Conveners
NSC/1 Next step/new fusion device concepts: data challenges and design optimization: Session 1
- Pablo Rodriguez-Fernandez (UsPSFC)
- Didier Mazon (CEA Cadarache)
NSC/1 Next step/new fusion device concepts: data challenges and design optimization
- Pablo Rodriguez-Fernandez (UsPSFC)
- Didier Mazon (CEA Cadarache)
When it comes to magnetic confinement nuclear fusion, high-quality magnetic fields are crucial for sustaining high-heat plasmas and managing plasma density, fast particles, and turbulence. Transport and turbulence are particularly important factors in this process. Traditional designs of stellarator machines, like those seen in the HSX and W7-X experiments, typically optimize magnetic fields...
The design of optimized, commercially-attractive reactors requires careful understanding of the core plasma physics and the development of accurate predictive frameworks. Historically, first-principles gyrokinetic turbulence simulations were too expensive to be used in predictive workflows, as they often required hundreds or thousands of evaluations to reach multi-channel steady-state or...
Magnetic nuclear fusion reactors such as tokamaks and stellarators rely on superconducting coils (also called magnets) to confine and shape the plasma in which the fusion reactions occur. Stellarators are fusion devices based on three-dimensional plasma shapes which enable steady state and more stable operations compared with tokamaks. Nevertheless, the complex stellarator plasma shape demands...
Due to a number of factors, long pulse experiments conducted under Negative ion source based Netutral Beam Injection (NNBI) are not always stable. The occurrence of breakdown can lead to damage of the ion source device. Currently, low-speed data acquisition (DAQ) systems operating in NNBI have low sampling rates, which make it difficult to accurately characterize the changes of each key...
