Validation of prediction capability of operating space for plasma initiation in MAST-U
| Autor: | Hyun-Tae Kim, Fabien Jaulmes, Hana El-Haroun, Geof Cunningham, Charles Vincent, Lucy Kogan, Rory Scannell, Sarah Elmore, Francis Casson, Stuart Henderson, Andrew Thornton, James Harrison, Xavier Litaudon, Gloria Falchetto, Jack Lovell, Jeongwon Lee, Hong-Sik Yun, Yeongsun Lee, Runze Chen, MAST-U team |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2024 |
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| Zdroj: | Nuclear Fusion, Vol 64, Iss 12, p 126010 (2024) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 1741-4326 0029-5515 |
| DOI: | 10.1088/1741-4326/ad7a8c |
| Popis: | DYON is a plasma initiation modelling code that solves the differential equation system of the full circuit equations (plasma current, active coil currents and eddy currents in full passive structures) and 0D global energy and particle balance equations (Kim 2022 Nucl. Fusion 62 126012). In order to test the capability of the full electromagnetic plasma initiation model to predict individual discharges in experiments and thus the operating space in the device, a dedicated experimental database was built in MAST-U by scanning the prefilled gas pressure p _0 and the induced loop voltage $V_{\mathrm{loop}}$ . In the experimental operating space of p _0 and $V_{\mathrm{loop}}$ the lower and the upper limits of p _0 are determined by the plasma breakdown failure and the plasma burn-through failure, respectively. The lower limit of $V_{\mathrm{loop}}$ is determined by the plasma burn-through failure. By directly reading the control room data used in each discharge (i.e. currents in the solenoid, poloidal field coils, and toroidal field coils, p _0 , and gas puffing rate), the full electromagnetic DYON consistently predicted the failed breakdown, failed burn-through, and successful plasma initiation discharges in the experimental database, demonstrating its capability to predict the operating space for inductive plasma initiation. The Paschen curve calculated with the effective connection length in MAST-U indicates a much higher p _0 required for plasma breakdown than the experimental data, indicating that individual field line evaluation is necessary to calculate the quantitative requirements for Townsend breakdown. The demonstration in this paper shows that the full electromagnetic DYON could be a useful simulation tool to assess the feasibility of inductive plasma initiation and to optimise operating scenarios in future devices. |
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