Signal processing techniques based on singular value decomposition applied to modulated ECH experiments

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The recent decision by ITER to move from a Be to a W first wall has significant implications for material transport and deposition, and can be expected to lead to increased W layer growth rate in deposition regions, which may flake leading to plasma disruption. In this work a novel sputtering set-up was implemented in the Magnum-PSI linear plasma device to create W layers under ITER relevant conditions. A W plate was inserted into the plasma edge and biased to cause sputtering of W in an Ar plasma. This spu

Plasma state reconstruction methods combining measurements and physics modeling improve the estimation of physics quantities in real-time and in post-discharge analysis. We present a workflow to reconstruct the dynamic evolution of a set of internal tokamak plasma profiles with consistent equilibria, as applied in this paper for experimental data from TCV L and H-mode discharges. Plasma profile estimates for electron temperature Te, electron density ne and parallel current density jpar are obtained by data

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Recent results from the ASDEX Upgrade experimental campaigns 2001 and 2002 are presented. An improved understanding of energy and particle transport emerges in terms of a 'critical gradient' model for the temperature gradients. Coupling this to particle diffusion explains most of the observed behaviour of the density profiles, in particular, the finding that strong central heating reduces the tendency for density profile peaking. Internal transport barriers (ITBs) with electron and ion temperatures in exces

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This work deals with the modelling of electrochemical reactors with bipolar electrodes. We give a numerical model which enables us to compute electrical current and potential distributions in an electrochemical cell of any type of geometry in two and three dimensions, including electrodes at an unknown floating potential. We first present electrochemical reactors and particularly insist on kinetics and thermodynamics phenomena responsible on potential discontinuities at electrodes-electrolyte interfaces. Se

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Signal processing techniques based on singular value decomposition applied to modulated ECH experiments

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