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Re-design of EU DEMO with a low aspect ratio

The design point that had been chosen for EU DEMO in 2016 is reviewed here and a modification is proposed with a lower aspect ratio. Previously the same aspect ratio, A, was chosen for EU DEMO as in major tokamak experiments including ITER (A = 3.1), and, ...

2024

Inter-discharge optimization for fast, reliable access to ASDEX Upgrade advanced tokamak scenario

Olivier Sauter, Hartmut Zohm, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Simon Van Mulders, Cassandre Ekta Contré

Rapid inter-discharge simulation and optimization using the RAPTOR code have allowed the development of a reliable and reproducible early heating strategy for an advanced tokamak (AT) scenario on ASDEX Upgrade. Solving for electron heat and current diffusi ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2024

Studies on EU-DEMO 3D coils requirements and conceptual design for error field correction and plasma control

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Hartmut Zohm, Leonardo Pigatto

This work presents the initial studies on the requirements for the design of 3D coils on EU-DEMO. The use of 3D coils in present machines includes two main purposes: the first one is the Error Field Correction (EFC). The EFC aims at minimizing the intrinsi ...

Elsevier Science Sa2023

Impact of the plasma operation on the technical requirements in EU-DEMO

Olivier Sauter, Minh Quang Tran, Hartmut Zohm, Emiliano Fable, Simon Van Mulders

The plasma design point during stationary phase operation of EU-DEMO has been described extensively in the past, and the assumptions employed for its definition have been supported by various investigations. However, a stationary snapshot is by far not suf ...

2022

Experimental confirmation of efficient island divertor operation and successful neoclassical transport optimization in Wendelstein 7-X

Gregory Vogel, Eduardo Sanchez, Frank Rüdiger Wagner, Alberto Bottino, Hartmut Zohm, Jonathan Graves, Thomas Binderup Jensen, Michel Haas, Emiliano Fable, Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Attila Bencze, Xiaoxue Han, Adnan Ali, Jieping Zhu, Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin, Antoine Baillod, Konstantinos Avramidis, Nicola Vianello, Sheng Xu, Mike Machielsen, Ajay Kumar, Hui Wang, Shuai Liu

We present recent highlights from the most recent operation phases of Wendelstein 7-X, the most advanced stellarator in the world. Stable detachment with good particle exhaust, low impurity content, and energy confinement times exceeding 100 ms, have been ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

Integration concept of an Electron Cyclotron System in DEMO

René Chavan, Minh Quang Tran, Hartmut Zohm, Konstantinos Avramidis

The pre-conceptual layout for an electron cyclotron system (ECS) in DEMO is described. The present DEMO ECS considers only equatorial ports for both plasma heating and neoclassical tearing mode (NTM) control. This differs from ITER, where four launchers in ...

2021

Basic design considerations for a frequency step-tunable electron cyclotron wave system to suppress NTMs in DEMO

Minh Quang Tran, Hartmut Zohm, Emiliano Fable, Konstantinos Avramidis, Emanuele Poli, Giovanni Tardini

An Electron Cyclotron Wave (ECW) system will be used in the European DEMO for the stabilization of Neoclassical Tearing Modes (NTMs). In order to avoid movable mirrors in the harsh environment close to the plasma and to simplify the NTM launcher integratio ...

2021

Assessment of alternative divertor configurations as an exhaust solution for DEMO

Holger Reimerdes, Hartmut Zohm, Seungkyu Ha, Roberto Maurizio

Plasma exhaust has been identified as a major challenge towards the realisation of magnetic confinement fusion. To mitigate the risk that the single null divertor (SND) with a high radiation fraction in the scrape-of-layer (SOL) adopted for ITER will not e ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2020

DEMO physics challenges beyond ITER

Olivier Sauter, Hartmut Zohm, Emiliano Fable

For electricity producing tokamak fusion reactors like EU-DEMO, it is prudent to choose a plasma scenario close to the ITER baseline, where the largest amount of experimental evidence is available. Nevertheless, there are some aspects in which ITER and EU- ...

2020

Overview of physics studies on ASDEX Upgrade

Basil Duval, Timothy Goodman, Richard Pitts, Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Alberto Bottino, Marco Wischmeier, Andrea Scarabosio, Hartmut Zohm, Laurie Porte, Yann Camenen, Thomas Binderup Jensen, Benoît Labit, Emiliano Fable, Alessandro Bortolon, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Fang Liu, Dávid Wágner, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Emanuele Poli, Nicola Vianello, Giovanni Tardini, Cristian Sommariva, Alessandro Pau, Otto Asunta, Haomin Sun, Xiao Wang, Gergely Papp, Bernhard Sieglin

The ASDEX Upgrade (AUG) programme, jointly run with the EUROfusion MST1 task force, continues to significantly enhance the physics base of ITER and DEMO. Here, the full tungsten wall is a key asset for extrapolating to future devices. The high overall heat ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2019

Interface and requirements analysis on the DEMO Heating and Current Drive system using Systems Engineering methodologies

Minh Quang Tran, Hartmut Zohm

In this paper we present the methodology implemented for analyzing System Requirements and Interfaces of the Heating and Current Drive (HCD) system of the European Demonstration Fusion Power Reactor DEMO. The work consisted in updating the preliminary fram ...

