Modelling of vertical displacement events in tokamaks: status and challenges ahead

FJ Artola, N Schwarz, S Gerasimov… - Plasma Physics and …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper, we revisit the physics of mitigated and unmitigated Vertical Displacement
Events (VDEs) and present a summary of present modelling efforts and code capabilities …

Energy deposition and melt deformation on the ITER first wall due to disruptions and vertical displacement events

J Coburn, M Lehnen, RA Pitts, G Simic, FJ Artola… - Nuclear …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
An analysis workflow has been developed to assess energy deposition and material
damage for ITER vertical displacement events (VDEs) and major disruptions (MD). This …

[HTML][HTML] Multi-region approach to free-boundary three-dimensional tokamak equilibria and resistive wall instabilities

NM Ferraro, SC Jardin, LL Lao, MS Shephard… - Physics of …, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
Free-boundary 3D tokamak equilibria and resistive wall instabilities are calculated using a
new resistive wall model in the two-fluid M3D-C1 code. In this model, the resistive wall and …

Vertical forces during vertical displacement events in an ITER plasma and the role of halo currents

CF Clauser, SC Jardin, NM Ferraro - Nuclear Fusion, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Vertical displacement events (VDEs) can occur in elongated tokamaks causing large
currents to flow in the vessel and other adjacent metallic structures. To better understand the …

Disruption mitigation by injection of small quantities of noble gas in ASDEX Upgrade

G Pautasso, M Bernert, M Dibon, B Duval… - Plasma Physics and …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
The most recent experiments of disruption mitigation by massive gas injection in ASDEX
Upgrade have concentrated on small—relatively to the past—quantities of noble gas …

Experiments and non-linear MHD simulations of hot vertical displacement events in ASDEX-Upgrade

N Schwarz, FJ Artola, M Hoelzl, M Bernert… - Plasma Physics and …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Hot vertical displacement events (VDEs) are one of the worst case scenarios for high-current
tokamaks as they are associated with large heat loads and electro-magnetic forces. Non …

Integrated tokamak modeling: when physics informs engineering and research planning

FM Poli - Physics of Plasmas, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
Modeling tokamaks enables a deeper understanding of how to run and control our
experiments and how to design stable and reliable reactors. We model tokamaks to …

Effects of asymmetries in computations of forced vertical displacement events

CR Sovinec, KJ Bunkers - Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Visco-resistive magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) computations with the NIMROD code (Sovinec
CR et al 2004 J. Comput. Phys. 195 355) are applied to a model tokamak configuration that …

[HTML][HTML] Reassessing energy deposition for the ITER 5 MA vertical displacement event with an improved DINA model

J Coburn, M Lehnen, RA Pitts, E Thorén, K Ibano… - Nuclear Materials and …, 2021 - Elsevier
The beryllium (Be) main chamber wall interaction during a 5 MA/1.8 T upward, unmitigated
VDE scenario, first analysed in [J. Coburn et al., Phys. Scr. T171 (2020) 014076] for ITER …

Electromagnetic disruption analysis in IGNITOR

F Villone, G Ramogida, G Rubinacci - Fusion Engineering and Design, 2015 - Elsevier
The present paper reports a detailed analysis of disruptions in the IGNITOR tokamak. Two
different numerical models are used (one axisymmetric, the other three-dimensional), in …