H Meyer the STEP Team
The programme to design plasma scenarios for the Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production (STEP), a reactor concept aiming at net electricity production, seeks to exploit the inherent advantages of the spherical tokamak (ST) while making conservative assumptions about plasma performance. This approach is motivated by the large gap between present-da…
PreprintFabio Federici Matthew L. Reinke Bruce Lipschultz Andrew J. Thornton James R. Harrison Jack J. Lovell Peter Ryan Matthias Bernert Hendrik F. Meyer the MAST Upgrade team
A prototype infrared video bolometer (IRVB) was succesfully deployed in MAST-U, the first deployment of such a diagnostic in spherical tokamaks. The IRVB was designed to study the radiation around the x-point and has the potential to return emissivity profiles of unprecedented spatial resolution. The system was fully characterised prior installatio…
Preprint PurchaseL. Howlett I. Cziegler S. Freethy H. Meyer
A comprehensive L-H power threshold study of MAST data is presented, with a detailed categorisation of transition and intermediate behaviour and a comparison of the results to scaling laws. Preliminary studies into the ion and electron heat flux for transitions at different densities are introduced. The first results of an L-H transition study o…
PreprintHendrik Meyer the STEP Plasma Control Heating & Current Drive Team
With steady progress on ITER project and the design of DEMO, the international community is now entering an era in which fusion power on the grid could become a reality within the next 20 – 30 years. In this environment the UK has started the ambitious Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production (STEP) programme, aiming to develop a compact protot…
PreprintJ. Mitchell A. Parrot F. E. Eriksson F. Casson O. Bardsley M. Lennholm H. Meyer S. Aleiferis
In this paper we present optimized actuator trajectories, evolving in time and space, of non-inductive ramp-up scenarios for the Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production (STEP). These trajectories are computed by solving a non-linear, multi-objective, constrained, finite-time optimal control problem. A method unique to STEP ramp-up studies that prov…
Preprint PublishedL. Howlett I. Cziegler S.J. Freethy H. Meyer
Spherical tokamaks are known to differ from conventional tokamaks in a number of physics areas, but our understanding is limited by a comparative lack of experimental data. A comprehensive study of the density dependence of the H-mode power threshold PLH on the Mega-Amp Spherical Tokamak (MAST) is presented, mapping out the low-density a…
PreprintHyun-Tae Kim Francis Casson Hendrik Meyer Geof Cunningham Rory Scannell Lucy Kogan James Harrison Seong-Cheol Kim Jeong-Won Lee Jin-Woo Gwak Yong-Su Na Xavier Litaudon Gloria Falchetto3 MAST team
This paper describes the development of electromagnetic plasma burn-through model. Full circuit equations describing the currents in solenoid, poloidal field coil, and toroidally conducting passive structure have been integrated into the differential equation system of the plasma energy and particle balances in DYON. This enables consistent calcula…
Preprint PublishedJ.C. Hillesheim E. Delabie E. Solano C.F. Maggi H. Meyer E. Belonohy I. Carvalho E. de la Luna A. Drenik M. Gelfusa C. Giroud J. Hobirk A.E. Hubbard A. Kappatou H.T. Kim A. Huber E. Lerche B. Lomanowski M. Mantsinen S. Menmuir I. Nunes E. Peluso F. Rimini P.A. Schneider M. Stamp G. Verdoolaege JET Contributors
Unraveling the conditions that permit access to H-mode continues to be an unresolved physics issue for tokamaks, and accurate extrapolations are important for planning ITER operations and DEMO design constraints. Experiments have been performed in JET, with the ITER-like W/Be wall, to increase the confidence of predictions for the L-H transition po…
Preprint PublishedW. Suttrop A. Kirk V. Bobkov M. Cavedon M. Dunne R.M. McDermott H. Meyer R. Nazikian C. Paz-Soldan D.A. Ryan E. Viezzer M. Willensdorfer The ASDEX Upgrade MST1 Teams
Access conditions for full suppression of edge localised modes (ELMs) by magnetic perturbations (MP) in low density high confinement mode (H-mode) plasmas are studied in the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak. The main empirical requirements for full ELM suppression in our experiments are: 1. The poloidal spectrum of the MP must be aligned for best plasma respo…
PublishedHendrik Meyer
The ASDEX Upgrade (AUG) programme is geared towards developing the physics basis for ITER and (EU)-DEMO and is jointly executed with the EUROfusion Medium Size Tokamak task force. Integrated scenario development to prepare future device operation, detailed physics studies to improve predictability of fusion devices and testing of fusion relevant t…
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