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Overview of progress in European medium sized tokamaks towards an integrated plasma-edge/wall solution

Meyer, H.; Eich, T.; Beurskens, M.; Coda, S.; Hakola, A.; Martin, P.; Adamek, J.; Agostini, M.; Aguiam, D.; Ahn, J.; Aho-Mantila, L.; Akers, R.; Albanese, R.; Aledda, R.; Alessi, E.; Allan, S.; Alves, D.; Ambrosino, R.; Amicucci, L.; Anand, H.; Anastassiou, G.; Andrèbe, Y.; Angioni, C.; Apruzzese, G.; Ariola, M.; Arnichand, H.; Arter, W.; Baciero, A.; Barnes, M.; Barrera, L.; Behn, R.; Bencze, A.; Bernardo, J.; Bernert, M.; Bettini, P.; Bilková, P.; Bin, W.; Birkenmeier, G.; Bizarro, J.P.S.; Blanchard, P.; Blanken, T.; Bluteau, M.; Bobkov, V.; Bogar, O.; Böhm, P.; Bolzonella, T.; Boncagni, L.; Botrugno, A.; Bottereau, C.; Bouquey, F.; Bourdelle, C.; Brémond, S.; Brezinsek, S.; Brida, D.; Brochard, F.; Buchanan, J.; Bufferand, H.; Buratti, P.; Cahyna, P.; Calabrò, G.; Camenen, Y.; Caniello, R.; Cannas, B.; Canton, A.; Cardinali, A.; Carnevale, D.; Carr, M.; Carralero, D.; Carvalho, P.; Casali, L.; Castaldo, C.; Castejón, F.; Castro, R.; Causa, F.; Cavazzana, R.; Cavedon, M.; Cecconello,...

