R.A. Tinguely P.G. Puglia N. Fil S. Dowson M. Porkolab A. Fasoli D. Testa JET Contributors
This paper presents results of extensive analysis of mode excitation observed during the operation of the Alfvén Eigenmode Active Diagnostic (AEAD) in the JET tokamak during the 2019-2020 deuterium campaign. Six of eight toroidally-spaced antennas, each with independent power and phasing, were successful in actively exciting stable MHD modes in…
Preprint PublishedS.J.P.Pamela G.T.A.Huijsmans A.Bhole B.Nkonga M.Hoelzl I.Krebs
Non-linear MHD simulations play an essential role in active research and understanding of tokamak plasmas for fusion energy. The development of MHD codes like JOREK is a key aspect of this research effort. In this paper, we present a fully-working version of the full-MHD model in JOREK, a significant advancement from the reduced-MHD model used f…
Preprint PublishedO. P. Bardsley T. C. Hender
Reduced activation ferritic steels are an attractive option for use in large structural components surrounding tokamak plasmas in future fusion power plants, but their ferromagnetic response to the confining magnetic fields must be properly understood. Simultaneously, the advantages of operating at high plasma elongation push tokamak designs tow…
Preprint PublishedAllan HarteHuw DawsonDavid BowdenSimon KirkMike Gorley
The suitability of post-weld heat treatments are often measured in terms of reducing residual stress and/or ensuring hardness homogeneity. Here we use detailed digital image correlation to quantify the localised deformation behaviour of laser welded Eurofer-97 both with and without a normalising and tempering treatment. This is coupled with detaile…
Preprint PublishedAndrey Litnovsky Janina Schmitza Felix Klein Karen De Lannoyea Sophie Weckauf Arkadi Kreter Marcin Rasinski Jan W. Coenen Christian Linsmeier Jesus Gonzalez-Julian Martin Bram Ivan Povstugar Thomas Morgan Duc Nguyen-Manh Mark Gilbert Damjan Sobieraj Jan S. Wróbel
During an accident with loss-of-coolant and air ingress in DEMO, the temperature of tungsten first wall cladding may exceed 1000oC and remain for months leading to tungsten oxidation. The radioactive tungsten oxide can be mobilized to the environment at rates of 10 – 150 kg per hour. Smart tungsten-based alloys are under develop…
Preprint PublishedJan S. Wrobel Marcin R. Zemla Duc Nguyen-Manh Par Olsson Luca Messina Christophe Domain Tomasz Wejrzanowski Sergei L. Dudarev
Point defects in body-centred cubic Fe, Cr and concentrated random magnetic Fe-Cr are investigated using density functional theory and theory of elasticity. The volume of a substitutional Cr atom in ferromagnetic bcc Fe is approximately 18% larger than the volume of a host Fe atom, whereas the volume of a substitutional Fe atom in antiferromagnetic…
Preprint PublishedE. Lazzaro L. Bonalumi S. Nowak D. Brunetti
In tokamak operation the control of dangerous MHD instabilities, possibly in r-t scenarios, must rely on prompt robust diagnostics of the state and stability of the system. The set of magnetic signals measured on the outside of the plasma boundary, based on the Zakharov-Shafranov, Shkarowsky, Wootton (ZSSW) current moments has been always used f…
Preprint PublishedD. Brunetti C. J. Ham J. P. Graves C. Wahlberg W. A. Cooper
Anisotropy and some limiting toroidal flow effects on the stability of non resonant ideal magnetohydrodynamic modes in hybrid shaped tokamak plasmas are investigated within the ideal MHD infernal mode framework. Such effects are found to alter the plasma magnetic well/hill, which can be interpreted as imparing the average curvature, and the stre…
Preprint PublishedV. Aslanyan S. Taimourzadeh L. Shi Z. Lin G. Dong P. Puglia M. Porkolab R. Dumont S. E. Sharapov J. Mailloux M. Tsalas M. Maslov A. Whitehead R. Scannell S. Gerasimov S. Dorling S. Dowson H. K. Sheikh T. Blackman G. Jones A. Goodyear K. K. Kirov P. Blanchard A. Fasoli D. Testa JET Contributors
The Gyrokinetic Toroidal Code (GTC) has been used to study Toroidal Alfven Eigenmodes (TAEs) in high-performance plasmas. Experiments performed at the Joint European Torus, where TAEs were driven by energetic particles arising from Neutral Beams, ion cyclotron resonant heating and resonantly excited by dedicated external antennas, have been simulat…
Preprint Published