O. P. Bardsley J. L. Baker
Power exhaust is a critical challenge for spherical tokamak reactors, making the design, optimisation and control of advanced divertor configurations crucial. These tasks are greatly simplified if the poloidal magnetic fields in the core and divertor regions can be varied independently. We present a novel method which fixes the core plasma equil…
Preprint PublishedS. Mijin D. Power R. Holden W. Hornsby D. Moulton F. Militello
In this manuscript we present the recently developed flexible framework for building both fluid and electron kinetic models of the tokamak Scrape-Off Layer in 1D - ReMKiT1D (Reactive Multi-fluid and Kinetic Transport in 1D). The framework can handle systems of non-linear ODEs, various 1D PDEs arising in fluid modelling, as well as PDEs arising from…
Preprint PublishedM.L. Richiusa P. Ireland J. Nicholas Z. Vizvary
The protection strategy adopted for the European DEMOnstration (EU-DEMO) fusion power reactor foresees the use of sacrificial components–referred to as limiters–dealing with plasma-wall contacts. Their aim is to protect the first wall (FW) against the huge amount of plasma energy (up to GigaJoules) released in a few milliseconds during disrupti…
Preprint PublishedAl Boboc P. Trimble G. Jones J. Fessey S. Cramp W. Studholme
We report on the selection, implementation and successful demonstration of a new automated laser control system for JET’s Far Infrared Interferometer, a diagnostic essential for machine protection. The new control system allows all laser subsystems and sensors to be interlocked and operated remotely in a precise and preprogramed manner, functiona…
Preprint PublishedF. Riva F. Militello S. Elmore J. T. Omotani B. Dudson N. R. Walkden MAST team
The STORM module of BOUT++ [L. Easy et al., Phys. Plasmas 21, 122515 (2014)] is generalized to simulate plasma turbulence at the periphery of tokamak devices in diverted configuration and it is used to carry out three-dimensional nonlinear flux-driven simulations in double null configuration with realistic experimental par…
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 …
Preprint PublishedM. Fitzgerald J. Buchanan R.J. Akers B.N. Breizman S.E. Sharapov
HALO (HAgis LOcust) solves the initial value Vlasov-Maxwell problem perturbatively for application to certain nonlinear wave-particle problems in tokamak plasmas. It uses the same basic approach as the HAGIS code (Pinches et al., 1998) for wave evolution but is built on the LOCUST-GPU full-orbit code (Akers et al., 2012) for the solution of the Ham…
Preprint PublishedF. Militello B. Dudson L. Easy A. Kirk P. Naylor
The interaction of L-mode and inter-ELM Scrape-Off Layer (SOL) filaments is investigated by simulating the dynamics of two seeded density perturbations with different initial separation. A numerical campaign of 2D and 3D simulations is presented to explore the effect that different filaments' perpendicular size and relative distance have on their r…
Preprint PublishedN. R. Walkden L. Easy F. Militello J. T. Omotani
Simulations have been carried out to establish how electron thermal physics, introduced in the form of a dynamic electron temperature, affects isolated filament motion and dynamics in 3D. It is found that thermal effects impact filament motion in two major ways when the filament has a significant temperature perturbation compared to its density per…
Preprint PublishedF. Militello N.R. Walkden T. Farley W.A. Gracias J. Olsen F. Riva L. Easy N. Fedorczak I. Lupelli J. Madsen A.H. Nielsen P. Ricci P. Tamain J. Young
Four numerical codes are employed to investigate the dynamics of Scrape-Off Layer filaments in tokamak relevant conditions. Experimental measurements were taken in the MAST device using visual camera imaging, which allows the evaluation of the perpendicular size and velocity of the filaments, as well as the combination of density and temperature as…
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