Marinoni, A.Brunner, S.Camenen, Y.Coda, S.Graves, J. P.Lapillonne, X.Pochelon, A.Sauter, O.Villard, L.2009-12-152009-12-152009-12-15200910.1088/0741-3335/51/5/055016https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/44844WOS:000265584300016The effect of plasma shape on confinement has been experimentally explored in the TCV tokamak revealing that the core electron heat transport is significantly reduced by a negative triangularity configuration, which could indicate a (partial) stabilization of the microinstabilities at play in a conventional positive triangularity configuration.Electron Heat-TransportEnergy ConfinementTokamakEquilibriaStabilityShapeBetaInstabilitiesGeometryLimitsThe effect of plasma triangularity on turbulent transport:modelling TCV experiments by linear and non linear gyrokinetic simulationstext::journal::journal article::research article