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- Labit, B., et al.
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Dependence on plasma shape and plasma fueling for small edge-localized mode regimes in TCV and ASDEX Upgrade
- 2019
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Ingår i: Nuclear Fusion. - : IOP Publishing. - 1741-4326 .- 0029-5515. ; 59:8
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- © 2019 Institute of Physics Publishing. All rights reserved. Within the EUROfusion MST1 work package, a series of experiments has been conducted on AUG and TCV devices to disentangle the role of plasma fueling and plasma shape for the onset of small ELM regimes. On both devices, small ELM regimes with high confinement are achieved if and only if two conditions are fulfilled at the same time. Firstly, the plasma density at the separatrix must be large enough (ne,sep/nG ∼ 0.3), leading to a pressure profile flattening at the separatrix, which stabilizes type-I ELMs. Secondly, the magnetic configuration has to be close to a double null (DN), leading to a reduction of the magnetic shear in the extreme vicinity of the separatrix. As a consequence, its stabilizing effect on ballooning modes is weakened.
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- Meyer, H.F., et al.
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Overview of physics studies on ASDEX Upgrade
- 2019
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Ingår i: Nuclear Fusion. - : IOP Publishing. - 1741-4326 .- 0029-5515. ; 59:11
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Forskningsöversikt (refereegranskat)abstract
- The ASDEX Upgrade (AUG) programme, jointly run with the EUROfusion MST1 task force, continues to significantly enhance the physics base of ITER and DEMO. Here, the full tungsten wall is a key asset for extrapolating to future devices. The high overall heating power, flexible heating mix and comprehensive diagnostic set allows studies ranging from mimicking the scrape-off-layer and divertor conditions of ITER and DEMO at high density to fully non-inductive operation (q 95 = 5.5, ) at low density. Higher installed electron cyclotron resonance heating power 6 MW, new diagnostics and improved analysis techniques have further enhanced the capabilities of AUG. Stable high-density H-modes with MW m-1 with fully detached strike-points have been demonstrated. The ballooning instability close to the separatrix has been identified as a potential cause leading to the H-mode density limit and is also found to play an important role for the access to small edge-localized modes (ELMs). Density limit disruptions have been successfully avoided using a path-oriented approach to disruption handling and progress has been made in understanding the dissipation and avoidance of runaway electron beams. ELM suppression with resonant magnetic perturbations is now routinely achieved reaching transiently . This gives new insight into the field penetration physics, in particular with respect to plasma flows. Modelling agrees well with plasma response measurements and a helically localised ballooning structure observed prior to the ELM is evidence for the changed edge stability due to the magnetic perturbations. The impact of 3D perturbations on heat load patterns and fast-ion losses have been further elaborated. Progress has also been made in understanding the ELM cycle itself. Here, new fast measurements of and E r allow for inter ELM transport analysis confirming that E r is dominated by the diamagnetic term even for fast timescales. New analysis techniques allow detailed comparison of the ELM crash and are in good agreement with nonlinear MHD modelling. The observation of accelerated ions during the ELM crash can be seen as evidence for the reconnection during the ELM. As type-I ELMs (even mitigated) are likely not a viable operational regime in DEMO studies of 'natural' no ELM regimes have been extended. Stable I-modes up to have been characterised using -feedback. Core physics has been advanced by more detailed characterisation of the turbulence with new measurements such as the eddy tilt angle - measured for the first time - or the cross-phase angle of and fluctuations. These new data put strong constraints on gyro-kinetic turbulence modelling. In addition, carefully executed studies in different main species (H, D and He) and with different heating mixes highlight the importance of the collisional energy exchange for interpreting energy confinement. A new regime with a hollow profile now gives access to regimes mimicking aspects of burning plasma conditions and lead to nonlinear interactions of energetic particle modes despite the sub-Alfvénic beam energy. This will help to validate the fast-ion codes for predicting ITER and DEMO.
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- Coburn, J., et al.
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First wall energy deposition during vertical displacement events on ITER
- 2020
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Ingår i: Physica Scripta. - : IOP Publishing. - 0031-8949 .- 1402-4896. ; T171:1
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The beryllium (Be) first wall energy deposition and melt damage profiles resulting from the current quench phase of an unmitigated, 5 MA/1.8 T upward vertical displacement event for ITER are investigated. Time dependent 2D magnetic flux profiles are calculated with the DINA code and used as input for the SMITER 3D field line tracing software. 3D maps of the wetted area and perpendicular heat flux q(perpendicular to) show that the majority of the energy deposition occurs on the upper first wall panels #8 and #9 SMITER simulations predict q(perpendicular to,peak) approximate to 190 MW m(-2) on the surfaces of upper FWPs #8 and #9 at the end of the similar to 450 ms current quench. The surface heat flux maps generated by SMITER are used as input in the MEMOS-U code, which models Be melt formation and dynamics. Simulations reveal peak surface temperatures of similar to 2200 K, inward surface damage of similar to 0.5 mm in depth, and average melt velocities of similar to 2 m s(-1). Although VDEs are in principle the easiest disruptive instability to avoid, the analysis demonstrates that any non-mitigated events or intentional VDEs taking place during low I-p, early operational phases of ITER for the purposes of estimating disruption forces, must be kept to a low number.
