UKAEA Journals

S.Pamela G.Huijsmans A.J.Thornton A.Kirk S.F.Smith M.Hoelzl T.Eich JET Contributors the MAST Team the JOREK Team

Typically applied to non-linear simulations of MHD instabilities relevant to magnetically confined fusion, the JOREK code was originally developed with a 2D grid composed of isoparametric bi-cubic Bezier finite elements, that are aligned to the magnetic equilibrium of tokamak plasmas. To improve the applicability of these simulations, the grid-gene…

DF Dance MFA Harrison ACH Smith

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…

Albert D. Smith Jack M. Donoghue Alistair J.W. Garner David Lunt Allan Harte Keith Wilford Philip J. Withers Michael Preuss

Proton irradiation is often used as a proxy for neutron irradiation but the irradiated layer is typically

S. Buller A. Mollén S.L. Newton H.M. Smith I. Pusztai

In toroidal magnetic confinement devices, such as tokamaks and stellarators, neoclassical transport is usually an order of magnitude larger than its classical counterpart. However, when a high-collisionality species is present in an stellarator optimized for low Pfirsch-Schlüter current, its classical transport can be comparable to the neoclassica…

A. Hollingsworth M. Yu. Lavrentiev R. Watkins A. Davies S. Davies R. Smith D. R. Mason A. Baron-Wiechec Z. Kollo J. Hess I. Jepu K. Heinola J. Likonen K. Mizohata E. Meslin M.-F. Barthe A. Widdowson I. S. Grech K. Abraham A. McShee Y. Martynova M. Freisinger A. De Backer

A new facility to study the interaction of hydrogen isotopes with nuclear fusion relevant first wall materials, its retention and release, has been produced. The new facility allows implanting a range of gases into samples, including tritium. Accurate study of isotope effects, such as the isotopic exchange in damaged microstructure, has previously …

S. Buller H.M. Smith A. Mollen S.L. Newton I. Pusztai

Avoiding impurity accumulation is a requirement for steady-state stellarator operation. The accumulation of impurities can be heavily affected by variations in their density on the flux-surface. Using recently derived semi-analytic expressions for the transport of a collisional impurity species with high-Z and flux-surface density-variation in t…

yiqiang wang S. Kabra S. Y. Zhang C. E. Truman D. J. Smith

A long-term high-temperature testing stress rig has been designed and fabricated for performing in situ neutron diffraction tests at the ENGIN-X beamline, ISIS facility in the UK. It is capable of subjecting metals to high temperatures up to 800°C and uniaxial loading under different boundary conditions including constant load, constant s…

S. Buller H.M. Smith P. Helander A. Mollén S.L. Newton I. Pusztai

High-Z impurities in magnetic confinement devices are prone to develop density variations on the fluux-surface, which can significantly affect their transport. In this paper, we generalize earlier analytic stellarator calculations of the neoclassical radial impurity flux in the mixed-collisionality regime (collisional impurity and low-collisionalit…

Y. 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 …