Closed loop control of the sawtooth instability in nuclear fusion

In nuclear fusion the sawtooth instability is an important plasma phenomenon, having both positive and negative effects on the tokamak plasma. Control of its period is essential in future nuclear fusion reactors. This paper presents a control oriented model of the sawtooth instability, with current drive as input and sawtooth period as output,...

Feasibility of borehole radar measurements to monitor water/steam fronts in EOR applications

A technique capable of capturing the dynamic of the reservoir fluids in the proximity of production wells would provide enormous benefit to the reservoir management; in fact, monitoring can be used to develop a feedback loop between measurements and control technologies to optimize the production. This paper examines the feasibility of a...