MHD stability, operational limits and disruptions

TC Hender, JC Wesley, J Bialek, A Bondeson… - Nuclear …, 2007 - iopscience.iop.org
Progress in the area of MHD stability and disruptions, since the publication of the 1999 ITER
Physics Basis document (1999 Nucl. Fusion 39 2137–2664), is reviewed. Recent theoretical …

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 …

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 …

Inter-code comparison benchmark between DINA and TSC for ITER disruption modelling

S Miyamoto, A Isayama, I Bandyopadhyay… - Nuclear …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Results of 2D disruption modelling for validation of benchmark ITER scenarios using two
established codes—DINA and TSC, are compared. Although the simulation models …

[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 …

Modelling of the toroidal asymmetry of poloidal halo currents in conducting structures

N Pomphrey, JM Bialek, W Park - Nuclear Fusion, 1998 - iopscience.iop.org
During plasma disruptions, substantial toroidal and poloidal eddy currents are generated in
the vacuum vessel and other plasma facing conducting structures. Eddy currents that …

First wall energy deposition during vertical displacement events on ITER

J Coburn, E Thoren, RA Pitts, H Anand… - Physica …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The beryllium (Be) first wall energy deposition and melt damage profiles resulting from the
current quench phase of an unmitigated, 5 MA/1.8 T upward vertical displacement event for …

Toroidal modeling of runaway electron loss due to 3D fields in ITER

Y Liu, K Aleynikova, C Paz-Soldan, P Aleynikov… - Nuclear …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Mitigation of runaway electrons (REs) by three-dimensional (3D) magnetic field
perturbations is numerically investigated for the ITER 15 MA baseline D–T scenario, utilizing …

Comparing DINA code simulations with TCV experimental plasma equilibrium responses

RR Khayrutdinov, JB Lister, VE Lukash… - Plasma Physics and …, 2001 - iopscience.iop.org
The DINA nonlinear time-dependent simulation code has been validated against an
extensive set of plasma equilibrium response experiments carried out on the TCV tokamak …

Hot VDE investigation of the negative triangularity plasmas based on HL-2M tokamak

L Xue, GY Zheng, XR Duan, YQ Liu, GT Hoang… - Fusion Engineering and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Heating loads on the divertor has been the major issue for the tokamak operation. The
innovative negative triangularity plasmas are considered to be of the favorable property for …