C. Vincent S. Allan G. Naylor R. Stephen S. Bray A. Thornton A. Kirk
Neutron flux measurements are important in fusion devices for both safety requirements and physics studies. A newsystem has been built for the Mega Amp Spherical Tokamak Upgrade (MAST Upgrade) that provides neutron count,DC and Campbell mode measurements for a 1μsperiod at 1 MHz. The acquisition system uses a Red Pitaya board tosample current from…
Preprint PurchaseRuth Sanderson Allan Sanderson Kwame Akowua
The feasibility of a new approach for pipe inspection has been explored using digital twins to enhance guided wave inspection. Guided wave inspection is well-established in the oil and gas industry to screen remotely long lengths of predominately straight pipeline for corrosion. However, inspection of complex geometries of pipe remains a challenge.…
PreprintJ. Leland S. Elmore A. Kirk H. v/d Meiden. J. Scholten S. Allan J. W. Bradley
Measurements made using flush-mounted Langmuir probes (FMPs) in tokamaks are difficult to interpret when operating at grazing angles of magnetic field incidence due to the effects of sheath expansion on the probe collection area. The super-X divertor on the upgraded Mega Ampere Spherical Tokamak (MAST-U) will have very shallow angles of magnetic fi…
Preprint PublishedL. W. Packer S. Allan S. B. Bradnam M. R. Gilbert T. Stainer
The measurement of the fusion neutron yield provides a direct relationship with fusion power and is hence an important measure of experimental performance. In pulsed neutron emission scenarios, such as those experienced in dense plasma focus devices, inertial confinement fusion and even in short-pulse tokamak experiments, considerations of the dyna…
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 PublishedRyan Sperry David T Fullwood Allan Harte Joao Quinta da Fonseca Eric R Homer Robert H Wagoner
Shear strain profiles along slip bands in a modified Rolls-Royce nickel superalloy (RR1000) were analyzed for tensile sample deformed by 2%. The strain increased with distance away from a grain boundary (GB), with maximum shear strain towards the center of the grain, indicating that dislocation nucleation generally occurred in the grain interior. T…
Preprint PublishedAlbert D. Smith Jack M. Donoghue Alistair J.W. Garner David Lunt Allan Harte Keith Wilford Philip J. Withers Michael Preuss
Proton irradiation is often used as a proxy for neutron irradiation but the irradiated layer is typically
Preprint PublishedN. Vianello D. Carralero C. K. Tsui V. Naulin M. Agostini J. Boedo B. Labit C. Theiler D. Aguiam S. Allan M. Bernert S. Costea I. Cziegler H. De Oliveira J. Galdon-Quiroga G. Grenfell A. Hakola C. Ionita H. Isliker A. Karpushov J. Kovacic B. Lipschultz R. Mauriozio K. McClements F. Militello J. Olsen J. J. Rasmussen T. Ravensbergen H. Reimerdes B. Schneider R. Schrittwieser M. Spolaore K. Verhaegh J. Vicente N. Walkden W. Zhang E. Wolfrum the ASDEX Upgrade Team the TCV team the EUROfusion MST1 Team
A detailed cross-device investigation on the role of filamentary dynamics in high density regimes has been performed within the EUROfusion framework comparing ASDEX-Upgrade (AUG) and TCV tokamaks. Both devices have run density ramp experiments at different levels of plasma current, keeping toroidal field or q95 constant in order to disentangle the …
Preprint PublishedMikhail Lavrentiev N.L. Allan C. Wragg
Extensive Monte Carlo simulations of lithium oxide, Li2O, an important material for fusion applications over a wide range of temperatures have been performed. In the low temperature range 1 – 500 K, quantum corrections to the enthalpy and unit cell size were determined. We show that the classical Monte Carlo underestimates both these q…
Preprint PublishedJames Harrison RJ Akers SY Allan JS Allcock JO Allen L Appel M Barnes N Ben Ayed W Boeglin C Bowman J Bradley P Browning P Bryant M Carr M Cecconello CD Challis S Chapman IT Chapman GJ Colyer S Conroy NJ Conway M Cox G Cunningham RO Dendy W Dorland BD Dudson L Easy SD Elmore T Farley X Feng AR Field A Fil GM Fishpool M Fitzgerald
Recent results from MAST address key physics issues for ITER operations and the design of future devices, by advancing our understanding of through analysis of high-resolution data and numerical modelling. Modelling of the interaction between filaments with BOUT++ indicates filaments separated by more than 5x their width move independently, and …
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