A. J. Leide E. Hintsala M. Davies D. Goddard D. Liu
Coated nuclear fuel particles, most commonly tri-structural isotropic (TRISO), are intended for use in advanced high temperature reactors. The coatings of these particles are designed to protect and encapsulate the fuel during all stages of the fuel cycle, from manufacturing, through operation and up to disposal. It is vital to understand the me…
PublishedC. Hill Dipti K. Heinola A. Dubois N. Sisourat A. Taoutioui H. Agueny K. Tokesi I. Ziaeian C. Illescas A. Jorge L. Mendez A. S. Kadyrov N. W. Antonio A. M. Kotian T. Kirchner A. C. K. Leung J. Ko J. K. Lee8 O. Marchuk M. G. O'Mullane E. Litherland-Smith G. I. Pokol O. Asztalos P. Balazs Y. Wu C. C. Jia L. Liu J. G. Wang
The injection of energetic neutral particles into the plasma of magnetic confinement fusion reactors is a widely-accepted method for heating such plasmas; various types of neutral beam are also used for diagnostic purposes. Accurate atomic data are required to properly model beam penetration into the plasma and to interpret photoemission spectra…
PublishedL. 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…
PurchaseWenxing Liu Hanlin Niu Robert Skilton Joaquin Carrasco
When transferring a Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) model from simulation to the real world, the performance could be unsatisfactory since the simulation cannot imitate the real world well in many circumstances. This results in a long period of fine-tuning in the real world. This paper proposes a self-supervised vision-based DRL method that al…
PurchaseWenxing Liu Hanlin Niu Wei Pan Guido Herrmann Joaquin Carrasco
Sim-and-real training is a promising alternative to sim-to-real training for robot manipulations. However, the current sim-and-real training is neither efficient, i.e., slow convergence to the optimal policy, nor effective, i.e., sizeable real-world robot data. Given limited time and hardware budgets, the performance of sim-and-real training is …
PurchaseXu Yang Yueqiang Liu Wei Xu Yuling He Guoliang Xia
The influence of negative plasma triangularity on the n=1 (n is the toroidal mode number) tearing mode (TM) stability has been numerically investigated, with results compared to that of the positive triangularity counterpart. By matching the safety factor profile for a series of toroidal equilibria, several important plasma parameters, including th…
Preprint PublishedGuoliang Xia Yueqiang Liu T.C. Hender K.G. McClements E. Trier E. Tholerus
In this work, the MARS-F/K codes (Liu Y Q et al 2000 Phys. Plasmas 7 3681 & Liu Y Q et al 2008 Phys. Plasmas 15 112503) are utilized to model the passive and active control of the n=1 (n is the toroidal mode number) resistive wall mode (RWM) in a spherical tokamak (aspect rat…
Preprint PublishedJ. Hargreaves S. Moore G. Yuan D. Liu R. Abbot J. Tufnail H. Dawson T.L Martin
The reduced activation ferritic/martensitic steel Eurofer 97 is employed by many concept designs for the plasma-facing first wall of the EU DEMO fusion reactor. These designs feature precision joints between Eurofer 97 coolant piping for which novel laser-keyhole welding is one proposed technique. In this work, the microstructure of laser-keyhol…
PublishedGuoliang Xia T.C. Hender Yueqiang Liu E. Trier
The Spherical Tokamak for Energy Production (STEP) is a UKAEA program that aims to deliver a prototype fusion energy plant and a path to commercial viability of fusion [1]. The low aspect ratio spherical tokamak is attractive because of its potential to achieve high normalized beta βN operation, and the fusion power ~β…
PreprintChris Hardie Rhys Thomas Yang Liu Philipp Frankel Fionn Dunne
Classical crystal plasticity formulation based on dislocation slip was extended to include the mechanisms of dislocation channelling, with associated strain softening which is observed in many alloys post irradiation. The performance of the model was evaluated against experimental data on Zircaloy-4, which included engineering stress-strain respons…
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