Stephan Brunner
Senior Scientist
stephan.brunner@epfl.ch +41 21 693 45 65 http://crppwww.epfl.ch/~brunner/
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Infoscience publications
EPFL Infoscience
Verification of the Fourier-enhanced 3D finite element Poisson solver of the gyrokinetic full-f code PICLS
Computer Physics Communications. 2024-06-01. DOI : 10.1016/j.cpc.2024.109155.Gyrokinetic simulations of turbulence in magnetic fusion plasmas using a delta-f PIC scheme with evolving background
Lausanne, EPFL, 2024. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-10414.Validation of short-pulse reflectometry turbulence measurements with a synthetic diagnostic
Nuclear Fusion. 2024-02-01. DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/ad15b1.Gyrokinetic turbulence modeling of a high performance scenario in JT-60SA
Nuclear Fusion. 2024-02-01. DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/ad0c0a.Study of fast-ion-driven toroidal Alfvén eigenmodes impacting on the global confinement in TCV L-mode plasmas
Frontiers in Physics. 2023. DOI : 10.3389/fphy.2023.1225787.Moment-based approach to the flux-tube linear gyrokinetic model
Journal Of Plasma Physics. 2023-08-10. DOI : 10.1017/S0022377823000715.The competing effects of wave amplitude and collisions on multi-ion species suppression of stimulated Brillouin scattering in inertial confinement fusion Hohlraums
Physics Of Plasmas. 2023-04-01. DOI : 10.1063/5.0130785.A method for density fluctuation measurements using pulse reflectometry
Nuclear Fusion. 2023-07-01. DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/acd5e0.Global 'zero particle flux-driven' gyrokinetic analysis of the density profile for a TCV plasma
Plasma Physics And Controlled Fusion. 2023-05-01. DOI : 10.1088/1361-6587/acc96d.Local gyrokinetic simulations of tokamaks with non-uniform magnetic shear
Plasma Physics And Controlled Fusion. 2023-01-01. DOI : 10.1088/1361-6587/aca715.A synthetic phase-contrast imaging diagnostic with spatial filtering for gyrokinetic simulations
Plasma Physics And Controlled Fusion. 2023-02-01. DOI : 10.1088/1361-6587/aca4f7.Linear scattering theory of short-pulse reflectometry
Plasma Physics And Controlled Fusion. 2023-01-01. DOI : 10.1088/1361-6587/aca826.Ultra long turbulent eddies, magnetic topology, and the triggering of internal transport barriers in tokamaks
Nuclear Fusion. 2023-01-01. DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/aca213.Overview of the TCV tokamak experimental programme
Nuclear Fusion. 2022-04-01. DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/ac369b.Gyrokinetic simulations of turbulence and zonal flows driven by steep profile gradients using a delta-f approach with an evolving background Maxwellian
Physics Of Plasmas. 2022-10-01. DOI : 10.1063/5.0106661.Electron-cyclotron resonance heating and current drive source for flux-driven gyrokinetic simulations of tokamaks
Plasma Physics And Controlled Fusion. 2022-09-01. DOI : 10.1088/1361-6587/ac7974.Experimental confirmation of efficient island divertor operation and successful neoclassical transport optimization in Wendelstein 7-X
Nuclear Fusion. 2022-04-01. DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/ac2cf5.Effect of collisions on non-adiabatic electron dynamics in ITG-driven microturbulence
Physics Of Plasmas. 2021-09-01. DOI : 10.1063/5.0055303.A phase-contrast-imaging core fluctuation diagnostic and first-principles turbulence modeling for JT-60SA
Nuclear Fusion. 2021. DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/ac2081.A non-twisting flux tube for local gyrokinetic simulations
Plasma Physics And Controlled Fusion. 2021-06-01. DOI : 10.1088/1361-6587/abf8f4.Quasilinear treatment of wave-particle interactions in the electron cyclotron range and its implementation in a gyrokinetic code
Plasma Physics And Controlled Fusion. 2021-06-01. DOI : 10.1088/1361-6587/abf53f.Nonlocal effects in negative triangularity TCV plasmas
Plasma Physics And Controlled Fusion. 2021-04-01. DOI : 10.1088/1361-6587/abe39d.Nonlinear kinetic simulation study of the ion-ion streaming instability in single- and multi-ion species plasmas
Physics Of Plasmas. 2021-02-01. DOI : 10.1063/5.0015302.Moment approach of the multi-species non-linear Coulomb collision operator adapted to particle-in-cell codes
