D. Hancock D. Homfray M. Porton I. Todd B. Wynne R. Bamber K. Flinders P. Jepson H. Lewtas H. Robinson
The development of improved designs for components which will be subject to high heat fluxes has been identified as a critical challenge for the realisation of commercial fusion power. This paper presents details of a facility which allows early verification of thermofluid and thermomechananical performance of prototype components and enables compa…
PreprintN. R. Walkden B. Labit H. Reimerdes J. Harrison T. Farley P. Innocente F. Militello the TCV Team the MST1 Team
Tangentially viewing fast camera footage of the low-field side snowflake minus divertor in TCV is analysed across a four point scan in which the proximity of the two X-points is varied systematically. The apparent flow observed in the post-processed movie shows two distinct regions of the camera frame exhibiting differing flow patterns. One flow in…
Preprint PublishedA. Turner A. Burns B. Colling J. Leppänen
Nuclear analysis supporting the design and licensing of ITER is traditionally performed using MCNP and the reference model ‘C-Model’, however the complexity of C-Model has resulted in the geometry creation and integration process becoming increasingly time-consuming. Serpent 2 is still a beta code, however recent enhancements mean that it could…
Preprint PublishedD. Moulton G. Corrigan J.R. Harrison B. Lipschultz JET Contributors
This paper further analyses the EDGE2D-EIRENE simulations presented by [Chankin et al (2017 Nucl. Mater. Energy 12 273], of L-mode JET plasmas in vertical-vertical (VV) and vertical-horizontal (VH) divertor configurations. As expected, the simulated outer divertor ionisation source peaks near the separatrix in VV …
Preprint PublishedD. Schwörer N. R. Walkden H. Leggate B. D. Dudson F. Militello T. Downes M. M. Turner
This paper presents the effect of self-consistent plasma backgrounds including plasma-neutral interactions, on the dynamics of filament propagation. The principle focus is on the influence of the neutrals on the filament through both direct interactions and through their influence on the plasma background. Both direct and indirect interactions infl…
Preprint PublishedR. Darkins D. M. Duffy P.-W. Ma S. T. Murphy
Ultrafast irradiation can drive the electrons in a material out of thermal equilibrium with the nuclei, producing hot, transient electronic states that modify the interatomic potential energy surface. We present, for the first time, a rigorous formulation of two-temperature molecular dynamics that can accommodate these electronic effects in the fo…
Preprint PublishedB. Madsen M. Salewski J. Huang A. S. Jacobsen O. Jones K. G. McClements the MAST team
Velocity-space tomography provides a way of diagnosing fast ions in a fusion plasma by combining measurements from multiple instruments. We use a toroidally viewing and a vertically viewing fast-ion D-alpha (FIDA) diagnostic installed on the spherical tokamak MAST (before the upgrade) to perform velocity-space tomography of the fast-ion distributio…
Preprint PublishedE. Surrey
There are several programmes within the fusion community that are engaged in the design of fusion devices to follow the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), referred to as “demonstrators”. These programmes have identified many issues over the past decade and research now concentrates on optimising the combination of systems …
Preprint PublishedY. Q. Wang H. E. Coules C. E. Truman D. J. Smith
Elastic follow-up is a mechanical boundary condition lying between constant load and constant strain control. It exists in many engineering components operating at high temperature and can result in dramatically different creep stress relaxation and strain accumulation rates in a localized region of a component. We have performed creep tests under …
Preprint PublishedM. R. Gilbert J.-Ch. Sublet
The processing code SPECTRA-PKA produces energy spectra of primary atomic recoil events (or primary knock-on atoms, PKAs) for any material composition exposed to an irradiation spectrum. Such evaluations are vital inputs for simulations aimed at understanding the evolution of damage in irradiated material, which is generated in cascade displacement…
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