Publications by Wouter Vijvers

Development of an 11-channel multi wavelength imaging diagnostic for divertor plasmas in MAST Upgrade

Basil Duval, Yanis Andrebe, Wouter Vijvers, Artur Perek

Divertor detachment and alternative divertor magnetic geometries are predicted to be promising approaches to handle the power exhaust of future fusion devices. In order to understand the detachment process caused by volumetric losses in alternative diverto ...

2021

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

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

A Variable Structure Control Scheme Proposal for the Tokamak a Configuration Variable

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Timothy Goodman, Xavier Llobet, Yves Martin, Jean-Marc Moret, Olivier Sauter, Minh Quang Tran, Henri Weisen, Ivo Furno, Holger Reimerdes, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Stefano Coda, Christian Schlatter, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Alexander Karpushov, Laurie Porte, Yanis Andrebe, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Graves, Duccio Testa, Benoît Labit, Rémy Jacquier, Paolo Ricci, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Fabio Riva, Wouter Vijvers, Josef Kamleitner, Hoang Bao Le, Zhouji Huang, Himank Anand, Falk Hans Braunmüller, Joyeeta Sinha, Claudio Marini, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Federico Nespoli, Oulfa Chellaï, Anna Teplukhina, , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

MANTIS: A real-time quantitative multispectral imaging system for fusion plasmas

Basil Duval, Yanis Andrebe, Wouter Vijvers, Cristian Galperti, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh, Artur Perek

This work presents a novel, real-time capable, 10-channel Multispectral Advanced Narrowband Tokamak Imaging System installed on the TCV tokamak, MANTIS. Software and hardware requirements are presented together with the complete system architecture. The im ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2019

Conduction-based model of the Scrape-Off Layer power sharing between inner and outer divertor in diverted low-density tokamak plasmas

Basil Duval, Holger Reimerdes, Marco Wischmeier, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Hugo De Oliveira, Wouter Vijvers, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Umar Sheikh, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh, Nicola Vianello, Roberto Maurizio, Mirko Wensing

A simple analytic model for the repartition of the Scrape-Off Layer (SOL) exhaust power between the inner and outer divertors in a diverted low-density tokamak plasma is introduced. Electron heat conduction is assumed to dominate the heat transport, from t ...

Elsevier2019

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, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Progress toward divertor detachment on TCV within H-mode operating parameters

Basil Duval, Holger Reimerdes, Alexander Karpushov, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Wouter Vijvers, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Curdin Tobias Wüthrich, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Umar Sheikh, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh, Roberto Maurizio, Artur Perek

Recent experiments on Tokamak à Configuration Variable have made significant progress toward partial detachment of the outer divertor in neutral beam heated H-mode plasmas in conventional and alternative divertor configurations. The heating power required ...

2019

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

Patrick Blanchard, Stefano Alberti, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Timothy Goodman, Xavier Llobet, Yves Martin, Jean-Marc Moret, Olivier Sauter, Minh Quang Tran, Henri Weisen, Ivo Furno, Holger Reimerdes, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Stefano Coda, Christian Schlatter, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Alexander Karpushov, Laurie Porte, Yanis Andrebe, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Graves, Duccio Testa, Benoît Labit, Javier García Hernández, Rémy Jacquier, Paolo Ricci, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Hugo De Oliveira, Wouter Vijvers, Zhouji Huang, Himank Anand, Joyeeta Sinha, Claudio Marini, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Federico Nespoli, Oulfa Chellaï, Anna Teplukhina, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

ELM-induced cold pulse propagation in ASDEX Upgrade

Patrick Blanchard, Roland Behn, Basil Duval, Timothy Goodman, Yves Martin, Jean-Marc Moret, Richard Pitts, Olivier Sauter, Holger Reimerdes, Stefano Coda, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Alexander Karpushov, Laurie Porte, Yanis Andrebe, Yann Camenen, Thomas Binderup Jensen, Duccio Testa, Benoît Labit, Emiliano Fable, Javier García Hernández, Ben McMillan, Marc Gruber, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Dávid Wágner, Attila Bencze, Doohyun Kim, Wouter Vijvers, Hoang Bao Le, Zhouji Huang, Himank Anand, Claudio Marini, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Federico Nespoli, Heinz Mueller, Anna Teplukhina, Joan Decker, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Pedro Andres Molina Cabrera, Matteo Fontana, , , , , , , , , , , ,