2019

Evolution of nitrogen concentration and ammonia production in N-2-seeded H-mode discharges at ASDEX Upgrade

Basil Duval, Timothy Goodman, Richard Pitts, Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Alberto Bottino, Marco Wischmeier, Andrea Scarabosio, Hartmut Zohm, Laurie Porte, Yann Camenen, Thomas Binderup Jensen, Emiliano Fable, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Dávid Wágner, Doohyun Kim, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Emanuele Poli, Nicola Vianello, Giovanni Tardini, Donghyun Kim, Cristian Sommariva, Otto Asunta, Haomin Sun, Xiao Wang, Gergely Papp, Bernhard Sieglin

Ammonia formation was studied in a series of dedicated nitrogen seeded H-mode discharges at ASDEX Upgrade. The evolution of ammonia formation was investigated with a reference phase before the seeding, and a long, stable flat-top nitrogen-seeded phase. It ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2019

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

Patrick Blanchard, Roland Behn, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Timothy Goodman, Yves Martin, Jean-Marc Moret, Richard Pitts, Olivier Sauter, Henri Weisen, Holger Reimerdes, Stefano Coda, Alberto Bottino, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Andrea Scarabosio, Hartmut Zohm, Alexander Karpushov, Laurie Porte, Yanis Andrebe, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Graves, Thomas Binderup Jensen, Benoît Labit, Emiliano Fable, Mikhail Maslov, Javier García Hernández, David Pfefferlé, Ben McMillan, Marc Gruber, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Miguel Filipe Silva Füglister, Dávid Wágner, Attila Bencze, Doohyun Kim, Wouter Vijvers, Hoang Bao Le, Zhouji Huang, Himank Anand, Claudio Marini, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Validation of the ICRF antenna coupling code RAPLICASOL against TOPICA and experiments

Patrick Blanchard, Roland Behn, Basil Duval, Timothy Goodman, Pierre Jacquot, Bruno Marchand, Yves Martin, Pascal Morel, Jean-Marc Moret, Richard Pitts, Olivier Sauter, Holger Reimerdes, Stefano Coda, Alberto Bottino, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Andrea Scarabosio, Hartmut Zohm, Alexander Karpushov, Laurie Porte, Yanis Andrebe, Yann Camenen, Thomas Binderup Jensen, Duccio Testa, Telmo David Ribeiro Da Costa, Benoît Labit, Emiliano Fable, Patrycja Nowak-Sliwinska, Javier García Hernández, Ben McMillan, Marc Gruber, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Jose Felix Vega Stavro, Lenke Horváth, Dávid Wágner, Attila Bencze, Thomas Riedl, Lorenzo Anton-Louis Talà, Diego Carnevale, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Path-oriented early reaction to approaching disruptions in ASDEX Upgrade and TCV in view of the future needs for ITER and DEMO

Basil Duval, Timothy Goodman, Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Hartmut Zohm, Laurie Porte, Matteo Fontana, Umar Sheikh, Cristian Galperti

2018

Overview of ASDEX Upgrade results

Basil Duval, Timothy Goodman, Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Alberto Bottino, Marco Wischmeier, Andrea Scarabosio, Hartmut Zohm, Laurie Porte, Yann Camenen, Thomas Binderup Jensen, Emiliano Fable, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Dávid Wágner, Doohyun Kim, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Emanuele Poli, Nicola Vianello, Giovanni Tardini, Donghyun Kim, Cristian Sommariva, Otto Asunta, Haomin Sun, Xiao Wang, Gergely Papp, Bernhard Sieglin

The ASDEX Upgrade (AUG) programme is directed towards physics input to critical elements of the ITER design and the preparation of ITER operation, as well as addressing physics issues for a future DEMO design. Since 2015, AUG is equipped with a new pair of ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2017

The DEMO wall load challenge

Ambrogio Fasoli, Jan Horacek, Hartmut Zohm, Jonathan Graves, David Pfefferlé, Samuel Lanthaler, Bernhard Sieglin

For several reasons the challenge to keep the loads to the first wall within engineering limits is substantially higher in DEMO compared to ITER. Therefore the pre-conceptual design development for DEMO that is currently ongoing in Europe needs to be based ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2017

Comment on 'On the fusion triple product and fusion power gain of tokamak pilot plants and reactors', by A. Costley

Olivier Sauter, Hartmut Zohm

In this comment, we discuss the arguments raised in two recent papers (Costley 2016 Nucl. Fusion 56 066003, Costley et al 2015 Nucl. Fusion 55 033001) on the claimed size independence of fusion power, triple product and fusion gain in tokamak reactors, and ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2017

Modeling of neoclassical tearing mode stabilization by electron cyclotron heating and current drive in tokamak plasmas

Olivier Sauter, Hartmut Zohm, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Emanuele Poli, Kyungjin Kim

An integrated numerical system is established to model time-dependent behavior of the neoclassical tearing mode (NTM) in a tokamak which solves the modified Rutherford equation (MRE) by coupling with plasma transport, equilibrium, heating and current drive ...

2016

Status, Operation, and Extension of the ECRH System at ASDEX Upgrade

Timothy Goodman, Stefan Müller, Hartmut Zohm, Dávid Wágner

The upgraded electron cyclotron resonance heating (ECRH) system at ASDEX Upgrade (AUG) has been routinely used with eight gyrotrons during the last experimental campaign. A further upgrade will replace the existing system of four short-pulse (140 GHz, 2 s, ...

2016