UKAEA Journals

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2020
UKAEA-CCFE-PR(20)137
"A novel hydrogenic spectroscopic technique for inferring the role of plasma-molecule interaction on power and particle balance during detached conditions"

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…

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2019
UKAEA-CCFE-PR(20)09
"Inference of divertor plasma characteristics using Bayesian multi-diagnostic analysis"

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…

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2019
UKAEA-CCFE-PR(20)07
"Simulations of edge localised mode instabilities in MAST-U Super-X tokamak plasmas"

S.F. Smith S.J.P. Pamela A. Fil M. Hoelzl G.T.A. Huijsmans A. Kirk D. Moulton O. Myatra A.J. Thornton H.R. Wilson

ELM simulations for the MAST-U Super-X tokamak have been obtained, using the JOREK code. The JOREK visco-resistive MHD model has been used to obtain comparisons of divertor configurations. The simulations show a factor 10 decrease in the peak heat flux to the outer target of the Super-X in comparison to a conventional divertor configuration. A roll…

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2019
UKAEA-CCFE-PR(19)55
"On the effect of total flux expansion in TCV detachment and its modeling with SOLPS-ITER"

A. Fil D. Moulton B. Dudson B. Lipschultz K. Verhaegh O. Février O. Myatra C. Theiler M. Wensing EUROfusion MST1 teams the TCV team

In ITER and DEMO, achieving detachment at lower densities would allow to reduce the amount of impurity seeded and to improve confinement by running at lower separatrix densities. Analytic models predict that a increase of total flux expansion would allow such a reduction in upstream density at detachment. However, both experiments and modelling …

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