Plasma Physics And Controlled Fusion. 2021-02-01. DOI : 10.1088/1361-6587/abc92b.Gyrokinetic simulations on many- and multi-core architectures with the global electromagnetic Particle-In-Cell Code ORB5
Computer Physics Communications. 2021. DOI : 10.1016/j.cpc.2020.107208.Studying the effect of non-adiabatic passing electron dynamics on microturbulence self-interaction in fusion plasmas using gyrokinetic simulations
Lausanne, EPFL, 2020. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-8206.How eigenmode self-interaction affects zonal flows and convergence of tokamak core turbulence with toroidal system size
Journal of Plasma Physics. 2020-09-28. DOI : 10.1017/S0022377820000999.Collisional gyrokinetic full-f particle-in-cell simulations on open field lines with PICLS
Contributions to Plasma Physics. 2020. DOI : 10.1002/ctpp.201900117.Validation of the BEAMS3D neutral beam deposition model on Wendelstein 7-X
Nuclear Fusion. 2020-07-01. DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/ab8e61.Wall conditioning in fusion devices with superconducting coils
Plasma Physics And Controlled Fusion. 2020-03-01. DOI : 10.1088/1361-6587/ab5ad0.Eliminating turbulent self-interaction through the parallel boundary condition in local gyrokinetic simulations
Journal of Plasma Physics. 2020-03-20. DOI : 10.1017/S0022377820000197.Using an antenna as a tool for studying microturbulence and zonal structures in tokamaks with a global gyrokinetic GPU-enabled particle-in-cell code
Lausanne, EPFL, 2020. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-10127.FCC-hh: The Hadron Collider: Future Circular Collider Conceptual Design Report Volume 3
European Physical Journal-Special Topics. 2019-07-01. DOI : 10.1140/epjst/e2019-900087-0.HE-LHC: The High-Energy Large Hadron Collider Future Circular Collider Conceptual Design Report Volume 4
The European Physical Journal Special Topics. 2019-07-01. DOI : 10.1140/epjst/e2019-900088-6.FCC-ee: The Lepton Collider: Future Circular Collider Conceptual Design Report Volume 2
European Physical Journal-Special Topics. 2019-06-01. DOI : 10.1140/epjst/e2019-900045-4.Effects of collisionality and T e /T i on fluctuations in positive and negative δ tokamak plasmas
Nuclear Fusion. 2019-10-30. DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/ab4d75.Orb5: A global electromagnetic gyrokinetic code using the PIC approach in toroidal geometry
Computer Physics Communications. 2019. DOI : 10.1016/j.cpc.2019.107072.High-Order Accurate Conservative Finite Difference Methods For Vlasov Equations In 2D+2V
Siam Journal On Scientific Computing. 2019-01-01. DOI : 10.1137/19M1238551.Investigation of the role of electron temperature gradient modes in electron heat transport in TCV plasmas
Nuclear Fusion. 2019-12-01. DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/ab3de4.First principles gyrokinetic analysis of electromagnetic plasma instabilities
Plasma Physics And Controlled Fusion. 2019-11-01. DOI : 10.1088/1361-6587/ab4109.Global Flux-Driven Simulations of Ion Temperature-Gradient and Trapped-Electron Modes Driven Turbulence with an Improved Multithreaded Gyrokinetic PIC Code
Lausanne, EPFL, 2019. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9575.Linearized Coulomb Collision Operator for Simulation of Interpenetrating Plasma Streams
Ieee Transactions On Plasma Science. 2019-05-01. DOI : 10.1109/TPS.2019.2897790.Pullback Scheme Implementation in ORB5
Computer Physics Communication. 2019. DOI : 10.1016/j.cpc.2018.12.002.Gyrokinetic analysis of radial dependence and global effects on the zero particle flux condition in a TCV plasma
Plasma Physics And Controlled Fusion. 2019. DOI : 10.1088/1361-6587/ab09bd.The effect of background flow shear on gyrokinetic turbulence in the cold ion limit
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 2019-04-26. DOI : 10.1088/1361-6587/ab1320.Simulating background shear flow in local gyrokinetic simulations
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 2019-03-26. DOI : 10.1088/1361-6587/ab06a4.Linear theory of electron-plasma waves at arbitrary collisionality
