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The physics of the heat flux narrow decay length in the TCV scrape-off layer: experiments and simulations

Richard Pitts, Ivo Furno, Jan Horacek, Benoît Labit, Paolo Ricci, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Federico David Halpern, Federico Nespoli, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui

2016

Physics of the conceptual design of the ITER plasma control system

Jonathan Bryan Lister, Richard Pitts

The ITER plasma control system (PCS) will play a central role in enabling the experimental program to attempt to sustain DT plasmas with Q = 10 for several hundred seconds and also support research toward the development of steady-state operation in ITER. ...

Elsevier Science Sa2014

Benchmark Of Fluid And Kinetic Simulations Of Type Iii Elming H-Mode On Tcv

Richard Pitts, Barbora Bruant Gulejová

Although the most complex currently available fluid-neutral Monte-Carlo plasma boundary code package, SOLPS, has been a major player in the ITER divertor design, it has not yet been systematically used for the study of kinetic phenomena such as ELM transie ...

2011

ELM induced divertor heat loads on TCV

Richard Pitts, Jan Horacek, János Márki

Results are presented for heat loads at the TCV outer divertor target during ELMing H-mode using a fast IR camera. Benefitting from a recent surface cleaning of the entire first wall graphite armour, a comparison of the transient thermal response of freshl ...

Elsevier2009

SOLPS5 simulations of Type I ELMing H-mode at JET

Richard Pitts, Barbora Bruant Gulejová

This paper aims to contribute both to the ongoing process of scrape-off layer code-experiment and code-code benchmarking. Results are presented from SOLPS5 simulations of two high power JET H-modes with similar magnetic configuration, concentrating in the ...

Elsevier2009

Kinetic simulations of the parallel transport in the JET scrape-off layer

Richard Pitts

in this paper, we present kinetic simulation results of plasma parallel transport in the stationary and ELMy scrape-off (SOL) layer. We demonstrate that number of kinetic factors describing SOL are strongly nonuniform and evolve during the ELM. Power loads ...

Elsevier2009

Numerical modelling of high density JET divertor plasma with the SOLPS4.2 (B2-EIRENE) code

Richard Pitts

2008

Spontaneous L-mode plasma rotation scaling in the TCV tokamak

Basil Duval, Richard Pitts, Antoine Pochelon, Olivier Sauter, Andrea Scarabosio, Alexander Karpushov, Alessandro Bortolon

2008

Progress in edge plasma transport modeling on JET

Richard Pitts, Barbora Bruant Gulejová

2008

ELMs and strike point movements

Richard Pitts

IOP Publishing Ltd2008

Substrate-dependent deposition efficiency on mirrors exposed in the TCV divertor

Richard Pitts

2008

Modelling of carbon migration during JET C-13 injection experiments

Richard Pitts

IOP Publishing Ltd2008

Snowflake Divertor Plasmas on TCV

Basil Duval, Jean-Marc Moret, Richard Pitts, Antoine Pochelon, Olivier Sauter, Ivo Furno, Stefano Coda, Costanza Zucca, Francesco Piras, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Attila Bencze

Starting from a standard single null X-point configuration, a second order null divertor (snowflake (SF)) has been successfully created on the Tokamak à Configuration Variable (TCV) tokamak. The magnetic properties of this innovative configuration have bee ...

PPCF2008

On kinetic effects during parallel transport in the SOL

Richard Pitts

2008

Pedestal and ELM response to impurity seeding in JET advanced scenario plasmas

Gilles Arnoux, Richard Pitts

IOP Publishing Ltd2008

ELM transport in the JET scrape-off layer

Gilles Arnoux, Richard Pitts

This contribution summarizes a number of aspects of the experimental and modelling programme at JET aimed at improving the characterization and understanding of edge localized mode (ELM) transport in the scrape-off layer (SOL). Divertor target energy depos ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2007

Parallel SOL flow on TCV

Richard Pitts, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek

Particle flow measurements parallel to the total magnetic field direction have been obtained for the first time in the TCV tokamak scrape-off layer. The plasma shape flexibility of TCV, coupled with carefully matched ohmic diverted discharges in forward an ...

2007

Bulk Plasma Rotation in the TCV Tokamak in the Absence of External Momentum Input (Invited paper)

Basil Duval, Richard Pitts, Antoine Pochelon, Andrea Scarabosio, Alexander Karpushov, Alessandro Bortolon

2007

Divertor power deposition and target current asymmetries during type-1 ELMS in ASDEX Upgrade and JET

Richard Pitts

Analysis of the type-l ELM power load asymmetries using infra-red thermography and target current measurements is performed ASDEX Upgrade Upper Single Null and JET DOC-L type-I ELMy H-Mode discharges with 'normal' and,reversed' field direction, i.e. with t ...

2007

Plasma-wall heat loads in ITER-like advanced Tokamak scenarios on JET

Gilles Arnoux, Richard Pitts

2007

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