Experimental divertor physics

CS Pitcher, PC Stangeby - Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 1997 - iopscience.iop.org
… The physics of divertors in tokamaks is reviewed, primarily from an experimental point of …
The paper covers the four main subject areas at issue in divertor research: (1) the wide …

Divertor physics research on Alcator C-Mod

B Lipschultz, B LaBombard, JL Terry… - Fusion science and …, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
… Photon trapping of hydrogenic Lyman series line emission will be very strong in the divertor
of a burning plasma experiment ~BPX!. For example, even though ITER is predicted to have …

3D edge modeling and island divertor physics

Y Feng, F Sardei, J Kisslinger, P Grigull… - … to Plasma Physics, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
… 3D experiment, W7-AS provides not only a practical fully 3D island divertor configuration
but also sufficient experimental … the island divertor physics with respect to tokamak divertors. …

A tutorial on some basic aspects of divertor physics

PC Stangeby - Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2000 - iopscience.iop.org
… We may try our simple model out on experimental measurements made on the DIII-D
tokamak, for a particular discharge, 86575, at a particular time, 1.65 s after the initiation of the …

Transport in island divertors: physics, 3D modelling and comparison to first experiments on W7-AS

Y Feng, F Sardei, P Grigull, K McCormick… - Plasma physics and …, 2002 - iopscience.iop.org
… the detachment physics in … divertor experiments. A comparison of calculations and
measurements is presented for high-density, high-power W7-AS divertor discharges and the physics

Physics basis for the first ITER tungsten divertor

RA Pitts, X Bonnin, F Escourbiac, H Frerichs… - Nuclear Materials and …, 2019 - Elsevier
… These results may be contrasted with those found on radiative divertor experiments on Alcator
C-Mod with molybdenum PFCs at high magnetic field in which, for both N and Ne seeding …

Understanding the edge physics of divertor experiments by comparison of 2D edge code calculations and experimental measurements

A Loarte - Journal of Nuclear Materials, 1997 - Elsevier
experimental measurements of the SOL and divertor plasma is presented. Improvements in
the models and experimental … of divertor geometry, reproduce experimental observations of …

First divertor physics studies in Wendelstein 7-X

TS Pedersen, R König, M Jakubowski… - Nuclear …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
… stellarator fusion experiment, which went into operation in 2015, has been operating since
2017 with an un-cooled modular graphite divertor. This allowed first divertor physics studies …

Divertor experiment in large helical device

O Motojima, N Ohyabu, A Komori, N Noda… - Plasma Physics and …, 1996 - iopscience.iop.org
divertor concepts and technologies. In the LHD divertor experiment, we will use two different
divertor … The research on the helical divertor is complementary to that of the tokamak double …

Modelling of island divertor physics and comparison to W7-AS experimental results

Y Feng, F Sardei, P Grigull, K McCormick… - Journal of nuclear …, 2003 - Elsevier
divertor experiments. Measurements and simulations are compared for high density, high
power W7-AS divertor discharges and the physics … the W7-AS experiment have been started …