/s41598-024-82577-3.* Fusion alpha power control optimisation using RAPTOR
Fusion Engineering and Design. 2025. DOI : 10.1016/j.fusengdes.2025.115202.* Real-time density profile simulations on ASDEX Upgrade and the impact of the edge boundary condition
Fusion Engineering and Design. 2025. DOI : 10.1016/j.fusengdes.2025.115196.* Operation Above the Greenwald Density Limit in High Performance DIII-d Negative Triangularity Discharges
PLASMA PHYSICS AND CONTROLLED FUSION. 2025. DOI : 10.1088/1361-6587/ade185.* Development of High-current Baseline Scenario for High Deuterium-tritium Fusion Performance at Jet
PLASMA PHYSICS AND CONTROLLED FUSION. 2025. DOI : 10.1088/1361-6587/ade008.* Impact of the Plasma Boundary on Machine Operation and the Risk Mitigation Strategy on Jet
NUCLEAR FUSION. 2025. DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/addad7.* Lessons Learned Executing the Non-disruptive Compass Scan Method at Jet Towards Error Field Identification Experiments in Iter
PLASMA PHYSICS AND CONTROLLED FUSION. 2025. DOI : 10.1088/1361-6587/add6d6.* H-Mode density limit disruption avoidance in ASDEX Upgrade, TCV and JET
FUSION ENGINEERING AND DESIGN. 2025. DOI : 10.1016/j.fusengdes.2025.114961.* Model-based estimation of tokamak plasma profiles and physics parameters: algorithm overview and application to ITER
Nuclear Fusion. 2025. DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/add16e.* P<inf>sep</inf>/P<inf>LH</inf> control in deuterium and deuterium-tritium JET plasmas
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 2025. DOI : 10.1088/1361-6587/adc8d0.* Electromagnetic instability and turbulence in plasmas with positive and negative triangularity
Physics of Plasmas. 2025. DOI : 10.1063/5.0255557.* Overview of the third JET deuterium-tritium campaign
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 2025. DOI : 10.1088/1361-6587/adbd75.* The quasi-continuous exhaust regime in ASDEX Upgrade and JET
Nuclear Materials and Energy. 2025. DOI : 10.1016/j.nme.2025.101904.* Full radius integrated modelling of ohmic ramp-up at TCV including self consistent density prediction
NUCLEAR FUSION. 2025. DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/adb169.* The quasi-continuous exhaust regime in JET
NUCLEAR FUSION. 2025. DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/adaa86.* Effect of energetic ions on edge-localized modes in tokamak plasmas
Nature Physics. 2025. DOI : 10.1038/s41567-024-02715-6.Working Papers
* Operation above the Greenwald density limit in high performance DIII-D negative triangularity discharges
20252024
Journal Articles
* Observation of magnetic islands in tokamak plasmas during the suppression of edge-localized modes
Nature Physics. 2024. DOI : 10.1038/s41567-024-02666-y.* A control oriented strategy of disruption prediction to avoid the configuration collapse of tokamak reactors
Nature communications. 2024. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-024-46242-7.* Overview of ASDEX upgrade results in view of ITER and DEMO
Nuclear Fusion. 2024. DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/ad249d.* Overview of T and D-T results in JET with ITER-like wall
NUCLEAR FUSION. 2024. DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/ad3e16.* Experimental research on the TCV tokamak
Nuclear Fusion. 2024. DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/ad8361.* WEST full tungsten operation with an ITER grade divertor
Nuclear Fusion. 2024. DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/ad64e5.* Overview of physics results from MAST upgrade towards core-pedestal-exhaust integration
Nuclear Fusion. 2024. DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/ad6011.* Measurement of small island characteristics using high resolution ECE and CER at DIII-D
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 2024. DOI : 10.1088/1361-6587/ad75b8.* Negative triangularity scenarios: from TCV and AUG experiments to DTT predictions
Nuclear Fusion. 2024. DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/ad6ea0.* Dynamics of JET runaway electron beams in D<inf>2</inf>-rich shattered pellet injection mitigation experiments
Nuclear Fusion. 2024. DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/ad6e03.* High performance power handling in the absence of an H-mode edge in negative triangularity DIII-D plasmas
Nuclear Fusion. 2024. DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/ad5f41.* Simultaneous access to high normalized density, current, pressure, and confinement in strongly-shaped diverted negative triangularity plasmas
Nuclear Fusion. 2024. DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/ad69a4.* DIII-D research to provide solutions for ITER and fusion energy
NUCLEAR FUSION. 2024. DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/ad2fe9.Reviews
* Overview of the EUROfusion Tokamak Exploitation programme in support of ITER and DEMO
Nuclear Fusion. 2024. DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/ad2be4.2023
Journal Articles
* How accurate are flux-tube (local) gyrokinetic codes in modeling energetic particle effects on core turbulence?