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- Thorén, Emil, et al.
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MEMOS 3D modelling of ELM-induced transient melt damage on an inclined tungsten surface in the ASDEX Upgrade outer divertor
- 2018
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Ingår i: Nuclear Materials and Energy. - : ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV. - 2352-1791. ; 17, s. 194-199
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The first MEMOS 3D simulations of liquid metal motion on an inclined bulk tungsten sample transiently molten by edge-localized modes (ELMs) are reported. The exposures took place at the outer ASDEX-Upgrade divertor with the tungsten surface tangent intersecting the magnetic field at similar to 18 degrees. Simulations confirm that the observed poloidal melt motion is caused by the volumetric J x B force with J the bulk replacement current triggered by thermionic emission. The final erosion profile and total melt build up are reproduced by employing the escaping thermionic current dependence on the incident heat flux derived from dedicated particle-in-cell simulations. Modelling reveals that melt dynamics is governed by the volumetric Lorentz force, capillary flows due to thermal surface tension gradients and viscous deceleration. The effect of the evolving surface deformation, that locally alters the field-line inclination modifying the absorbed power flux and the escaping thermionic current, in the final surface morphology is demonstrated to be significant.
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- Vignitchouk, Ladislas, et al.
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Validating heat balance models for tungsten dust in cold dense plasmas
- 2018
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Ingår i: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion. - : IOP PUBLISHING LTD. - 0741-3335 .- 1361-6587. ; 60:11
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The first comparison of dust radius and surface temperature estimates, obtained from spectroscopic measurements of thermal radiation, with simulations of dust heating and vaporization by the MIGRAINe dust dynamics code is reported. The measurements were performed during controlled tungsten dust injection experiments in the cold and dense plasmas of Pilot-PSI, reproducing ITER divertor conditions. The comparison has allowed us to single out the dominating role of the work function contribution to the dust heating budget. However, in the plasmas of interest, dust was found to enter the strong vaporization regime, in which its temperature is practically insensitive to plasma properties and the various uncertainties in modeling. This makes the dust temperature a poor figure of merit for model validation purposes. On the other hand, simple numerical scalings obtained from orbital-motion-limited estimates were found to be remarkably robust and sufficient to understand the main physics at play in such cold and dense plasmas.
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- Ratynskaia, Svetlana V., et al.
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Tungsten dust remobilization under steady-state and transient plasma conditions
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Ingår i: NUCLEAR MATERIALS AND ENERGY. - : Elsevier. - 2352-1791. ; 12, s. 569-574
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Remobilization is one of the most prominent unresolved fusion dust-relevant issues, strongly related to the lifetime of dust in plasma-wetted regions, the survivability of dust on hot plasma-facing surfaces and the formation of dust accumulation sites. A systematic cross-machine study has been initiated to investigate the remobilization of tungsten micron-size dust from tungsten surfaces implementing a newly developed technique based on controlled pre-adhesion by gas dynamics methods. It has been utilized in a number of devices and has provided new insights on remobilization under steady-state and transient conditions. The experiments are interpreted with contact mechanics theory and heat conduction models.
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- Thorén, Emil, et al.
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Simulations with current constraints of ELM-induced tungsten melt motion in ASDEX Upgrade
- 2017
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Ingår i: Physica Scripta. - : Institute of Physics Publishing (IOPP). - 0031-8949 .- 1402-4896. ; T170
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Melt motion simulations of recent ASDEX Upgrade experiments on transient-induced melting of a tungsten leading edge during ELMing H-mode are performed with the incompressible fluid dynamics code MEMOS 3D. The total current flowing through the sample was measured in these experiments providing an important constraint for the simulations since thermionic emission is considered to be responsible for the replacement current driving melt motion. To allow for a reliable comparison, the description of the space-charge limited regime of thermionic emission has been updated in the code. The effect of non-periodic aspects of the spatio-temporal heat flux in the temperature distribution and melt characteristics as well as the importance of current limitation are investigated. The results are compared with measurements of the total current and melt profile.
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