Sliding Surface Based Schemes for the Tokamak a Configuration Variable

Patrick Blanchard, Stefano Alberti, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Timothy Goodman, Xavier Llobet, Yves Martin, Jean-Marc Moret, Olivier Sauter, Minh Quang Tran, Henri Weisen, Ivo Furno, Holger Reimerdes, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Stefano Coda, Christian Schlatter, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Alexander Karpushov, Laurie Porte, Yanis Andrebe, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Graves, Bernard Schneider, Duccio Testa, Benoît Labit, Rémy Jacquier, Paolo Ricci, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Miguel Filipe Silva Füglister, Fabio Riva, Wouter Vijvers, Josef Kamleitner, Hoang Bao Le, Zhouji Huang, Himank Anand, Falk Hans Braunmüller, Joyeeta Sinha, Claudio Marini, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Divertor power load studies for attached L-mode single-null plasmas in TCV

Holger Reimerdes, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Wouter Vijvers, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Roberto Maurizio

This paper investigates the power loads at the inner and outer divertor targets of attached, Ohmic L-mode, deuterium plasmas in the TCV tokamak, in various experimental situations using an Infrared thermography system. The study comprises variations of the ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2018

Filamentary velocity scaling validation in the TCV tokamak

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

American Institute of Physics (AIP)2018

SOL transport and detachment in alternative divertor configurations in TCV L-and H-mode plasmas

Basil Duval, Holger Reimerdes, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Hugo De Oliveira, Wouter Vijvers, Curdin Tobias Wüthrich, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Umar Sheikh, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh, Nicola Vianello, Roberto Maurizio, Mirko Wensing, Davide Galassi, Artur Perek

2018

Spectroscopic investigations of divertor detachment in TCV

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

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

Overview of progress in European medium sized tokamaks towards an integrated plasma-edge/wall solution

Patrick Blanchard, Roland Behn, Basil Duval, Timothy Goodman, Yves Martin, Jean-Marc Moret, Richard Pitts, Olivier Sauter, Holger Reimerdes, Stefano Coda, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Alexander Karpushov, Laurie Porte, Yanis Andrebe, Yann Camenen, Thomas Binderup Jensen, Duccio Testa, Benoît Labit, Emiliano Fable, Javier García Hernández, Ben McMillan, Marc Gruber, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Dávid Wágner, Attila Bencze, Doohyun Kim, Wouter Vijvers, Hoang Bao Le, Zhouji Huang, Himank Anand, Claudio Marini, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Federico Nespoli, Heinz Mueller, Anna Teplukhina, Joan Decker, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Umar Sheikh, Cristian Galperti, , , , , , , , ,

Conceptual design and proof-of-principle testing of the real-time multispectral imaging system MANTIS

Basil Duval, Yanis Andrebe, Wouter Vijvers

The Multispectral Advanced Narrowband Tokamak Imaging System (MANTIS) is proposed to resolve the steep temperature and density gradients in the scrape-off layer of tokamaks in real-time. The initial design is to deliver two-dimensional distributions of key ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2017

Results from recent detachment experiments in alternative divertor configurations on TCV

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

Detachment evolution on the TCV tokamak

Basil Duval, Holger Reimerdes, Marco Wischmeier, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Wouter Vijvers, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Umar Sheikh, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh

Divertor detachment in the TCV tokamak has been investigated through experiments and modelling. Density ramp experiments were carried out in ohmic heated L-mode pulses with the ion del B drift directed away from the primary X-point, similar to previous stu ...

Elsevier2017

Experimental Studies of the Snowflake Divertor in TCV

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

To address the risk that, in a fusion reactor, the conventional single-null divertor (SND) configuration may not be able to handle the power exhaust, alternative divertor configurations, such as the Snowflake divertor (SFD), are investigated in TCV. The ex ...

Elsevier Science Bv2017