In this paper we present the FreeGSNKE Pulse Design Tool (FPDT), an open-source, purely Python-based computational framework that enables in silico predictive design and testing of experimental tokamak plasma scenarios and control strategies. The FPDT couples FreeGSNKE’s evolutive equilibrium solver with a new virtual Plasma Control System (PCS),…
In future demonstration fusion power plants, plasma facing components will face high steady state and ultra-high transient heat loads from the plasma. Introducing low thermal conductivity features to the component can reduce the peak temperatures seen by the coolant pipe, but at the trade-off of a loss of steady-state performance. Producing low-con…
