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Modelling of power exhaust in TCV positive and negative triangularity L-mode plasmas

Tonello, E.  
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Mombelli, F.
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Fevrier, O.  
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June 1, 2024
Plasma Physics And Controlled Fusion

L-mode negative triangularity (NT) operation is a promising alternative to the positive triangularity (PT) H-mode as a high-confinement edge localised mode-free operational regime. In this work, two TCV Ohmic L-mode core density ramps with opposite triangularity delta similar or equal to +/- 0.3 are investigated using SOLPS-ITER modelling. This numerical study aims to investigate the power exhaust differences between NT and PT focusing, in particular, on the geometrical effect of triangularity. To disentangle the latter from differences related to cross-field transport, anomalous diffusivities for particle ( D n A N ) and energy ( chi e / i A N ) transport are fixed to the same values in PT and NT. The simulation results clearly show dissimilar transport and accumulation of neutral particles in the scrape-off layer for the two configurations. This gives rise to different ionization sources in the edge and divertor regions and produces differences in the poloidal and cross-field fluxes, ultimately leading to different power and particle divertor fluxes in the two configurations. Simulations recover the experimental feature of a hotter and attached outer target ( T e , OSP NT greater than or similar to 5 eV ) in the NT scenario compared to the PT counterpart.

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research article
DOI
10.1088/1361-6587/ad3c19
Web of Science ID

WOS:001204905900001

Author(s)
Tonello, E.  
Mombelli, F.
Fevrier, O.  
Alberti, G.
Bolzonella, T.
Durr-Legoupil-Nicoud, G.  
Gorno, Sophie Danielle Angelica  
Reimerdes, H.  
Theiler, C.  
Vianello, N.
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Corporate authors
TCV Team
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WPTE Team
Date Issued

2024-06-01

Publisher

Iop Publishing Ltd

Published in
Plasma Physics And Controlled Fusion
Volume

66

Issue

6

Article Number

065006

Subjects

Physical Sciences

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Tokamak

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Power Exhaust

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Plasma Detachment

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Modelling

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Negative Triangularity

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Tcv

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FunderGrant Number

EUROfusionhttp://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100019784

101052200

European Union via the Euratom Research and Training Programme

Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI)

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May 1, 2024
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