Pellet injection experiments and modelling

B Pégourié - Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
During the last decade, significant progress has been made in the field of pellet injection
with (1) the identification of the drift of the deposited material in the inhomogeneous …

Power and particle control

A Loarte, B Lipschultz, AS Kukushkin… - Nuclear …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
Progress, since the ITER Physics Basis publication (ITER Physics Basis Editors et al 1999
Nucl. Fusion 39 2137–2664), in understanding the processes that will determine the …

Physics and technology considerations for the deuterium–tritium fuel cycle and conditions for tritium fuel self sufficiency

M Abdou, M Riva, A Ying, C Day, A Loarte… - Nuclear …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The tritium aspects of the DT fuel cycle embody some of the most challenging feasibility and
attractiveness issues in the development of fusion systems. The review and analyses in this …

Metis: a fast integrated tokamak modelling tool for scenario design

JF Artaud, F Imbeaux, J Garcia, G Giruzzi, T Aniel… - Nuclear …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
METIS is a numerical code aiming at fast full tokamak plasma analyses and predictions. It
combines 0D scaling-law normalised heat and particle transport with 1D current diffusion …

Neutral gas and plasma shielding (NGPS) model and cross-field motion of ablated material for hydrogen–neon mixed pellet injection

A Matsuyama - Physics of Plasmas, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
A neutral-gas and plasma shielding (NGPS) model is applied for cryogenic hydrogen–neon
mixed pellet injection used for the mitigation of tokamak disruptions. The NGPS model is …

Self-consistent investigation of density fueling needs on ITER and CFETR utilizing the new Pellet Ablation Module

J McClenaghan, LL Lao, PB Parks, W Wu… - Nuclear …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Self-consistent modeling using the stability, transport, equilibrium, and pedestal (STEP)
workflow in the OMFIT integrated modeling framework (predicting pedestal with EPED, core …

Integrated plasma physics modelling for the Culham steady state spherical tokamak fusion power plant

HR Wilson, JW Ahn, RJ Akers, D Applegate… - Nuclear …, 2004 - iopscience.iop.org
Integrated modelling of important plasma physics issues related to the design of a steady-
state spherical tokamak (ST) fusion power plant is described. The key is a steady-state …

Transport simulations of pre-thermal quench shattered pellet injection in ITER: code verification and assessment of key trends

A Matsuyama, D Hu, M Lehnen… - Plasma Physics and …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The material assimilation of the shattered pellet injection (SPI) in the pre-thermal quench
phase in ITER is studied numerically by means of one-dimensional (1D) transport …

Plasma behaviour with hydrogen supersonic molecular beam and cluster jet injection in the HL-2A tokamak

L Yao, B Feng, C Chen, Z Shi, B Yuan, Y Zhou… - Nuclear …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
The experimental results of low pressure supersonic molecular beam injection (SMBI)
fuelling on the HL-2A closed divertor indicate that during the period of pulsed SMBI the …

A comparison of the influence of plasmoid-drift mechanisms on plasma fuelling by cryogenic pellets in ITER and Wendelstein 7-X

N Panadero, F Koechl, AR Polevoi, J Baldzuhn… - Nuclear …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Pellet injection is the most promising technique to achieve efficient plasma core fuelling, key
for attaining stationary scenarios in large magnetic confinement fusion devices. In this paper …