S.M. Kaye J.W. Connor C.M. Roach
In this paper, we review the confinement and transport properties observed and predicted in low aspect ratio tokamaks, or spherical tokamaks (STs), which can depart significantly from those observed at higher aspect ratio. In particular, thermal energy confinement scalings show a strong, near linear dependence of energy confinement time on toroidal…
Preprint PublishedH. Weisen C.F. Maggi M. Oberparleiter F.J. Casson S. Menmuir L Horvath F. Auriemma T.W. Bache N. Bonanomi Y. Camenen A. Chankin E. Delabie L. Frassinetti J. Garcia C. Giroud D. King R Lorenzini M. Marin P.A. Schneider P. Siren J. Varje E. Viezzer JET contributors
The isotope dependence of plasma transport has a significant impact on the performance of future D-T experiments in JET and ITER and eventually on the fusion gain and economics of future reactors. In preparation for future D-T operation on JET, dedicated experiments and comprehensive transport analysis were performed in H, D and H-D mixed plasma…
PreprintH. T. Kim M. Romanelli X. Yuan S. Kaye A.C.C. Sips L. Frassinetti J. Buchanan JET Contributors
This paper presents for the first time a statistical validation of predictive TRANSP simulations of plasma temperature using two transport models, GLF23 and TGLF, over a database of 80 baseline H-mode discharges in JET-ILW. While the accuracy of the predicted Te with TRANSP-GLF23 is affected by plasma collisionality, the dependency of predictions o…
Preprint PublishedW. Guttenfelder A.R. Field I. Lupelli T. Tala S.M. Kaye Y. Ren W.M. Solomon
Non-axisymmetric magnetic fields are used to perturbatively probe momentum transport physics in MAST L-mode plasmas. The low beta L-mode target was chosen to complement previous experiments conducted in high beta NSTX H-mode plasmas (ßN=3.5-4.6) where an inward momentum pinch was measured. In those cases quasi-linear gyrokinetic simulations of uns…
Preprint PublishedJ.E. Menard T. Brown L. El-Guebaly M. Boyer J. Canik B. Colling R. Raman Y. Zhai P. Buxton B. Covele C. D'Angelo A. Davis S. Gerhardt M. Gryaznevich M. Harb T.C. Hender S. Kaye D. Kingham M. Kotschenreuther S. Mahajan R. Maingi E. Marriott E.T. Meier L. Mynsberge C. Neumeyer M. Ono S.A. Sabbagh V. Soukhanovskii P. Valanju R. Woolley
A Fusion Nuclear Science Facility (FNSF) could play an important role in the development of fusion energy by providing the nuclear environment needed to develop fusion materials and components. The spherical torus/tokamak (ST) is a leading candidate for an FNSF due to its potentially high neutron wall loading and modular configuration. A key consid…
Preprint PublishedH. Reimerdes T. C. Hender S. A. Sabbagh J. M. Bialek M. S. Chu A. M. Garofalo M. P. Gryaznevich D. F. Howell G. L. Jackson R. J. La Haye Y. Q. Liu J. E. Menard G. A. Navratil M. Okabayashi S. D. Pinches A. C. Sontag E. J. Strait W. Zhu M
Dedicated experiments in the DIII-D tokamak J. L. Luxon, Nucl. Fusion, 42 , 614 2002, the Joint European Torus JET P. H. Rebut, R. J. Bickerton, and B. E. Keen, Nucl. Fusion 25 , 1011 1985, and the National Spherical Torus Experiment NSTX M. Ono, S. M. Kaye, Y.-K. M. Peng et al. , Nucl. Fusion 40 , 557 2000 reveal the commonalities of resistive wal…
PublishedA S Kaye H Altmann R Albanese D Ciric P Coad D Brennan F Durodie T Edlington D C Edwards R Felton T T C Jones A Lioure P Lomas J Mailloux I Monakhov M Nightingale J Pamela R Pearce V Riccardo J Rapp A Rolfe E Surrey S Rosanvallon T Todd, A Walden
JET supports ITER both in development of technology and in torus operations. The latter include the study of ITER-like scenarios, operation in tritium (a trace tritium campaign has recently been completed), mitigation of ELMs and disruptions, investigation of tritium retention, real time control of plasma parameters, and control of extreme plasma s…
PublishedValeria T. G. Riccardo Philip L. Andrew Alan Sandford Kaye Peter Noll
In view of the modification to the Joint European Torus (JET) plasma facing components foreseen for the 2004 shutdown, the disruption design criteria for invessel components have been updated building on the operational experience with divertor plasmas gained since the early 1990s. In fast disruptions the largest contribution to the electromechanic…
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