Publications de Wouter Vijvers

Development of an 11-channel multi wavelength imaging diagnostic for divertor plasmas in MAST Upgrade

Basil Duval, Yanis Andrebe, Artur Perek, Wouter Vijvers

Divertor detachment and alternative divertor magnetic geometries are predicted to be promising approaches to handle the power exhaust of future fusion devices. In order to understand the detachment process caused by volumetric losses in alternative diverto ...

2021

Development of a real-time algorithm for detection of the divertor detachment radiation front using multi-spectral imaging

Christian Gabriel Theiler, Artur Perek, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh, Wouter Vijvers

In this paper we present a novel algorithm to extract the optical plasma boundary and radiation front for detached divertor plasmas. We show that reliable detection of the divertor leg and radiation front is possible using lightweight image processing tool ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2020

A Variable Structure Control Scheme Proposal for the Tokamak a Configuration Variable

Olivier Sauter, Ambrogio Fasoli, Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Timothy Goodman, Jonathan Graves, Yves Martin, Jean-Marc Moret, Ivo Furno, Duccio Testa

Fusion power is the most significant prospects in the long-term future of energy in the sense that it composes a potentially clean, cheap, and unlimited power source that would substitute the widespread traditional nonrenewable energies, reducing the geogr ...

2019

MANTIS: A real-time quantitative multispectral imaging system for fusion plasmas

Basil Duval, Cristian Galperti, Yanis Andrebe, Artur Perek, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh, Wouter Vijvers

This work presents a novel, real-time capable, 10-channel Multispectral Advanced Narrowband Tokamak Imaging System installed on the TCV tokamak, MANTIS. Software and hardware requirements are presented together with the complete system architecture. The im ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2019

Conduction-based model of the Scrape-Off Layer power sharing between inner and outer divertor in diverted low-density tokamak plasmas

Basil Duval, Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Benoît Labit, Mirko Wensing, Umar Sheikh, Marco Wischmeier, Nicola Vianello, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh

A simple analytic model for the repartition of the Scrape-Off Layer (SOL) exhaust power between the inner and outer divertors in a diverted low-density tokamak plasma is introduced. Electron heat conduction is assumed to dominate the heat transport, from t ...

Elsevier2019

A locked mode indicator for disruption prediction on JET and ASDEX upgrade

Olivier Sauter, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Stefano Coda, Timothy Goodman, Yves Martin, Jonathan Graves, Jean-Marc Moret, Patrick Blanchard, Holger Reimerdes

The aim of this paper is to present a signal processing algorithm that, applied to the raw Locked Mode signal, allows us to obtain a disruption indicator in principle exploitable on different tokamaks. A common definition of such an indicator for different ...

2019

Validation of the ICRF antenna coupling code RAPLICASOL against TOPICA and experiments

Olivier Sauter, Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Timothy Goodman, Yves Martin, Jean-Marc Moret, Duccio Testa, Patrick Blanchard, Bruno Marchand, Holger Reimerdes

In this paper we validate the finite element code RAPLICASOL, which models radiofrequency wave propagation in edge plasmas near ICRF antennas, against calculations with the TOPICA code. We compare the output of both codes for the ASDEX Upgrade 2-strap ante ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2019

Progress toward divertor detachment on TCV within H-mode operating parameters

Basil Duval, Holger Reimerdes, Benoît Labit, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Alexander Karpushov, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Umar Sheikh, Artur Perek, Cedric Kar-Wai Tsui, Kevin Henricus Annemarie Verhaegh

Recent experiments on Tokamak à Configuration Variable have made significant progress toward partial detachment of the outer divertor in neutral beam heated H-mode plasmas in conventional and alternative divertor configurations. The heating power required ...

2019

Physics research on the TCV tokamak facility: from conventional to alternative scenarios and beyond

Olivier Sauter, Ambrogio Fasoli, Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Timothy Goodman, Jonathan Graves, Yves Martin, Jean-Marc Moret, Stefano Alberti, Ivo Furno

IOP Publishing Ltd2019

ELM-induced cold pulse propagation in ASDEX Upgrade

Olivier Sauter, Basil Duval, Stefano Coda, Timothy Goodman, Yves Martin, Jean-Marc Moret, Duccio Testa, Patrick Blanchard, Holger Reimerdes, Benoît Labit

In ASDEX Upgrade, the propagation of cold pulses induced by type-I edge localized modes (ELMs) is studied using electron cyclotron emission measurements, in a dataset of plasmas with moderate triangularity. It is found that the edge safety factor or the pl ...

2019