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Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)2024

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The Fast Discharge Units (FDUs) of the Superconducting (SC) Toroidal Field (TF) coils in the European demonstration fusion power plant DEMO warrant the machine integrity over its full lifetime against severe failure events, such as SC coil quenches or any ...

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Operation of a tokamak device requires the coordinated operation of a multitude of systems. The sequence of operations during a discharge is both too complex and fast for human interaction. A common way of operation is a predefined sequence of operations w ...

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ELSEVIER SCI LTD2023

Parametric study of the TF coil design for the European DEMO

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In addition to a reduced number of feeders, which would simplify their integration in the cryostat of the tokamak, the present study considers the possibility to reduce the voltage during safety discharge of the toroidal field (TF) coils. A lowered dischar ...

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Progress on the Design of the 15 T Magnet of the EDIPO Test Facility

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EDIPO 2 (the upgraded EDIPO test facility) will provide a unique testbed for superconducting cables for fusion magnets,accelerators, and other applications. Compared to the previous magnet assembly, the magnetic field is enhanced from 12.35 T to 15 T, the ...

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Cold Atmospheric Plasma Inactivation of Microbial Spores Compared on Reference Surfaces and Powder Particles

Alan Howling, David Martinet

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Design of a Throttled Surge Tank for Refurbishment by Increase of Installed Capacity at a High-Head Power Plant

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Modelling of JET hybrid plasmas with emphasis on performance of combined ICRF and NBI heating

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IOP Publishing Ltd2018

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Giovanni De Cesare, Anton Schleiss, Azin Amini, Claudia Ylla Arbos, Ivan Stojnic

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Microfabrication of curved sidewall grooves using scanning nanosecond excimer laser ablation

Patrik Willi Hoffmann, André Gabriel Kostro, Josef Andreas Schuler, Georgios Violakis, Jing Gong

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SPIE2018

Reestablishment of a uniform discharge on the Olympic fountain in Lausanne

Giovanni De Cesare, Anton Schleiss, Elena Battisacco

Since its inauguration, in 1993, the horizontal weir crest of the Olympic fountain in Lausanne has suffered from differential settlings leading to a difference in level of more than 30 mm. The settling involves a visible non-uniform discharge distribution ...

Taylor & Francis Ltd2017

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Highly-sensitive distributed birefringence measurements based on a two-pulse interrogation of a dynamic Brillouin grating

Luc Thévenaz, Marcelo Alfonso Soto Hernandez, Andrey Denisov

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Ieee2017

Effects of Lateral and Vertical Constrictions on Flow in Rough Steep Channels with Bedload

Anton Schleiss, Mário Jorge Rodrigues Pereira Da Franca, Sebastian Schwindt

Two-phase flows occurring at flow constrictions such as bridges or open sediment check dams are complex, especially for steep rivers with bedload transport. Dangerous bedload deposition and backwater effects may occur in steep mountain rivers at bridges. I ...

Asce-Amer Soc Civil Engineers2017

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS OF THE HYDROMORPHOLOGICAL INDEX OF DIVERSITY USING NUMERICAL GENERATED DATA

Anton Schleiss, Christopher Robinson, Pierre Bourqui, Severin Stähly

River restoration has become a priority goal in many countries. The interest in rivers as valuable habitats for floral and faunal diversity and as an ecosystem with important functions has increased. For evaluating the structural changes from a river resto ...

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Direct unwrapped phase estimation in phase shifting interferometry using Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm

Pramod Rastogi, Rishikesh Dilip Kulkarni

An algorithm for the direct unwrapped phase estimation from the linearly phase shifted interferograms is presented. The temporal fringe intensity along each pixel is represented as a function of fringe amplitude, phase step and the searched phase. These pa ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2017