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Improved heat and particle flux mitigation in high core confinement, baffled, alternative divertor configurations in the TCV tokamak

Basil Duval, Patrick Blanchard, Holger Reimerdes, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Umar Sheikh, Artur Perek, Matteo Vallar, Hugo De Oliveira, Filippo Bagnato

Nitrogen seeded detachment has been achieved in the tokamak a configuration variable (TCV) in alternative divertor configurations (ADCs), namely X-divertor and X-point target, with and without baffles in H-mode plasmas with high core confinement. Both ADCs ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

Initial TCV operation with a baffled divertor

Ambrogio Fasoli, Holger Reimerdes, Basil Duval, Jean-Marc Moret, Duccio Testa, Patrick Blanchard, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Umar Sheikh, Matthieu Toussaint, Marcelo Baquero Ruiz

The Tokamak à Configuration Variable (TCV) tokamak is in the midst of an upgrade to further its capability to investigate conventional and alternative divertor configurations. To that end, modular and removable gas baffles have been installed to decrease t ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2021

Real-time feedback control system for ADITYA-U horizontal plasma position stabilisation

Harshita Raj, Rohit Kumar, Shivam Gupta

The ADITYA-U tokamak (R-0 = 0.75 m, a = 0.25 m) is designed to shape plasma column in both single and double null diverter configurations. It is quite well known that sustaining a shaped plasma in tokamak requires very good plasma column position control, ...

2021

Controlling the rotation of drift tearing modes by biased electrode in ADITYA-U tokamak

Harshita Raj, Ankit Kumar, Abhijit Sen, Rohit Kumar, Sameer Kumar

The influence of background plasma poloidal rotation on the rotation frequency of the m/n = 2/1 drift tearing mode (DTM) has been studied in ADITYA-U tokamak. The poloidal rotation velocity of the background plasma in the ion diamagnetic direction is incre ...

2021

Gas-puff induced cold pulse propagation in ADITYA-U tokamak

Harshita Raj, Ankit Kumar, Abhijit Sen, Rohit Kumar

Short bursts (similar to 1 ms) of gas, injecting similar to 10(17)-10(18) molecules of hydrogen and/or deuterium, lead to the observation of cold pulse propagation phenomenon in hydrogen plasmas of the ADITYA-U tokamak. After every injection, a sharp incre ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2021

Effect of periodic gas-puffs on drift-tearing modes in ADITYA/ADITYA-U tokamak discharges

Harshita Raj, Abhijit Sen

The effect of a periodic train of short gas-puff pulses on the rotation frequency and amplitude of drift-tearing modes has been studied in ADITYA/ADITYA-U tokamak. The short gas puffs, injecting approximately similar to 10(17)-10(18) molecules of fuel gas ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2020