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Critical gradient turbulence optimization toward a compact stellarator reactor concept [PDF]
Physical Review Research, 2023 Integrating turbulence into stellarator optimization is achieved by targeting the onset for the ion-temperature-gradient mode, highlighting effects of field line curvature, parallel connection length, local magnetic shear, and flux surface expansion. The
G. T. Roberg-Clark +5 more
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Confirmation of the topology of the Wendelstein 7-X magnetic field to better than 1:100,000 [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2016 Early stellarator designs suffered from high particle losses, an issue that can be addressed by optimization of the coils. Here the authors measure the magnetic field lines in the Wendelstein 7-X stellarator, confirming that the complicated design of the
T. Sunn Pedersen +9 more
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Kinetic simulations of scrape-off layer physics in the DIII-D tokamak
Nuclear Materials and Energy, 2017 Simulations using the fully kinetic code XGCa were undertaken to explore the impact of kinetic effects on scrape-off layer (SOL) physics in DIII-D H-mode plasmas.
R.M. Churchill +7 more
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Nuclear Fusion, 2023 The computational cost of constructing 3D magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equilibria is one of the limiting factors in stellarator research and design. Although data-driven approaches have been proposed to provide fast 3D MHD equilibria, the accuracy with ...
Andrea Merlo +5 more
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Coarse-grained gyrokinetics for the critical ion temperature gradient in stellarators
Physical Review Research, 2022 We present a modified gyrokinetic theory to predict the critical gradient that determines the linear onset of the ion temperature gradient (ITG) mode in stellarator plasmas.
G. T. Roberg-Clark +2 more
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Nuclear Materials and Energy, 2019 In ASDEX Upgrade with full-tungsten wall, boronization is an important tool to control tungsten sources and allow reliable operation at low collisionality. The duration of the beneficial effects is limited by the erosion of the boron layer, in particular
A. Bortolon +12 more
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Overdense plasma heating in Wendelstein 7-X(W7-X) stellarator
Results in Physics, 2017 High yield nuclear fusion operating in tokamak and stellarator need to heat plasma up to the required temperatures. As the confined plasma is overdensed, the electron cyclotron resonance heating (ECRH) is inefficient due to cut-off layer.
S. Adlparvar +3 more
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Energetic particle optimization of quasi-axisymmetric stellarator equilibria
Nuclear Fusion, 2022 An important goal of stellarator optimization is to achieve good confinement of energetic particles such as, in the case of a reactor, alphas created by deuterium–tritium fusion. In this work, a fixed-boundary stellarator equilibrium was re-optimized for
Alexandra LeViness +6 more
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Initial design concepts for solid boron injection in ITER
Nuclear Materials and EnergyAs part of ITER’s consideration to change its first wall material from beryllium to tungsten, the ITER Organization has proposed studying the feasibility of real-time solid boron injection (SBI) into the plasma to coat the walls and divertor to ...
J.A. Snipes +14 more
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Nuclear FusionStellarator reactor design and optimization requires quick and accurate neutronic simulations for obtaining tritium breeding ratio, coil neutron flux, and volumetric neutron heating.
Timo J. Bogaarts, Felix Warmer
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