Nuclear Fusion. 2023. DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/acf1b0.* Locked mode detection during error field identification studies
Fusion Engineering And Design. 2023. DOI : 10.1016/j.fusengdes.2023.113957.* Shafranov shift correction to the Furth-Yoshikawa scaling of tokamak adiabatic compression
Plasma Physics And Controlled Fusion. 2023. DOI : 10.1088/1361-6587/acc5ae.* Global 'zero particle flux-driven' gyrokinetic analysis of the density profile for a TCV plasma
Plasma Physics And Controlled Fusion. 2023. DOI : 10.1088/1361-6587/acc96d.* Model-based electron density estimation using multiple diagnostics on TCV
Fusion Engineering And Design. 2023. DOI : 10.1016/j.fusengdes.2023.113615.2022
Journal Articles
* Prospects of core–edge integrated no-ELM and small-ELM scenarios for future fusion devices
Nuclear Materials and Energy. 2022. DOI : 10.1016/j.nme.2022.101308.* Full conversion from ohmic to runaway electron driven current via massive gas injection in the TCV tokamak
Nuclear Fusion. 2022. DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/ac544e.* Impact of the plasma operation on the technical requirements in EU-DEMO
Fusion Engineering And Design. 2022. DOI : 10.1016/j.fusengdes.2022.113123.* First-Principles Density Limit Scaling in Tokamaks Based on Edge Turbulent Transport and Implications for ITER
Physical Review Letters. 2022. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.185003.* DIII-D research advancing the physics basis for optimizing the tokamak approach to fusion energy
Nuclear Fusion. 2022. DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/ac2ff2.* Overview of the TCV tokamak experimental programme
Nuclear Fusion. 2022. DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/ac369b.* Healing plasma current ramp-up by nitrogen seeding in the full tungsten environment of WEST
Plasma Physics And Controlled Fusion. 2022. DOI : 10.1088/1361-6587/ac4b93.* Progress from ASDEX Upgrade experiments in preparing the physics basis of ITER operation and DEMO scenario development
Nuclear Fusion. 2022. DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/ac207f.* Physics-based control of neoclassical tearing modes on TCV
Plasma Physics And Controlled Fusion. 2022. DOI : 10.1088/1361-6587/ac48be.* Overview of JET results for optimising ITER operation
Nuclear Fusion. 2022. DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/ac47b4.* Enhanced confinement in diverted negative-triangularity L-mode plasmas in TCV
Plasma Physics And Controlled Fusion. 2022. DOI : 10.1088/1361-6587/ac3fec.2021
Journal Articles
* Experimental investigation and gyrokinetic simulations of multi-scale electron heat transport in JET, AUG, TCV
Nuclear Fusion. 2021. DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/ac1fa9.* Developments on actuator management, plasma state reconstruction, and control on ASDEX Upgrade
Fusion Engineering And Design. 2021. DOI : 10.1016/j.fusengdes.2021.112563.* Rapid optimization of stationary tokamak plasmas in RAPTOR: demonstration for the ITER hybrid scenario with neural network surrogate transport model QLKNN
Nuclear Fusion. 2021. DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/ac0d12.* Nonlocal effects in negative triangularity TCV plasmas
Plasma Physics And Controlled Fusion. 2021. DOI : 10.1088/1361-6587/abe39d.* A new set of analytical formulae for the computation of the bootstrap current and the neoclassical conductivity in tokamaks
Physics Of Plasmas. 2021. DOI : 10.1063/5.0012664.2020
Journal Articles
* Code Integration, Data Verification, and Models Validation Using the ITER Integrated Modeling and Analysis System (IMAS) in EUROfusion
Fusion Science And Technology. 2020. DOI : 10.1080/15361055.2020.1819751.* The impact of anisotropy on ITER scenarios
Nuclear Fusion. 2020. DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/ab8ef6.* Progress Toward Interpretable Machine Learning-Based Disruption Predictors Across Tokamaks
