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SOLPS-ITER validation with TCV L-mode discharges

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Holger Reimerdes, Marco Wischmeier, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Hugo De Oliveira, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh, Marcelo Baquero Ruiz, Mirko Wensing, Filippo Bagnato, Lorenzo Martinelli, Sophie Danielle Angelica Gorno, Claudia Colandrea, Artur Perek

This work presents a quantitative test of SOLPS-ITER simulations against tokamak a configuration variable (TCV) L-mode experiments. These simulations account for drifts, currents, kinetic neutrals, and carbon impurities providing the most complete edge tra ...

2021

Detachment in conventional and advanced double-null plasmas in TCV

Basil Duval, Holger Reimerdes, Stefano Coda, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler

Divertor detachment is investigated on the Tokamak a Configuration Variable (TCV) for conventional and alternative double-null (DN) magnetic geometries in L-mode, Ohmic density ramps and then compared to precisely matched single-null (SN) geometries. The p ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2021

A novel hydrogenic spectroscopic technique for inferring the role of plasma-molecule interaction on power and particle balance during detached conditions

Basil Duval, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh, Mirko Wensing, Artur Perek

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 pre ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2021

Tomographic reconstruction of the runaway distribution function in TCV using multispectral synchrotron images

Basil Duval, Joan Decker, Umar Sheikh, Gergely Papp, Artur Perek

Synchrotron radiation observed in a quiescent Tokamak a Configuration Variable (TCV) runaway discharge is studied using filtered camera images targeting three distinct wavelength intervals. Through the tomographic simultaneous algebraic reconstruction tech ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2021

The role of plasma-molecule interactions on power and particle balance during detachment on the TCV tokamak

Basil Duval, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh, Mirko Wensing, Artur Perek

This paper shows experimental results from the TCV tokamak that indicate plasma-molecule interactions involving D2+

IOP Publishing Ltd2021

Impact of the new TCV baffled divertor upgrade on pedestal structure and performance

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Holger Reimerdes, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Umar Sheikh, Davide Galassi

A new set of carbon tiles, neutral beam heating optics and gas baffles were installed on TCV during thebaffled divertor upgrade in early 2019. The installation of the baffles allows a deconvolution of the roles ofmain chamber and divertor neutral pressure ...

Elsevier2021

Development of an 11-channel multi wavelength imaging diagnostic for divertor plasmas in MAST Upgrade

Basil Duval, Yanis Andrebe, Wouter Vijvers, Artur Perek

Divertor detachment and alternative divertor magnetic geometries are predicted to be promising approaches to handle the power exhaust of future fusion devices. In order to understand the detachment process caused by volumetric losses in alternative diverto ...

2021

Real-time feedback control of the impurity emission front in tokamak divertor plasmas

Basil Duval, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Cristian Galperti, Artur Perek

In magnetic confinement thermonuclear fusion the exhaust of heat and particles from the core remains a major challenge. Heat and particles leaving the core are transported via open magnetic field lines to a region of the reactor wall, called the divertor. ...

Nature Research2021

Divertor closure effects on the TCV boundary plasma

Basil Duval, Holger Reimerdes, Benoît Labit, Sri Harsha Kasi Raj, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Umar Sheikh, Lorenzo Martinelli, Claudia Colandrea

The Tokamak a Configuration Variable (TCV) has recently been equipped with gas baffles to increase its divertor closure for a broad range of divertor magnetic geometries. First experimental results reported in Reimerdes et al. (2021) demonstrated compatibi ...

Elsevier2021

H-mode scrape-off layer power width in the TCV tokamak

Basil Duval, Holger Reimerdes, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Umar Sheikh, Roberto Maurizio

Obtaining acceptable conditions at the divertor targets of a next-step fusion experiment based on the tokamak concept is expected to be particularly challenging because of the small predicted value of the plasma power exhaust channel width. An increased co ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2021

Runaway electron synchrotron radiation in a vertically translated plasma

Basil Duval, Joan Decker, Umar Sheikh, Gergely Papp, Artur Perek

Synchrotron radiation observed from runaway electrons (REs) in tokamaks depends upon the position and size of the RE beam, the RE energy and pitch distributions, as well as the location of the observer. We show experimental synchrotron images of a vertical ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2020

Experimental verification of X-point potential well formation in unfavorable magnetic field direction

Basil Duval, Holger Reimerdes, Marco Wischmeier, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Hugo De Oliveira, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Mirko Wensing, Sophie Danielle Angelica Gorno, Claudia Colandrea

Recent TCV experiments confirm the predicted formation of an electric potential well, below the magnetic X-point, in configurations with unfavorable

B_t

field direction (ion

\nabla B

drift away from the divertor), that substantially reshapes the typica ...