Journal of Plasma Physics. 2019-04-08. DOI : 10.1017/S0022377819000266.Global turbulence features across marginality and non-local pedestal-core interactions
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 2019-02-07. DOI : 10.1088/1361-6587/aaf7e7.Investigating the radial structure of axisymmetric fluctuations in the TCV tokamak with local and global gyrokinetic GENE simulations
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 2018. DOI : 10.1088/1361-6587/aaa2dc.Identifying microturbulence regimes in a TCV discharge making use of physical constraints on particle and heat fluxes
Physics of Plasmas. 2018. DOI : 10.1063/1.5006408.Experimental observations of modes with geodesic acoustic character from the core to the edge in the TCV tokamak
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 2018. DOI : 10.1088/1361-6587/aaa71d.Overview of recent physics results from MAST
Nuclear Fusion. 2017. DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/aa65e0.Collisional damping rates for electron plasma waves reassessed
Physical Review E. 2017. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevE.96.043208.Physics and performance of the I-mode regime over an expanded operating space on Alcator C-Mod
Nuclear Fusion. 2017. DOI : 10.1088/1741-4326/aa8570.Longitudinal and Transverse Instability of Ion Acoustic Waves
Physical Review Letters. 2017. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.055002.An arbitrary wavelength solver for global gyrokinetic simulations. Application to the study of fine radial structures on microturbulence due to non-adiabatic passing electron dynamics
Physics Of Plasmas. 2017. DOI : 10.1063/1.4976120.Development and application of Eulerian and Particle-in-Cell gyrokinetic codes for studying the effect of non-adiabatic passing electron dynamics on microturbulence
Lausanne, EPFL, 2016. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7286.Resonance between heat-carrying electrons and Langmuir waves in inertial confinement fusion plasmas
Physics Of Plasmas. 2016. DOI : 10.1063/1.4939603.Linear multispecies gyrokinetic flux tube benchmarks in shaped tokamak plasmas
Physics Of Plasmas. 2016. DOI : 10.1063/1.4942539.Vlasov simulations of electron-ion collision effects on damping of electron plasma waves
Physics Of Plasmas. 2016. DOI : 10.1063/1.4943194.Flux-tube and global grid-based gyrokinetic simulations of plasma microturbulence and comparisons with experimental TCV measurements
Lausanne, EPFL, 2016. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-7065.A portable platform for accelerated PIC codes and its application to GPUs using OpenACC
Computer Physics Communications. 2016. DOI : 10.1016/j.cpc.2016.05.008.Computational challenges in magnetic-confinement fusion physics
Nature Physics. 2016. DOI : 10.1038/nphys3744.Demonstrating the saturation of stimulated Brillouin scattering by ion acoustic decay using fully kinetic simulations
Physics Of Plasmas. 2015. DOI : 10.1063/1.4930131.Improved confinement in high-density H-modes via modification of the plasma boundary with lower hybrid waves
Physics Of Plasmas. 2015. DOI : 10.1063/1.4920964.Multi-dimensional Vlasov simulations and modeling of trapped-electron-driven filamentation of electron plasma waves
Physics Of Plasmas. 2015. DOI : 10.1063/1.4917482.How non-adiabatic passing electron layers of linear microinstabilities affect turbulent transport
Physics Of Plasmas. 2015. DOI : 10.1063/1.4922659.Collisionless microtearing modes in hot tokamaks: Effect of trapped electrons
Physics Of Plasmas. 2015. DOI : 10.1063/1.4927579.Generalized radiation boundary conditions in gyrotron oscillator modeling
Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves. 2015. DOI : 10.1007/s10762-015-0204-2.Investigating profile stiffness and critical gradients in shaped TCV discharges using local gyrokinetic simulations of turbulent transport
Plasma Physics And Controlled Fusion. 2015. DOI : 10.1088/0741-3335/57/5/054010.ADX: a high field, high power density, advanced divertor and RF tokamak
Nuclear Fusion. 2015. DOI : 10.1088/0029-5515/55/5/053020.Quantitative study of the trapped particle bunching instability in Langmuir waves
Physics Of Plasmas. 2015. DOI : 10.1063/1.4906884.Kinetic simulations and reduced modeling of longitudinal sideband instabilities in non-linear electron plasma waves
