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Spectroscopic investigations of divertor detachment in TCV

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

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

New insights on divertor parallel flows,E x B drifts, and fluctuations from in situ, two-dimensional probe measurement in the Tokamak a Configuration Variable

Basil Duval, Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Artur Perek, Hugo De Oliveira, Sophie Danielle Angelica Gorno

In situ, two-dimensional (2D) Langmuir probe measurements across a large part of the TCV outer divertor are reported in L-mode discharges with and without divertor baffles. This provides detailed insights into time averaged profiles, particle fluxes, and f ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

Improved confinement in high-density H-modes via modification of the plasma boundary with lower hybrid waves

Christian Gabriel Theiler, Yu Lin, Peng Xu

Injecting Lower Hybrid Range of Frequency (LHRF) waves into Alcator C-Mod's high-density H-mode plasmas has led to enhanced global energy confinement by increasing pedestal temperature and pressure gradients, decreasing the separatrix density, modifying th ...

Amer Inst Physics2015

Impact of the plasma geometry on divertor power exhaust: experimental evidence from TCV and simulations with SolEdge2D and TOKAM3X

Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Davide Galassi, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Roberto Maurizio

A deep understanding of plasma transport at the edge of magnetically confined fusion plasmas is needed for the handling and control of heat loads on the machine first wall. Experimental observations collected on a number of tokamaks over the last three dec ...

2018

Approaching the investigation of plasma turbulence through a rigorous verification and validation procedure: A practical examplea)

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Paolo Ricci, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Federico David Halpern, Fabio Riva

In the present work, a Verification and Validation procedure is presented and applied showing, through a practical example, how it can contribute to advancing our physics understanding of plasma turbulence. Bridging the gap between plasma physics and other ...

American Institute of Physics (AIP)2015

Numerical investigation of optimal divertor gas baffle closure on TCV

Stefano Coda, Benoît Labit, Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Mirko Wensing, Davide Galassi

A first set of divertor gas baffles has recently been installed in the TCV tokamak. In order to explore the physics determining the benefits and limitations of divertor baffling and to guide the design of a possible second generation of baffles, the effect ...

2020

Access to an ELM-suppressed X-point radiator regime in TCV snowflake minus configurations

Yinghan Wang, Basil Duval, Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Olivier Claude Martin Février, Guang-Yu Sun, Artur Perek, Curdin Tobias Wüthrich, Sophie Danielle Angelica Gorno, Luke Simons, Martim Zurita, Daniele Hamm, Ming Yin Kenneth Lee

TCV’s operating regime with an X-point radiator (XPR) has been broadened by changing the magnetic geometry. XPRs have properties that could make them an attractive power exhaust solution for fusion reactors. These include the conversion of a high fraction ...

Elsevier2024

Development of a real-time algorithm for detection of the divertor detachment radiation front using multi-spectral imaging

Christian Gabriel Theiler, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh, Wouter Vijvers, Artur Perek

In this paper we present a novel algorithm to extract the optical plasma boundary and radiation front for detached divertor plasmas. We show that reliable detection of the divertor leg and radiation front is possible using lightweight image processing tool ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2020

Investigating the impact of the molecular charge-exchange rate on detached SOLPS-ITER simulations

Basil Duval, Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh

Plasma-molecular interactions generate molecular ions which react with the plasma and contribute to detachment through molecular activated recombination (MAR), reducing the ion target flux, and molecular activated dissociation (MAD), both of which create e ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

Overview of the EUROfusion Tokamak Exploitation programme in support of ITER and DEMO

Pacôme Henryk Cécil Devleeshouver, Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Basil Duval, Henri Weisen, Timothy Goodman, Duccio Testa, Jean-Marc Moret, Patrick Blanchard, Benoît Labit, Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Alexander Karpushov, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Umar Sheikh, Simon Van Mulders, Alessandro Pau, Cristian Galperti, Joan Decker, Marcelo Baquero Ruiz, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Mengdi Kong, Matteo Vallar, Olivier Claude Martin Février, Davide Galassi, Guang-Yu Sun, Filippo Bagnato, Paulo Giovane Paschoali Pereira Puglia, Artur Perek, Claudia Colandrea, Sophie Danielle Angelica Gorno, Nicola Offeddu, Luke Simons, Aylwin Iantchenko, Lorenzo Martinelli, Oleg Krutkin, Dmytry Mykytchuk, Jesús Poley Sanjuán, Carl Mathias Paul Hoppe, Benjamin Alexandre Vincent, Umesh Kumar, Garance Hélène Salomé Durr-Legoupil-Nicoud, Massimo Carpita, Jean Arthur Cazabonne, Davide Mancini, Cassandre Ekta Contré, Stefano Marchioni, Samuele Mazzi, Gino Marceca, Renat Karimov, Elena Tonello, Yoeri Renier Johannes Poels, Michele Marin, Martim Zurita, Alessandro Balestri, Anton Jansen Van Vuuren, Francesco Pastore, Mackenzie Peter-Fulford Van Rossem, Emanuel Paul Huett, Nam Axel David Vu, Hari Raj, Antonia Frank, Aleksandr Listopad

Within the 9th European Framework programme, since 2021 EUROfusion is operating five tokamaks under the auspices of a single Task Force called ‘Tokamak Exploitation’. The goal is to benefit from the complementary capabilities of each machine in a coordinat ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2024

Thermal, electromagnetic and structural analysis of gas baffles for the TCV divertor upgrade

Dario Vaccaro, Basil Duval, Jean-Marc Moret, Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Matthieu Toussaint

As part of an ongoing divertor upgrade of the TCV tokamak it is planned to add gas baffles to form a divertor chamber of variable closure. The baffles promise to increase the compression of neutral particles in the divertor and, thereby, extend the researc ...

