The snowflake (SF) magnetic configuration is investigated as a potential power exhaust solution for a fusion reactor, but also to improve our understanding of divertor physics in general. Unlike a conventional single null (SN), it features an additional ne ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2018

Poloidal asymmetry in the narrow heat flux feature in the TCV scrape-off layer

Basil Duval, Ivo Furno, Holger Reimerdes, Stefano Coda, Jan Horacek, Benoît Labit, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Paolo Ricci, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Federico David Halpern, Federico Nespoli, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui

Heat flux profiles inferred from a reciprocating probe at the outer midplane of the TCV tokamak during inner wall limited discharges feature radial fall-off lengths that shorten near the last closed flux surface (LCFS) consistent with the so-called narrow ...

American Institute of Physics (AIP)2017

Blob properties in full-turbulence simulations of the TCV scrape-off layer

Ivo Furno, Benoît Labit, Paolo Ricci, Fabio Riva, Federico David Halpern, Fabio Avino, Federico Nespoli

To investigate blob properties in the tokamak scrape-off layer (SOL), we perform dedicated numerical nonlinear simulations of plasma turbulence in the SOL of a TCV discharge using the Global Braginskii Solver code. A blob detection technique is used for th ...

2017

Spectroscopic investigations of divertor detachment in TCV

Basil Duval, Holger Reimerdes, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Wouter Vijvers, Claudio Marini, Federico Nespoli, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Umar Sheikh, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh, Nicola Vianello, Roberto Maurizio

The aim of this work is to provide an understanding of detachment at TCV with emphasis on analysis of the Balmer line emission. A new Divertor Spectroscopy System has been developed for this purpose. Further development of Balmer line analysis techniques h ...

Elsevier2017

Exploring drift effects in TCV single-null plasmas with the UEDGE code

Holger Reimerdes, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Roberto Maurizio

This paper explores the effects of particle drifts across the magnetic field in TCV single-null plasmas using the two-dimensional edge plasma transport code UEDGE. In particular, it aims to reproduce a double-peaked density target profile, a feature which ...

Institute of Physics2017

Overview of progress in European medium sized tokamaks towards an integrated plasma-edge/wall solution

Patrick Blanchard, Roland Behn, Basil Duval, Timothy Goodman, Yves Martin, Jean-Marc Moret, Richard Pitts, Olivier Sauter, Holger Reimerdes, Stefano Coda, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Alexander Karpushov, Laurie Porte, Yanis Andrebe, Yann Camenen, Thomas Binderup Jensen, Duccio Testa, Benoît Labit, Emiliano Fable, Javier García Hernández, Ben McMillan, Marc Gruber, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Dávid Wágner, Attila Bencze, Doohyun Kim, Wouter Vijvers, Hoang Bao Le, Zhouji Huang, Himank Anand, Claudio Marini, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Federico Nespoli, Heinz Mueller, Anna Teplukhina, Joan Decker, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Umar Sheikh, Cristian Galperti, , , , , , , , ,

Results from recent detachment experiments in alternative divertor configurations on TCV

Holger Reimerdes, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Wouter Vijvers, Federico Nespoli, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Umar Sheikh, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh, Nicola Vianello, Roberto Maurizio

Divertor detachment is explored on the TCV tokamak in alternative magnetic geometries. Starting from typical TCV single-null shapes, the poloidal flux expansion at the outer strikepoint is varied by a factor of 10 to investigate the X-divertor characterist ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2017

Non-linear simulations of the TCV Scrape-Off Layer

Ivo Furno, Benoît Labit, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Paolo Ricci, Fabio Riva, Federico David Halpern, Federico Nespoli

To investigate the mechanisms leading to the heat deposition onto the first wall in the Scrape-Off Layer (SOL), we perform dedicated numerical non-linear simulations of the SOL plasma dynamics of a TCV discharge using the GBS code. The simulated parallel h ...

Elsevier Science Bv2017

Effect of plasma geometry on divertor heat flux spreading: MONALISA simulations and experimental results from TCV

Holger Reimerdes, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Federico Nespoli, Roberto Maurizio

Safe ITER operations will rely on power spreading to keep the peak heat flux within divertor material constraints. A solid understanding and parameterization of heat flux profiles is therefore mandatory. This paper focuses on the impact of plasma geometry ...

Elsevier2017

TCV divertor upgrade for alternative magnetic configurations

Patrick Blanchard, Stefano Alberti, René Chavan, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Yves Martin, Jean-Marc Moret, Holger Reimerdes, Stefano Coda, Pierluigi Bruzzone, Marco Wischmeier, Duccio Testa, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Matthieu Toussaint, Davide Uglietti, Umar Sheikh, Nicola Vianello

The Swiss Plasma Center (SPC) is planning a divertor upgrade for the TCV tokamak. The upgrade aims at extending the research of conventional and alternative divertor configurations to operational scenarios and divertor regimes of greater relevance for a fu ...

Elsevier2017

Detachment evolution on the TCV tokamak

Basil Duval, Holger Reimerdes, Marco Wischmeier, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Wouter Vijvers, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Umar Sheikh, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh

Divertor detachment in the TCV tokamak has been investigated through experiments and modelling. Density ramp experiments were carried out in ohmic heated L-mode pulses with the ion del B drift directed away from the primary X-point, similar to previous stu ...

Elsevier2017

Experimental Studies of the Snowflake Divertor in TCV

Basil Duval, Holger Reimerdes, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Wouter Vijvers, Federico Nespoli, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Umar Sheikh, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh

To address the risk that, in a fusion reactor, the conventional single-null divertor (SND) configuration may not be able to handle the power exhaust, alternative divertor configurations, such as the Snowflake divertor (SFD), are investigated in TCV. The ex ...

Elsevier Science Bv2017

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Pedro Andres Molina Cabrera

Matteo Fontana

Umar Sheikh

Cristian Galperti

Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh

Fusion power may be seen as the energy of the future in the sense that it composes a potentially clean, cheap and unlimited power source that would reduce the worldwide dependency on non-renewable energies. Nevertheless, while nowadays the fusion reaction ...

IEEE2018

Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh

Nicola Vianello

Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo

Integrating the plasma core performance with an edge and scrape-off layer (SOL) that leads to tolerable heat and particle loads on the wall is a major challenge. The new European medium size tokamak task force (EU-MST) coordinates research on ASDEX Upgrade ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2017