Showing 1 - 10 of 54 Journals Results
2020
UKAEA-CCFE-PR(20)137
K. Verhaegh B. Lipschultz C. Bowman B.P. Duval U. Fantz A. Fil D. Moulton O. Myatra D. Wünderlich F. Federici D.S. Gahle J.R. Harrison A. Perek M. Wensing
Detachment, an important mechanism for reducing target heat deposition, is achieved through reductions in power, particle and momentum; which are induced through plasma-atom and plasma-molecule interactions. Experimental research in how those reactions precisely contribute to detachment is limited. Both plasma-atom as well as plasma-molecule intera…
Preprint Purchase2020
UKAEA-CCFE-PR(20)09
C. Bowman J. R. Harrison B. Lipschultz S. Orchard K. J. Gibson M. Carr K. Verhaegh O. Myatra
Advancing our understanding of divertor plasma physics is limited by an inability to directly determine the plasma characteristics (density, temperature, etc) over the entire divertor cross-section. At best, diagnostics are able to measure ne and Te at isolated points. More commonly however, diagnostics only measure higher-level quantities (e.g. em…
Preprint Published2020
UKAEA-CCFE-PR(19)07
M. Carr A. Meakins S. Silburn J. Karhunen M. Bernert C. Bowman A. Callarelli P. Carvalho C. Giroud J. Harrison S. Henderson A. Huber B. Lipschultz T. Lunt D. Moulton F. Reimold ASDEX Upgrade team JET contributors MAST-Upgrade team the EUROfusion MST1 Team
Ray-tracing techniques are applied to divertor filtered imaging, a diagnostic that has long been plagued by polluting reflected light features in metal walled fusion machines. A physically realistic surface reflection model is developed from a Cook-Torrence microfacet BRDF model. Camera calibration images of in-vessel point lights at JET are use…
Preprint Published2020
UKAEA-CCFE-PR(19)03
B D Dudson J Allen T Body B Chapman C Lau L Townley D Moulton J Harrison B Lipschultz
A new 1D divertor plasma code, SD1D, has been used to examine the role of recombination, radiation, and momentum exchange in detachment. Neither momentum or power losses by themselves are found to be sufficient to produce target ion flux rollover in detachment; radiative power losses are required to a) limit and reduce the ionization source and …
Preprint Published2019
UKAEA-CCFE-PR(19)78
T. Farley N. R. Walkden F. Militello M. Sanna J. Young S. S. Silburn J. Harrison L. Kogan I. Lupelli S. S. Henderson A. Kirk J.W. Bradley
A new inversion technique is presented for the identification of plasma filaments in wide-angle visible camera data. Direct inversion of camera data onto a field aligned basis is a poorly conditioned problem which is overcome by breaking the analysis into a `psuedo-inversion’ step followed by a `point spread function correction’ step. Camera …
Preprint Published2019
UKAEA-CCFE-PR(19)47
C. Vincent W. McCarthy T. Golfinopoulos B. LaBombard R. Sharples J. Lovell G. Naylor S. Hall J. Harrison A.Q. Kuang
High bandwidth, high spatial resolution measurements of electron temperature, density and plasma potential are valuable for resolving turbulence in the boundary plasma of tokamaks. While conventional Langmuir probes can provide such measurements either their temporal or spatial resolution is limited: the former by the sweep rate necessary for obtai…
Preprint Published2018
UKAEA-CCFE-PR(18)82
James Harrison C. Theiler B. Lipschultz A. Perek R. Maurizio B. Linehan W. A. J. Vijvers B. P. Duval B. Labit U. Sheikh K. Verhaegh S. Henderson A. Karpushov O. Fevrier H. de Oliviera H. Reimerdes A. Merle X. Feng the TCV team and the EUROfusion MST1 team
Recent experiments on TCV have made significant progress toward partial detachment of the outer divertor in neutral beam heated H-mode plasmas. The heating power required to enter H-mode was measured in a range of divertor configurations, finding that, in the vicinity of the PL-H/ne curve, the threshold power is largely independent of the poloidal…
Preprint Published2018
UKAEA-CCFE-PR(18)36