Fusion Science And Technology. 2020. DOI : 10.1080/15361055.2020.1798589.* DEMO physics challenges beyond ITER
Fusion Engineering And Design. 2020. DOI : 10.1016/j.fusengdes.2020.111603.* First demonstration of real-time kinetic equilibrium reconstruction on TCV by coupling LIUQE and RAPTOR
Nuclear Fusion. 2020. DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/ab81ac.Conference Papers
* Modeling ICRH and ICRH-NBI Synergy in High Power JET Scenarios Using European Transport Simulator (ETS)
2020. 23rd Topical Conference on Radiofrequency Power in Plasmas, Hefei, PEOPLES R CHINA, May 14-17, 2019. DOI : 10.1063/5.0014240.2019
Journal Articles
* Investigation of the role of electron temperature gradient modes in electron heat transport in TCV plasmas
Nuclear Fusion. 2019. DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/ab3de4.* A power-balance model of the density limit in fusion plasmas: application to the L-mode tokamak
Nuclear Fusion. 2019. DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/ab3b31.* Interpretative and predictive modelling of Joint European Torus collisionality scans
Plasma Physics And Controlled Fusion. 2019. DOI : 10.1088/1361-6587/ab2f45.* Overview of the JET preparation for deuterium-tritium operation with the ITER like-wall
Nuclear Fusion. 2019. DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/ab2276.* Overview of physics studies on ASDEX Upgrade
Nuclear Fusion. 2019. DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/ab18b8.* Progress in disruption prevention for ITER
Nuclear Fusion. 2019. DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/ab15de.* A wall-aligned grid generator for non-linear simulations of MHD instabilities in tokamak plasmas
Computer Physics Communications. 2019. DOI : 10.1016/j.cpc.2019.05.007.* A new mechanism for increasing density peaking in tokamaks: improvement of the inward particle pinch with edge E x B shearing
Plasma Physics And Controlled Fusion. 2019. DOI : 10.1088/1361-6587/ab31a4.* Modification of the Alfven wave spectrum by pellet injection
Nuclear Fusion. 2019. DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/ab382b.* Tokamak-agnostic actuator management for multi-task integrated control with application to TCV and ITER
Fusion Engineering And Design. 2019. DOI : 10.1016/j.fusengdes.2019.111260.* Novel method for determination of tritium depth profiles in metallic samples
Nuclear Fusion. 2019. DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/ab3056.* Ion cyclotron resonance heating scenarios for DEMO
Nuclear Fusion. 2019. DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/ab318b.* Control of the hydrogen:deuterium isotope mixture using pellets in JET
Nuclear Fusion. 2019. DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/ab3812.* Nearing final design of the ITER EC H&CD Upper Launcher
Fusion Engineering And Design. 2019. DOI : 10.1016/j.fusengdes.2018.11.013.* Gyrokinetic analysis and simulation of pedestals to identify the culprits for energy losses using 'fingerprints'
Nuclear Fusion. 2019. DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/ab1fa2.* Extension of the operating space of high-beta(N) fully non-inductive scenarios on TCV using neutral beam injection
Nuclear Fusion. 2019. DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/ab2bb6.* Deep neural networks for plasma tomography with applications to JET and COMPASS
Journal Of Instrumentation. 2019. DOI : 10.1088/1748-0221/14/09/C09011.* Erosion, screening, and migration of tungsten in the JET divertor
Nuclear Fusion. 2019. DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/ab2aef.* Role of fast ion pressure in the isotope effect in JET L-mode plasmas
Nuclear Fusion. 2019. DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/ab2d4f.* Simulation of neutron emission in neutral beam injection heated plasmas with the real-time code RABBIT
