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Experimental implementation of a real-time power flux estimator for the ITER first wall on the TCV tokamak

Anand, H.
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Pitts, R. A.  
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De Vries, P. C.
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October 1, 2019
Fusion Engineering And Design

A control-oriented approach to the monitoring of wall power flux densities on ITER has been successfully developed. It is based on real-time equilibrium reconstruction in 2-D which is then used to describe the deposited heat flux as a poloidal flux function with user specified parameters for the power exhausted into the scrape-off layer (SOL) and the SOL heat flux width. To account for the real 3-D geometry of the plasma-facing components (PFC), appropriate weighting factors are derived from magnetic field line tracing in 3-D. Integration of the 3-D effect is performed with a new GUI-based software environment, SMITER, incorporating a field line tracer and permitting import and meshing of PFC CAD models. The paper discusses the experimental demonstration of the model-based wall heat flux algorithm on the TCV tokamak, reporting on the benchmarking of the new code package, SMITER against infra-red camera heat flux measurements and the derivation of the component shaping weighting factors. A comparison of the real-time estimation of the peak power flux and its spatial location against the off-line infra-red measurement for limiter plasma configurations is presented.

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research article
DOI
10.1016/j.fusengdes.2019.111242
Web of Science ID

WOS:000487765500023

Author(s)
Anand, H.
Pitts, R. A.  
De Vries, P. C.
Snipes, J. A.
Nespoli, F.
Labit, B.  
Galperti, C.
Coda, S.  
Brank, M.
Kos, L.
Date Issued

2019-10-01

Published in
Fusion Engineering And Design
Volume

147

Article Number

111242

Subjects

Nuclear Science & Technology

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real-time control

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heat flux estimation on plasma-facing components

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real-time equilibrium solver

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scrape-off layer

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magnetic field-line tracing

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plasma-facing components

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plasma

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deposition

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