Physics Of Plasmas. 2014. DOI : 10.1063/1.4896753.Global gyrokinetic stability of collisionless microtearing modes in large aspect ratio tokamaks
Physics Of Plasmas. 2014. DOI : 10.1063/1.4893314.On the non-stiffness of edge transport in L-mode tokamak plasmas
Physics Of Plasmas. 2014. DOI : 10.1063/1.4876612.Complete multi-field characterization of the geodesic acoustic mode in the TCV tokamak
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 2014. DOI : 10.1088/0741-3335/56/7/072001.New insights into the decay of ion waves to turbulence, ion heating, and soliton generation
Physics Of Plasmas. 2014. DOI : 10.1063/1.4870090.Finite ballooning angle effects on ion temperature gradient driven mode in gyrokinetic flux tube simulations
Physics Of Plasmas. 2014. DOI : 10.1063/1.4868425.Imaging of molybdenum erosion and thermography at visible wavelengths in Alcator C-Mod ICRH and LHCD discharges
Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion. 2013. DOI : 10.1088/0741-3335/55/12/125010.Effects of LHRF on toroidal rotation in Alcator C-Mod plasmas
Nuclear Fusion. 2013. DOI : 10.1088/0029-5515/53/9/093015.Overview of experimental results and code validation activities at Alcator C-Mod
Nuclear Fusion. 2013. DOI : 10.1088/0029-5515/53/10/104004.Global Gyrokinetic Simulations of TEM Microturbulence
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 2013. DOI : 10.1088/0741-3335/55/7/074016.Kinetic Simulations of the Self-Focusing and Dissipation of Finite-Width Electron Plasma Waves
Physical Review Letters. 2013. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.105002.Global and local gyrokinetic simulations of high-performance discharges in view of ITER
Nuclear Fusion. 2013. DOI : 10.1088/0029-5515/53/7/073003.Kinetic Theory and Vlasov Simulation of Nonlinear Ion-Acoustic Waves in Multi-Ion Species Plasmas
Physical Review Letters. 2013. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.195004.Electron and ion kinetic effects on non-linearly driven electron plasma and ion acoustic waves
Physics Of Plasmas. 2013. DOI : 10.1063/1.4794346.Aspects of Linear Landau Damping in Discretized Systems
Physics of Plasmas. 2013. DOI : 10.1063/1.4792163.Collisions in Global Gyrokinetic Simulations of Tokamak Plasmas using the Delta-f Particle-In-Cell Approach
Lausanne, EPFL, 2013. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-5638.Recent TCV results – innovative plasma shaping to improve plasma properties and insight
Plasma and Fusion Research. 2012. DOI : 10.1585/pfr.7.2502148.Short wavelength ion temperature gradient turbulence
Physics Of Plasmas. 2012. DOI : 10.1063/1.4759458.Locality and universality in gyrokinetic turbulence
Physical Review Letters. 2012. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.235003.Assessment of turbulent beam ion redistribution in tokamaks through velocity space-dependent gyrokinetic analyses
Nuclear Fusion. 2012. DOI : 10.1088/0029-5515/52/9/094016.Synergy between ion temperature gradient turbulence and neoclassical processes in global gyrokinetic particle-in-cell simulations
Physics of Plasmas. 2012. DOI : 10.1063/1.3699189.Improving energy confinement in fusion plasmas by plasma shaping and current profile tailoring in the TCV tokamak
Communications SPS, SPG Mitteilungen, Communications de la SSP. 2012.Parallel filtering in global gyrokinetic simulations
Journal Of Computational Physics. 2012. DOI : 10.1016/j.jcp.2011.01.029.Global simulations of tokamak microturbulence: finite beta effects and collisions
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 2011. DOI : 10.1088/0741-3335/53/12/124027.Two-dimensional Vlasov simulation of electron plasma wave trapping, wavefront bowing, self-focusing, and sideloss
Physics Of Plasmas. 2011. DOI : 10.1063/1.3577784.The global version of the gyrokinetic turbulence code GENE
Journal Of Computational Physics. 2011. DOI : 10.1016/j.jcp.2011.05.034.Non-Linear Gyrokinetic Simulations of Microturbulence in TCV Electron Internal Transport Barriers
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 2011. DOI : 10.1088/0741-3335/53/5/054011.Convolution and iterative methods applied to low frequency waves in 3D configurations
