[HTML][HTML] Overview of the TCV digital real-time plasma control system and its applications

C Galperti, F Felici, T Vu, O Sauter, F Carpanese… - Fusion Engineering and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Real-time plasma control systems are at the heart of operation of modern tokamaks. The
control system of the TCV tokamak has recently seen a major upgrade in terms of its …

Spectroscopic investigations of detachment on the MAST Upgrade Super-X divertor

K Verhaegh, B Lipschultz, JR Harrison… - Nuclear …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the first analysis of the atomic and molecular processes at play during
detachment in the MAST-U Super-X divertor using divertor spectroscopy data. Our analysis …

Time-dependent SOLPS-ITER simulations of the tokamak plasma boundary for model predictive control using SINDy

JD Lore, S De Pascuale, P Laiu, B Russo… - Nuclear …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Time-dependent SOLPS-ITER simulations have been used to identify reduced models with
the sparse identification of nonlinear dynamics (SINDy) method and develop model …

Single-crystal ZrCo nanoparticle for advanced hydrogen and H-isotope storage

Z Li, S Liu, Y Pu, G Huang, Y Yuan, R Zhu, X Li… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Hydrogen-isotope storage materials are essential for the controlled nuclear fusion. However,
the currently used smelting-ZrCo alloy suffers from rapid degradation of performance due to …

Characterisation of detachment in the MAST-U Super-X divertor using multi-wavelength imaging of 2D atomic and molecular emission processes

TA Wijkamp, JS Allcock, X Feng, B Kool… - Nuclear …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
In this work, we provide the first 2D spatially resolved description of radiative detachment in
MAST-U Super-X L-mode divertor plasmas. The Super-X magnetic configuration was …

Benchmark of a self-consistent dynamic 1D divertor model DIV1D using the 2D SOLPS-ITER code

GL Derks, J Frankemölle, JTW Koenders… - Plasma Physics and …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper presents DIV1D, a new 1D dynamic physics-based model of the divertor plasma
under development to study and control the dynamics of detached plasmas. An innovative …

Fast dynamic 1D simulation of divertor plasmas with neural PDE surrogates

Y Poels, G Derks, E Westerhof, K Minartz… - Nuclear …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Managing divertor plasmas is crucial for operating reactor scale tokamak devices due to
heat and particle flux constraints on the divertor target. Simulation is an important tool to …

Fusion pilot plant performance and the role of a sustained high power density tokamak

JE Menard, BA Grierson, T Brown, C Rana… - Nuclear …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent US fusion development strategy reports all recommend that the US should pursue
innovative science and technology to enable construction of a fusion pilot plant (FPP) that …

Data-driven models in fusion exhaust: AI methods and perspectives

S Wiesen, S Dasbach, A Kit, AE Jaervinen… - Nuclear …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
A review is given on the highlights of a scatter-shot approach of develo** machine-
learning methods and artificial neural networks based fast predictors for the application to …

A systematic investigation of radiation collapse for disruption avoidance and prevention on JET tokamak

R Rossi, M Gelfusa, T Craciunescu… - Matter and Radiation …, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
To produce fusion reactions efficiently, thermonuclear plasmas have to reach extremely high
temperatures, which is incompatible with their coming into contact with material surfaces …