Physics research on the TCV tokamak facility: From conventional to alternative scenarios and beyond

The research program of the TCV tokamak ranges from conventional to advanced-tokamak scenarios and alternative divertor configurations, to exploratory plasmas driven by theoretical insight, exploiting the device's unique shaping capabilities. Disruption avoidance by real-time locked mode preven...

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Autores: Coda, S., Agostini, Matteo, Albanese, R., Alberti, S., Alessi, E., Allan, S., Allcock, J., Ambrosino, R., Anand, H., Andrebe, Y., Arnichand, H., Gahle, D. S., Galassi, D., Pericoli Ridolfini, V., Gallo, A., Salmi, A., Calacci, L., Zagorski, R., Linehan, B., Harrer, G. F., Boedo, J. A., Vianello, N., Lipschultz, B., Llobet, X., Wilkie, G., Voitsekhovitch, I., Carraro, L., Lombroni, R., Granucci, G., Loschiavo, V. P., Lunt, T., Weiland, M., Viezzer, Eleonora, Chmielewski, P., Ball, J., Giruzzi, G., Macusova, E., Madsen, J., Hesslow, L., Zebrowski, J., Garrido, A. J., Maljaars, E., Mantica, P., Happel, T., Wischmeier, M., Galperti, C., Puiatti, M. E., Maraschek, M., Weisen, H., Reimold, F., Marchetto, C., Vu, N. M. T., Rosato, J., Marco, A., Vijvers, W. A. J., Scheffer, M., Mariani, A., Schrittwieser, R., Marini, C., Martin, Y., Baquero Ruiz, M., Zisis, A., Hogeweij, D., Igochine, V., Kappatou, A., Kong, M., Matos, F., Maruzio, R., Mavkov, B., Sharapov, S. E., Schalatter, Ch., Saarelma, S., Reux, C., Pütterich, T., Mazon, D., McCarthy, P., Reimerdes, H., McDermott, R.M., Pucella, G., Menkovski, V., Hopf, C., Gruca, M., Merle, A., Buratti, P, Havlíčková, E., Meyer, H., Bouquey, F., Piergotti, V., Saelwski, M., Micheletti, D., Beletskii, A. A., Bufferand, H., Ricci, D., Garrido, I., Militello, F., Mitosinkova, K., Bonanomi, N., Rabinski, M., Ciraolo, G., Gobbin, M., Mlynář, J., Moiseenko, V., Wu, K., Molina Cabrera, P. A., Chellaï, Oulfa, Kazantzidis, P. V., Graves, J. P., Sheea, R. R., Pesamosca, F., Cordaro, L., Sheikh, U., Shousha, R., Goodman, T. P., Garavaglia, S., Kovacic, J., Silva, M., Offeddu, N., Sinha, J., Sozzi, C., Gath, J., Kwiatkowski, R., Hawke, J., Nespoli, F., Spolaore, M., Stipani, L., Poli, E., Gyergyek, T., Mumgaard, R. T., Bogar, O., Strand, P., Gorini, Giuseppe, Morales, J., Brida, D., Tala, T., Hubbard, A., Camenen, Y., Tema Biwole, A. S., García-Muñoz, M., Casolari, A., Teplukhina, A. A., Choi, D., Testa, D., Costea, S., Theiler, C., Thornton, A., Henderson, S., Iantchenko, A., Porte, L., Reich, M., Ricci, P., Tomaž, G., Tomes, M., Tran, M. Q., Cruz, N., Christen, N., Causa, F., Carnevale, D., Bucalossi, J., Bolzonella, T., Tsironis, C., Tsui, C. K., Bowman, C., Urban, J., Blanchard, P., Pavlinchenko, R. O., Valisa, M., Jardin, A., Pigatto, L., Vallar, M., Hakola, A., Čeřovský, J., Vugt, D. van, Hennequin, P., Ayllón Guerola, Juan Manuel, Carpanese , F., Naulin, V., Vartanian, S., Vasilovici, O., Geiger, B., Buermans, J., Nielsen, A. H., Verhaegh, K., Vermare, L., Gospodarczyk, M., Bombarda, T., Kurki-Suonio, T., Rispoli, N., Orsito, F. P., Czarnecka, A., Yoshida, M., Dal Molin, A., David, P., Nielsen, S. K., Moret, J. M., Sauter, O., Decker, J., Wensing, M., De Oliveira, H., Douai, D., Bernert, M., Piovesan, P., Walkden, N., Dreval, M. B., Hoppe, M., Zuin, M., Perek, A., Villone, F., Dudson, B., Dunne, M., Nocente, M., Ionita Schrittwieser, C., Duval, B. P., Nem, R. D., Keeling, D., Eich, T., Moro, A.M., Krawczyk, N., Elmore, S., Labit, B., Embréus, O., Esposito, B., Faitsch, M., Piron, C., Bin, W., EUROfusion MST1 Team, Calabró, G., Carr, M., Farník, M., Fasoli, M. A., Horáček, J., Lazzaro, E., Kudlacek, O., Kirneva, N., Isliker, H., Fedorczak, N., Felici, F., Feng, S., Innocente, P., Feng, X., Hogge, J. Ph., Ferró, G., Blanken, T. C., Zanka, P., Février, O., Ravensbergen, T., Bagnato, F., Ficker, O., Plyusnin, V., Harrison, J., Komm, M., Fil, A., Fontana, M., Rasmussen, Juul, Jacquier, R., Wauters, T., Frassinetti, L., Huang, Z., Nowak, S., Furno, I., Schneider, B. S., Wiesenberger, M.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/214177
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/214177
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Nuclear fusion
Tokamaks
Overview
TCV
MST1
EUROfusion
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Sumario:The research program of the TCV tokamak ranges from conventional to advanced-tokamak scenarios and alternative divertor configurations, to exploratory plasmas driven by theoretical insight, exploiting the device's unique shaping capabilities. Disruption avoidance by real-time locked mode prevention or unlocking with electron-cyclotron resonance heating (ECRH) was thoroughly documented, using magnetic and radiation triggers. Runaway generation with high-Z noble-gas injection and runaway dissipation by subsequent Ne or Ar injection were studied for model validation. The new 1 MW neutral beam injector has expanded the parameter range, now encompassing ELMy H-modes in an ITER-like shape and nearly non-inductive H-mode discharges sustained by electron cyclotron and neutral beam current drive. In the H-mode, the pedestal pressure increases modestly with nitrogen seeding while fueling moves the density pedestal outwards, but the plasma stored energy is largely uncorrelated to either seeding or fueling. High fueling at high triangularity is key to accessing the attractive small edge-localized mode (type-II) regime. Turbulence is reduced in the core at negative triangularity, consistent with increased confinement and in accord with global gyrokinetic simulations. The geodesic acoustic mode, possibly coupled with avalanche events, has been linked with particle flow to the wall in diverted plasmas. Detachment, scrape-off layer transport, and turbulence were studied in L- and H-modes in both standard and alternative configurations (snowflake, super-X, and beyond). The detachment process is caused by power 'starvation' reducing the ionization source, with volume recombination playing only a minor role. Partial detachment in the H-mode is obtained with impurity seeding and has shown little dependence on flux expansion in standard single-null geometry. In the attached L-mode phase, increasing the outer connection length reduces the in-out heat-flow asymmetry. A doublet plasma, featuring an internal X-point, was achieved successfully, and a transport barrier was observed in the mantle just outside the internal separatrix. In the near future variable-configuration baffles and possibly divertor pumping will be introduced to investigate the effect of divertor closure on exhaust and performance, and 3.5 MW ECRH and 1 MW neutral beam injection heating will be added.

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