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UKAEA-STEP-PR(24)132024
The purpose of the digital workstream is the shorten the pathway to delivering a working fusion pilot plant. As with any development pathway there are rate limiting steps in a programme, a fairly major challenge that is common across fusion concepts is the limited possibility of physical testing with conditions close to that of a first wall environ…
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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(22)572022
The LOCUST GPU code has been applied to study the fast-ion transport caused by resonant magnetic perturbations in the high-performance Q = 10 ITER baseline scenario. The computational speed of the code is used calculate the impact of the ITER ELM-control-coil system on neutral beam heating efficiency, as well as producing detailed predictions o…
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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(21)692021
The ASCOT orbit-following code has been equipped with a model for simulating charge exchange (CX) of fast ions with background atoms in magnetically confined fusion plasmas. The model was successfully verified by comparing simulated reaction mean free paths to analytical values across a range of fusion-relevant parameters. ASCOT was used to simulat…
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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(21)192021
A novel high-performance computing algorithm, developed in response to the next generation of computational challenges associated with burning plasma regimes in ITER-scale tokamak devices, has been tested and is described herein. LOCUST-GPU 2 The Lorentz-Orbit Code for Use in Stellarators and Tokamaks (LOCUST) is designed for computationally scal…
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UKAEA-CCFE-CP(20)712020
The fast-ion transport has been investigated in low-collisionality discharges at ASDEX Upgrade and TCV using offaxis neutral beams. In both devices Alfven eigenmode activity was observed which does, however, not strongly affect the global fast-ion confinement. In contrast, charge exchange losses have been identified to have a strong effect. At TCV …
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UKAEA-CCFE-CP(20)772018
Neutral beam injection is one of the primary auxiliary heating systems for tokamak plasmas. Once the neutral beam leaves the neutraliser collisions with background neutral particles in the beamline and tokamak vessel re-ionises part of the neutral beam. These particles can be deflected by the tokamak magnetic field, potentially damaging unshielded …
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UKAEA-CCFE-CP(19)402019
In magnetic confinement devices, boundary turbulence is responsible for transporting plasma and energy from the well-confined region towards the material surfaces where it can severely harm reactor relevant machines. It is therefore essential to develop a solid understanding of the mechanisms behind the transport in the edge of the plasma. Large fl…
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UKAEA-CCFE-CP(19)122019
The design and unique feature of the first MAST-U fast-ion loss detector (FILD) [M. Garcia-Muñoz, Rev. Sci. Instrum 80, 053503 (2009)] is presented here. The MAST-U FILD head is mounted on an axially and angularly actuated mechanism that makes…
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UKAEA-CCFE-CP(18)032018
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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UKAEA-CCFE-PR(19)052018
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…
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