L. Piron M. Baruzzo L. Baylor C. D. Challis M. P. Gryaznevich T. C. Hender R. B. Henriques N. Hawkes S. Jachmich E. Joffrin M. Lehnen M. Lennholm Y. Q. Liu J. Mailloux L. Moreira D. Valcarcel
This work describes the usage of Error Field Correction coil system [Barlow I. et al 2001 Fusion Eng. Des. 58-59 189], which is a set of 4 coils located external to the vessel of the JET device, with the aim of introducing non-axisymmetric n=1 magnetic field perturbations in various targeted plasma experiments. Besides being used to characterize…
PurchaseWiera Bielajewa Michelle Tindall Perumal Nithiarasu
Solution reconstruction from limited number of measurements is useful in many areas of heat transfer applications. Unlike the standard problems, such reconstruction problems are ill-posed; thus, the non-uniqueness of solution and inherent instability severely complicates the modelling process. Consequently, more conventional inverse analysis method…
PreprintT. Gheorghiu F. Militello J. Juul Rasmussen
Shear flows in turbulent fluids have been known to act as transport barriers for some time. An example of a shear flow generating mechanism is the E×B shear in plasma, which has a substantial impact on the dynamics of magnetic confinement fusion devices. The influence of this may be seen in the scrape-off layer (SOL) where blobs or filaments may b…
Preprint PublishedPeng Shi Yuhan Wang Li Gao Hongjuan Sun Qinghu Yang Xin Xu Chengshuo Shen Yanqiu Chen Qinlin Tao Zhipeng Cheng Haosheng Wu Lu Wang Zhongyong Chen Nengchao Wang Zhoujun Yang Jingchun Li Yonghua Ding Yuan Pan J-TEXT team
This article presents an in-depth study of the sequence of events leading to density limit disruption in J-TEXT tokamak plasmas, with an emphasis on boudary turbulent transport and the high-field-side high-density (HFSHD) front. These phenomena were extensively investigated by using Langmuir probe and Polarimeter-interferometer diagnostics. The res…
PreprintIT Chapman T Bestwick P Methven
Fusion power could be one of a few sustainable options in a portfolio required to replace fossil fuels as the world’s primary energy source. The attractive properties of fusion combined with the imperative to address climate change has resulted in a burgeoning interest in the field with a dramatic growth in privately-funded fusion ventures in …
PreprintH. J. C. Oliver S. E. Sharapov Z. Stancar M. Fitzgerald E. Tholerus B. N. Breizman M. Dreval J. Ferreira A. Figueiredo J. Garcia N. Hawkes D. L. Keeling P. G. Puglia P. Rodrigues A. Tinguely JET contributors
The Joint European Torus (JET) recently carried out an experimental campaign using a plasma consisting of both deuterium (D) and tritium (T). We observed a high-frequency mode using a reflectometer and an interferometer in a DT plasma heated with low power neutral beam injection, $P_{NBI} = 11.6$ $MW$. This mode were observed at a frequency $f =…
PreprintB. Poole A. Marsh D. Lunt C. Hardie M. Gorley C. Hamelin A. Harte
The high source stability and brightness of field emission gun equipped scanning electron microscopes (SEM) makes them ideal for high-resolution digital image correlation (HRDIC). However, their high initial capital cost can be prohibitive for research organisations and groups. Conventional thermionic SEMs using either a tungsten hairpin or LaB
PreprintD A Ryan R Martin N B Ayed L Kogan A Kirk the MAST Upgrade team
MAST Upgrade has just begun its second physics campaign. The set of magnetic probes used to diagnose the magnetic field and currents on MAST Upgrade are described, and their calibration procedures outlined including calculation of uncertainties. The arrays of installed instability diagnostics are described and the detection and diagnosis of a speci…
Preprint PublishedAndre Farinha Salua Hamaza Guy Bouroughes Mirko Kovac
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) have been shown to improve data gathering processes over large spacial and temporal scales at a low cost [1], as well as the automation of decision making processes in complex industrial settings [2]. The nuclear sector is no exception to this, being obvious applications structural health monitoring [3] and radiation…
PreprintO. Vallhagen I. Pusztai P. Helander S. L. Newton T. Fülöp
Pellet injection is used for fuelling and controlling discharges in tokamaks, and it is foreseen in ITER. During pellet injection, a movement of the ablated material towards the low-field side (or outward major radius direction) occurs because of the inhomogeneity of the magnetic field. Due to the complexity of the theoretical models, computer…
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