Elsevier2020

TCV heating and divertor upgrades

Stefano Alberti, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Jean-Marc Moret, Holger Reimerdes, Alexander Karpushov, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Matthieu Toussaint, Marcelo Baquero Ruiz, Dario Vaccaro

The operational range and the reactor relevance of the TCV experiments are being enhanced by two sets of major upgrades. The first includes the installation of neutral beam injection (NBI) and new electron cyclotron (EC) auxiliary heating sources, to reach ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2020

X-point potential well formation in diverted tokamaks with unfavorable magnetic field direction

Basil Duval, Holger Reimerdes, Marco Wischmeier, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Mirko Wensing

Fluid simulations of the boundary of fusion plasmas predict the formation of an electric potential well in the vicinity of the X-point in detached divertor conditions with Bt in the unfavorable direction for H-mode access. This potential well arises when t ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2020

Nitrogen-seeded divertor detachment in TCV L-mode plasmas

Basil Duval, Holger Reimerdes, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Hugo De Oliveira, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh, Roberto Maurizio

Most of the detachment experiments done to date on the tokamak a configuration variable (TCV), both in standard and alternative divertor geometries, focused on L-mode integrated core density ramps. In view of extending these studies to high-power, high-con ...

2020

Comparison of high density and nitrogen seeded detachment using SOLPS-ITER simulations of the tokamak a configuration variable

Basil Duval, Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Hugo De Oliveira, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh, Mirko Wensing, Lorenzo Martinelli

First of a kind SOLPS-ITER simulations on tokamak a configuration variable (TCV) that include nitrogen have been performed to model recent nitrogen seeded detachment experiments. Based on spectroscopic measurements, a nitrogen recycling coefficient R-p(N) ...

2020

Disruption mitigation efficiency and scaling with thermal energy fraction on ASDEX Upgrade

Basil Duval, Umar Sheikh, Gergely Papp

Disruption mitigation remains a critical and unresolved issue for ITER. Measurement uncertainties preventing quantification of a system's efficacy remains a significant hurdle in producing and validating a viable disruption mitigation system. This study ad ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2020

Beam duct for the 1 MW neutral beam injector on TCV

Basil Duval, Yves Martin, Stefano Coda, Alexander Karpushov, Frédéric Dolizy, Matthieu Toussaint, Roberto Maurizio

The 1MW power of the neutral beam injector (NBI) enters the plasma of the Tokamak a Configuration Variable (TCV) through a duct. The original beam propagation model predicted a maximal heat flux on the internal faces of the duct below 350 kW/m(2), leading ...

2020

Determination of tungsten sources in the JET-ILW divertor by spectroscopic imaging in the presence of a strong plasma continuum

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Yves Martin, Richard Pitts, Olivier Sauter, Henri Weisen, Stefano Coda, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Graves, Duccio Testa, Mikhail Maslov, Javier García Hernández, David Pfefferlé, Jonnathan Cesar Hidalgo Acosta, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin, Federico Nespoli, Alberto Hernando de Castro, Hamish William Patten, Li Shuai, Nicola Vianello, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Samuel Lanthaler, Liang Yao, Cristian Sommariva, Davide Galassi, Alessandro Pau, Yao Zhou, Otto Asunta, Bernhard Sieglin

The identification of the sources of atomic tungsten and the measurement of their radiation distribution in front of all plasma-facing components has been performed in JET with the help of two digital cameras with the same two-dimensional view, equipped wi ...

Elsevier2019

Erosion, screening, and migration of tungsten in the JET divertor

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Yves Martin, Richard Pitts, Olivier Sauter, Henri Weisen, Stefano Coda, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Graves, Duccio Testa, Mikhail Maslov, Javier García Hernández, David Pfefferlé, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin, Federico Nespoli, Hamish William Patten, Nicola Vianello, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Samuel Lanthaler, Liang Yao, Cristian Sommariva, Davide Galassi, Alessandro Pau, Yao Zhou, Otto Asunta, Bernhard Sieglin

The erosion of tungsten (W), induced by the bombardment of plasma and impurity particles, determines the lifetime of plasma-facing components as well as impacting on plasma performance by the influx of W into the confined region. The screening of W by the ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2019

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