Elsevier2019

Results from recent detachment experiments in alternative divertor configurations on TCV

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

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

Basil Duval, Benoît Labit, Holger Reimerdes, 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

Improved heat and particle flux mitigation in high core confinement, baffled, alternative divertor configurations in the TCV tokamak

Basil Duval, Patrick Blanchard, Benoît Labit, Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Umar Sheikh, Artur Perek, Matteo Vallar, Hugo De Oliveira, Filippo Bagnato, Sophie Danielle Angelica Gorno, Claudia Colandrea, Harshita Raj

Nitrogen seeded detachment has been achieved in the tokamak a configuration variable (TCV) in alternative divertor configurations (ADCs), namely X-divertor and X-point target, with and without baffles in H-mode plasmas with high core confinement. Both ADCs ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

Numerical study of divertor detachment in TCV H-mode scenarios

Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Davide Galassi, Filippo Bagnato, Sophie Danielle Angelica Gorno

The effect of divertor closure and nitrogen seeding on the detachment process has been studied by performing 2D numerical simulations of tokamak a configuration variable (TCV) H-mode divertor scenarios with the SOLEDGE3X-EIRENE edge plasma transport code. ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2023

SOLPS-ITER simulations of the TCV divertor upgrade

Basil Duval, Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Artur Perek, Marco Wischmeier, Davide Galassi, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh, Mirko Wensing

The effect of the upcoming TCV divertor upgrade on the distribution of neutrals and the onset of detachment is studied using 2D transport code simulations. The divertor upgrade is centered around the installation of a gas baffle to form a divertor chamber ...

2019

A locked mode indicator for disruption prediction on JET and ASDEX upgrade

Jérémie Gérard Laurent, Olivier Sauter, Ambrogio Fasoli, Henri Weisen, Richard Pitts, Jonathan Graves, Stefano Coda, Basil Duval, Timothy Goodman, Yves Martin, Yann Camenen, Jan Horacek, Javier García Hernández, Marco Wischmeier, Jean-Marc Moret, Mikhail Maslov, Patrick Blanchard, Alessandro Pau, David Pfefferlé, Davide Galassi, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Roland Behn, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin, Liang Yao, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Cristian Sommariva, Benoît Labit, Hamish William Patten, Samuel Lanthaler, Holger Reimerdes, Laurie Porte, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Alberto Bottino, Marc Gruber, Alexander Karpushov, Emiliano Fable, Ben McMillan, Andrea Scarabosio, Federico Nespoli, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Umar Sheikh, Wouter Vijvers, Matteo Fontana, Yanis Andrebe, Cristian Galperti, Haomin Sun, Joan Decker, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Doohyun Kim, Nicola Vianello, Pedro Andres Molina Cabrera, Anna Teplukhina, Thomas Binderup Jensen, Zhouji Huang, Jose Vicente Sanchez Mut, Attila Bencze, Dávid Wágner, Claudio Marini, Himank Anand, Dahye Choi, Hoang Bao Le, Miguel Filipe Silva Füglister, Anton Malygin, Mélanie Preynas, Mateusz Gospodarczyk

The aim of this paper is to present a signal processing algorithm that, applied to the raw Locked Mode signal, allows us to obtain a disruption indicator in principle exploitable on different tokamaks. A common definition of such an indicator for different ...

2019

Plasma turbulence, suprathermal ion dynamics and code validation on the basic plasma physics device TORPEX

Ambrogio Fasoli, Ivo Furno, Paolo Ricci, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Mario Ludovico Podesta, Fabio Avino, Francesca Maria Poli, Gennady Plyushchev, Kyle Gustafson, Alexandre Dominique Bovet, Davoud Iraji

The TORPEX basic plasma physics device at the Center for Plasma Physics Research (CRPP) in Lausanne, Switzerland is described. In TORPEX, simple magnetized toroidal configurations, a paradigm for the tokamak scrape-off layer (SOL), as well as more complex ...

Cambridge University Press2015

Evidence on the effects of main-chamber neutrals on density shoulder broadening

Basil Duval, Nicola Vianello, Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Umar Sheikh, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Mirko Wensing, Marcelo Baquero Ruiz, Artur Perek, Sophie Danielle Angelica Gorno

Evidence that density shoulder broadening is dependent on high main-chamber neutral density is presented. Shoulder broadening does notoccur when the sources for main-chamber neutrals are minimized using divertor baffles and wide gaps to the first wall (sim ...

2022

Validation of edge turbulence codes against the TCV-X21 diverted L-mode reference case

Nicola Vianello, Davide Galassi, Paolo Ricci, Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Hugo De Oliveira, Maurizio Giacomin, Sophie Danielle Angelica Gorno, Claudia Colandrea, Nicola Offeddu

Self-consistent full-size turbulent-transport simulations of the divertor and scrape-off-layer (SOL) of existing tokamaks have recently become feasible. This enables the direct comparison of turbulence simulations against experimental measurements. In this ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022