Nuclear Fusion. 2019. DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/ab1edd.* First principles and integrated modelling achievements towards trustful fusion power predictions for JET and ITER
Nuclear Fusion. 2019. DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/ab25b1.* Energetic ion losses 'channeling' mechanism and strategy for mitigation
Plasma Physics And Controlled Fusion. 2019. DOI : 10.1088/1361-6587/ab27fd.* Current Research into Applications of Tomography for Fusion Diagnostics
Journal of Fusion Energy. 2019. DOI : 10.1007/s10894-018-0178-x.* Adaptive learning for disruption prediction in non-stationary conditions
Nuclear Fusion. 2019. DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/ab1ecc.* Direct gyrokinetic comparison of pedestal transport in JET with carbon and ITER-like walls
Nuclear Fusion. 2019. DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/ab25bd.* Beryllium melting and erosion on the upper dump plates in JET during three ITER-like wall campaigns
Nuclear Fusion. 2019. DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/ab2076.* Micro ion beam analysis for the erosion of beryllium marker tiles in a tokamak limiter
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section B: Beam Interactions with Materials and Atoms. 2019. DOI : 10.1016/j.nimb.2018.08.028.* Geodesic acoustic mode evolution in L-mode approaching the L-H transition on JET
Plasma Physics And Controlled Fusion. 2019. DOI : 10.1088/1361-6587/ab1e73.* EDGE2D-EIRENE simulations of the influence of isotope effects and anomalous transport coefficients on near scrape-off layer radial electric field
Plasma Physics And Controlled Fusion. 2019. DOI : 10.1088/1361-6587/ab1629.* The software and hardware architecture of the real-time protection of in-vessel components in JET-ILW
Nuclear Fusion. 2019. DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/ab1a79.* Self-consistent pedestal prediction for JET-ILW in preparation of the DT campaign
Physics Of Plasmas. 2019. DOI : 10.1063/1.5096870.* Impact of fast ions on density peaking in JET: fluid and gyrokinetic modeling
Plasma Physics And Controlled Fusion. 2019. DOI : 10.1088/1361-6587/ab1e65.* On benchmarking of simulations of particle transport in ITER
Nuclear Fusion. 2019. DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/ab15e0.* On a fusion born triton effect in JET deuterium discharges with H-minority ion cyclotron range of frequencies heating
Nuclear Fusion. 2019. DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/ab19f5.* Investigation of deuterium trapping and release in the JET divertor during the third ILW campaign using TDS
Nuclear Materials And Energy. 2019. DOI : 10.1016/j.nme.2019.03.012.* Modelling of the effect of ELMs on fuel retention at the bulk W divertor of JET
Nuclear Materials And Energy. 2019. DOI : 10.1016/j.nme.2019.03.013.* Investigation of deuterium trapping and release in the JET ITER-like wall divertor using TDS and TMAP
Nuclear Materials And Energy. 2019. DOI : 10.1016/j.nme.2019.02.031.* Deposition of impurity metals during campaigns with the JET ITER-like Wall
Nuclear Materials And Energy. 2019. DOI : 10.1016/j.nme.2018.12.024.* Comparison of the structure of the plasma-facing surface and tritium accumulation in beryllium tiles from JET ILW campaigns 2011-2012 and 2013-2014
Nuclear Materials And Energy. 2019. DOI : 10.1016/j.nme.2019.02.011.* The effect of beryllium oxide on retention in JET ITER-like wall tiles
Nuclear Materials And Energy. 2019. DOI : 10.1016/j.nme.2019.02.022.* Dynamic modelling of local fuel inventory and desorption in the whole tokamak vacuum vessel for auto-consistent plasma-wall interaction simulations
Nuclear Materials And Energy. 2019. DOI : 10.1016/j.nme.2019.03.019.Teaching & PhD
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