Computer Physics Communications. 2011. DOI : 10.1016/j.cpc.2010.10.015.Integrated modelling of Ion Cyclotron Resonant Heating in toroidal system
Computer Physics Communications. 2011. DOI : 10.1016/j.cpc.2010.12.028.Full-field drift Hamiltonian particle orbits in 3D geometry
Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. 2011. DOI : 10.1088/0741-3335/53/2/024001.Nonlinear quasisteady state benchmark of global gyrokinetic codes
Physics of Plasmas. 2010. DOI : 10.1063/1.3518118.Global Nonlinear Electromagnetic Simulations of Tokamak Turbulence
IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science. 2010. DOI : 10.1109/TPS.2010.2055583.Neoclassical equilibria as starting point for global gyrokinetic microturbulence simulations
Physics of Plasmas. 2010. DOI : 10.1063/1.3519513.Toroidal Universal Drift Instability: A Global Gyrokinetic Study
Physics of Plasmas. 2010. DOI : 10.1063/1.3490238.Local and Global Eulerian Gyrokinetic Simulations of Microturbulence in Realistic Geometry with Applications to the TCV Tokamak
Lausanne, EPFL, 2010. DOI : 10.5075/epfl-thesis-4684.The effect of plasma triangularity on turbulent transport:modelling TCV experiments by linear and non linear gyrokinetic simulations
Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion. 2009. DOI : 10.1088/0741-3335/51/5/055016.A comprehensive gyrokinetic description of global electrostatic microinstabilities in a tokamak
Physics of Plasmas. 2009. DOI : 10.1063/1.3134022.Short wavelength ion temperature gradient mode and coupling with trapped electrons
Physics of Plasmas. 2009. DOI : 10.1063/1.3212890.Clarifications to the limitations of the s-alpha equilibrium model for gyrokinetic computations of turbulence
Physics of Plasmas. 2009. DOI : 10.1063/1.3096710.High- and Low-Confinement Modes in Simple Magnetized Toroidal Plasmas
Physical Review Letters. 2008. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.225002.Role of nonadiabatic untrapped electrons in global electrostatic ion temperature gradient driven modes in a tokamak
Physics of Plasmas. 2008. DOI : 10.1063/1.2957917.Venus plus delta f: A bootstrap current calculation module for 3-D configurations
Fusion Science and Technology. 2006. DOI : 10.13182/FST06-A1267.Experimental characterization of drift-interchange instabilities in a simple toroidal plasma
Physics of Plasmas. 2006. DOI : 10.1063/1.2356483.The transition from thermally driven to ponderomotively driven stimulated Brillouin scattering and filamentation of light in plasma
Physics of Plasmas. 2005. DOI : 10.1063/1.1931089.Trapped-particle instability leading to bursting in stimulated Raman scattering simulations
Physical Review Letters. 2004. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.145003.Method for computing protein binding affinity
Abstracts of Papers of the American Chemical Society. 2004.Applicability of the ballooning transform to trapped ion modes
Physics of Plasmas. 2000. DOI : 10.1063/1.873930.Global approach to the spectral problem of microinstabilities in tokamak plasmas using a gyrokinetic model
Physics of Plasmas. 1998. DOI : 10.1063/1.873113.Global approach to the spectral problem of microinstabilities in a cylindrical plasma using a gyrokinetic model
Physics of Plasmas. 1998. DOI : 10.1063/1.872718.Finite element approach to global gyrokinetic Particle-In-Cell simulations using magnetic coordinates
Computer Physics Communications. 1998. DOI : 10.1016/S0010-4655(98)00023-X.Sheath impedance effects in very high frequency plasma experiments
Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology a-Vacuum Surfaces and Films. 1996. DOI : 10.1116/1.579908.Reconstruction of the Time-Averaged Sheath Potential Profile in an Argon Radiofrequency Plasma Using the Ion Energy-Distribution
Plasma Sources Science & Technology. 1995. DOI : 10.1088/0963-0252/4/3/007.Alfven wave heating and stability
Physica Scripta. 1995. DOI : 10.1088/0031-8949/1995/T60/006.Global Marginal Stability of Taes in the Presence of Fast Ions
Nuclear Fusion. 1995. DOI : 10.1088/0029-5515/35/10/I03.Dielectric Tensor Operator of Hot Plasmas in Toroidal Axisymmetrical Systems
Physics of Fluids B-Plasma Physics. 1993. DOI : 10.1063/1.860804.Selected publications
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