A. Loarte A. R. Polevoi M. Schneider S.D. Pinches E. Fable E. Militello Asp Y. Baranov F. Casson G. Corrigan L. Garzotti D. Harting P. Knight F. Koechl V. Parail D. Farina L. Figini H. Nordman P. Strand R. Sartori
The optimum conditions for access to and sustainment of H-mode plasmas and their expected plasma parameters in the Pre-Fusion Power Operation 1 (PFPO-1) phase of the ITER Research Plan, where the additional plasma heating will be provided by 20 MW of Electron Cyclotron Heating (ECH), are assessed in order to identify key open R&D issues. The as…
Preprint PublishedA. Loarte A. R. Polevoi M. Schneider S.D. Pinches E. Fable E. Militello Asp Y. Baranov F. Casson G. Corrigan L. Garzotti D. Harting P. Knight F. Koechl V. Parail D. Farina L. Figini H. Nordman P. Strand R. Sartori
The optimum conditions for access and sustainment of H-mode plasmas and their expected plasma parameters in the Pre-Fusion Operation 1 (PFPO-1) phase of the ITER Research Plan, where the additional plasma heating will be provided by 20 MW of Electron Cyclotron Heating (ECH), are assessed. The assessment is performed on the basis of empirical and…
Preprint PublishedS. Mijin F. Militello S. Newton J.T. Omotani R.J. Kingham
We present the first parallel electron transport results obtained using the newly developed 1D transport code SOL-KiT. In order to properly predict divertor heat loads it is of key importance to develop a thorough understanding of discrepancies between different parallel transport modelling approaches. With the capability to self-consistently sw…
Preprint PublishedD. Russel J. Myra F. Militello D. Moulton
The 2D scrape-off-layer turbulence code (nSOLT) includes 1D Boltzmann neutral-plasma interactions, a model of divertor recycling (introduced here), and a fixed source of plasma concentrated at the core-side boundary. 1) Neutral injection in the far-SOL is accomplished by specifying the density of Franck-Condon distributed neutrals streaming in from…
Preprint PublishedD. Galassi C. Theiler T. Body F. Manke P. Micheletti J. Omotani M. Wiesenberger M. Baquero-Ruiz I. Furno M. Giacomin E. Laribi F. Militello P. Ricci A. Stegmeir P. Tamain H. Bufferand G. Ciraolo H. De Oliveira A. F. Fasoli V. Naulin S. L. Newton N. Offeddu D. Sales Oliveira E. Serre N. Vianello
Transport processes around the magnetic X-point of tokamaks, such as turbulence and mean-field drifts, are scarcely understood and difficult to investigate in experiments. In this paper, we explore the dynamics in a newly developed X-point scenario on the basic toroidal plasma device TORPEX and use it to validate plasma edge turbulence codes. In-si…
Preprint PublishedL. Xiang F. Militello D. Moulton F. Subba L. Aho-Mantila D. Coster M. Wensing T. Lunt M. Wischmeier H. Reimerdes
The SOLPS-ITER simulations of European DEMO reactor, with 450 MW of power to be exhausted, show an increased operational space compared to the conventional single-null configuration. Using a reduced model with fluid neutrals and bundled impurities, we assessed the existence and the boundaries of operational space for DEMO with the conventional sing…
Preprint PublishedH. J. Sun RJ. Goldston A.Huber XQ. Xu J. Flanagan DC. McDonald E. de la Luna M. Maslov J. Harrison F. Militello J. Fessy S. Cramp JET Contributors
A study of a dataset of JET plasma with the Be/W ITER-like wall (JET-ILW) shows that reaching the edge MHD ballooning limit leads to confinement degradation. However, unlike JET plasma with a carbon wall (JET-C), the JET-ILW plasma stays in a marginal dithering phase for a relatively long period, associated with a higher a ( 20%) H-mode density lim…
Preprint PublishedF. Militello L. Aho-Mantila R. Ambrosino T. Body H. Bufferand G. Calabro’ G. Ciraolo D. Coster G. Di Gironimo P. Fanelli N. Fedorczak A. Herrmann P. Innocente R. Kembleton J. Lilburne T. Lunt D. Marzullo S. Merriman D. Moulton A. Nielsen J. Omotani G. Ramogida H. Reimerdes M. Reinhart P. Ricci F. Riva A. Stegmeir F. Subba W. Suttrop P. Tamain M. Teschke A. Thrysoe W. Treutterer S. Varoutis M. Wensing A. Wilde M. Wischmeier L.Y. Xiang
A thorough physics and engineering analysis of alternative divertor configurations is carried out by examining benefits and problems by comparing the baseline single null solution with a Snowflake, an X- and a Super-X divertor. It is observed that alternative configurations can provide margin and resilience against large power fluctuations, but the…
Preprint PurchaseL C Appel S Kwak F Militello J Svensson
A novel approach using Bayesian inference has been implemented to interpret the filamentary dynamics measured by a Langmuir probe fixed to a reciprocating assembly on MAST. The model describes the system as a superposition of time-displaced filaments and a fixed background component. Each filament is parameterised in terms of a characteristic rise …
Preprint PublishedC. Giroud N. Aiba F. Militello C. Challis A. Chankin B. Lomanowski D. Hatch J. Harrison D. Frigione D. Moulton S. Pamela F. Parra J. Parisi I. Putzai D. Refy S. Saarelma C. Stavrou B. Tal E. Belonohy S. Brezinsek S. Buller C. Bowman E. Delabie A. Field J. Fontdecaba A. Huber A. Meigs S. Menmuir J. Simpson JET Contributors
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