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Authors

H. Meyer

T. Eich

M. Beurskens

S. Coda

A. Hakola

P. Martin

J. Adamek

M. Agostini

D. Aguiam

J. Ahn

L. Aho-Mantila

R. Akers

R. Albanese

R. Aledda

E. Alessi

S. Allan

D. Alves

R. Ambrosino

L. Amicucci

H. Anand

G. Anastassiou

Y. Andrèbe

C. Angioni

G. Apruzzese

M. Ariola

H. Arnichand

W. Arter

A. Baciero

M. Barnes

L. Barrera

R. Behn

A. Bencze

J. Bernardo

M. Bernert

P. Bettini

P. Bilková

W. Bin

G. Birkenmeier

J.P.S. Bizarro

P. Blanchard

T. Blanken

M. Bluteau

V. Bobkov

O. Bogar

P. Böhm

T. Bolzonella

L. Boncagni

A. Botrugno

C. Bottereau

F. Bouquey

C. Bourdelle

S. Brémond

S. Brezinsek

D. Brida

F. Brochard

J. Buchanan

H. Bufferand

P. Buratti

P. Cahyna

G. Calabrò

Y. Camenen

R. Caniello

B. Cannas

A. Canton

A. Cardinali

D. Carnevale

M. Carr

D. Carralero

P. Carvalho

L. Casali

C. Castaldo

F. Castejón

R. Castro

F. Causa

R. Cavazzana

M. Cavedon

M. Cecconello

S. Ceccuzzi

R. Cesario

C.D. Challis

I.T. Chapman

S. Chapman

M. Chernyshova

D. Choi

C. Cianfarani

G. Ciraolo

J. Citrin

F. Clairet

I. Classen

R. Coelho

J.W. Coenen

L. Colas

G. Conway

Y. Corre

S. Costea

F. Crisanti

N. Cruz

G. Cseh

A. Czarnecka

O. D’Arcangelo

M. De Angeli

G. De Masi

G. De Temmerman

G. De Tommasi

J. Decker

R.S. Delogu

R. Dendy

P. Denner

C. Di Troia

M. Dimitrova

R. D’Inca

V. Dorić

D. Douai

A. Drenik

B. Dudson

D. Dunai

M. Dunne

B.P. Duval

L. Easy

S. Elmore

B. Erdös

B. Esposito

E. Fable

M. Faitsch

A. Fanni

N. Fedorczak

F. Felici

J. Ferreira

O. Février

O. Ficker

S. Fietz

L. Figini

A. Figueiredo

A. Fil

G. Fishpool

M. Fitzgerald

M. Fontana

O. Ford

L. Frassinetti

R. Fridström

D. Frigione

G. Fuchert

C. Fuchs

M. Furno Palumbo

S. Futatani

L. Gabellieri

K. Gałązka

J. Galdon-Quiroga

S. Galeani

D. Gallart

A. Gallo

C. Galperti

Y. Gao

S. Garavaglia

J. Garcia

A. Garcia-Carrasco

J. Garcia-Lopez

M. Garcia-Munoz

J.-L. Gardarein

L. Garzotti

J. Gaspar

E. Gauthier

P. Geelen

B. Geiger

P. Ghendrih

F. Ghezzi

L. Giacomelli

L. Giannone

E. Giovannozzi

C. Giroud

C. Gleason González

M. Gobbin

T.P. Goodman

G. Gorini

M. Gospodarczyk

G. Granucci

M. Gruber

A. Gude

L. Guimarais

R. Guirlet

J. Gunn

P. Hacek

S. Hacquin

S. Hall

C. Ham

T. Happel

J. Harrison

D. Harting

V. Hauer

E. Havlickova

T. Hellsten

W. Helou

S. Henderson

P. Hennequin

M. Heyn

B. Hnat

M. Hölzl

D. Hogeweij

C. Honoré

C. Hopf

J. Horáček

G. Hornung

L. Horváth

Z. Huang

A. Huber

J. Igitkhanov

V. Igochine

M. Imrisek

P. Innocente

C. Ionita-Schrittwieser

H. Isliker

I. Ivanova-Stanik

A.S. Jacobsen

P. Jacquet

M. Jakubowski

A. Jardin

F. Jaulmes

F. Jenko

T. Jensen

O. Jeppe Miki Busk

M. Jessen

E. Joffrin

O. Jones

T. Jonsson

A. Kallenbach

N. Kallinikos

S. Kálvin

A. Kappatou

J. Karhunen

A. Karpushov

S. Kasilov

G. Kasprowicz

A. Kendl

W. Kernbichler

D. Kim

A. Kirk

S. Kjer

I. Klimek

G. Kocsis

D. Kogut

M. Komm

S.B. Korsholm

H.R. Koslowski

M. Koubiti

J. Kovacic

K. Kovarik

N. Krawczyk

J. Krbec

K. Krieger

A. Krivska

R. Kube

O. Kudlacek

T. Kurki-Suonio

B. Labit

F.M. Laggner

L. Laguardia

A. Lahtinen

P. Lalousis

P. Lang

P. Lauber

N. Lazányi

A. Lazaros

H.B. Le

A. Lebschy

J. Leddy

L. Lefévre

M. Lehnen

F. Leipold

A. Lessig

M. Leyland

L. Li

Y. Liang

B. Lipschultz

Y.Q. Liu

T. Loarer

A. Loarte

T. Loewenhoff

B. Lomanowski

V.P. Loschiavo

T. Lunt

I. Lupelli

H. Lux

A. Lyssoivan

J. Madsen

P. Maget

C. Maggi

R. Maggiora

M.L. Magnussen

J. Mailloux

B. Maljaars

A. Malygin

P. Mantica

M. Mantsinen

M. Maraschek

B. Marchand

N. Marconato

C. Marini

M. Marinucci

T. Markovic

D. Marocco

L. Marrelli

Y. Martin

J.R. Martin Solis

A. Martitsch

S. Mastrostefano

M. Mattei

G. Matthews

M. Mavridis

M.-L. Mayoral

D. Mazon

P. McCarthy

R. McAdams

G. McArdle

K. McClements

R. McDermott

B. McMillan

G. Meisl

A. Merle

O. Meyer

D. Milanesio

F. Militello

I.G. Miron

K. Mitosinkova

J. Mlynar

A. Mlynek

D. Molina

P. Molina

I. Monakhov

J. Morales

D. Moreau

P. Morel

J.-M. Moret

A. Moro

D. Moulton

H.W. Müller

F. Nabais

E. Nardon

V. Naulin

A. Nemes-Czopf

F. Nespoli

R. Neu

A.H. Nielsen

S.K. Nielsen

V. Nikolaeva

S. Nimb

M. Nocente

R. Nouailletas

S. Nowak

M. Oberkofler

M. Oberparleiter

R. Ochoukov

T. Odstrčil

J. Olsen

J. Omotani

M.G. O’Mullane

F. Orain

N. Osterman

R. Paccagnella

S. Pamela

L. Pangione

M. Panjan

G. Papp

R. Papřok

V. Parail

F.I. Parra

A. Pau

G. Pautasso

S.-P. Pehkonen

A. Pereira

E. Perelli Cippo

V. Pericoli Ridolfini

M. Peterka

P. Petersson

V. Petrzilka

P. Piovesan

C. Piron

A. Pironti

F. Pisano

T. Pisokas

R. Pitts

I. Ploumistakis

V. Plyusnin

G. Pokol

D. Poljak

P. Pölöskei

Z. Popovic

G. Pór

L. Porte

S. Potzel

I. Predebon

M. Preynas

G. Primc

G. Pucella

M.E. Puiatti

T. Pütterich

M. Rack

G. Ramogida

C. Rapson

J.Juul Rasmussen

J. Rasmussen

G.A. Rattá

S. Ratynskaia

G. Ravera

D. Réfy

M. Reich

H. Reimerdes

F. Reimold

M. Reinke

D. Reiser

M. Resnik

C. Reux

D. Ripamonti

D. Rittich

G. Riva

M. Rodriguez-Ramos

V. Rohde

J. Rosato

F. Ryter

S. Saarelma

R. Sabot

F. Saint-Laurent

M. Salewski

A. Salmi

D. Samaddar

L. Sanchis-Sanchez

J. Santos

O. Sauter

R. Scannell

M. Scheffer

M. Schneider

B. Schneider

P. Schneider

M. Schneller

R. Schrittwieser

M. Schubert

J. Schweinzer

J. Seidl

M. Sertoli

S. Šesnić

A. Shabbir

A. Shalpegin

B. Shanahan

S. Sharapov

U. Sheikh

G. Sias

B. Sieglin

C. Silva

A. Silva

M. Silva Fuglister

J. Simpson

A. Snicker

C. Sommariva

C. Sozzi

S. Spagnolo

G. Spizzo

M. Spolaore

T. Stange

M. Stejner Pedersen

I. Stepanov

J. Stober

P. Strand

A. Šušnjara

W. Suttrop

T. Szepesi

B. Tál

T. Tala

P. Tamain

G. Tardini

M. Tardocchi

A. Teplukhina

D. Terranova

D. Testa

C. Theiler

A. Thornton

P. Tolias

L. Tophøj

W. Treutterer

G.L. Trevisan

M. Tripsky

C. Tsironis

C. Tsui

O. Tudisco

A. Uccello

J. Urban

M. Valisa

P. Vallejos

M. Valovic

H. Van den Brand

B. Vanovac

S. Varoutis

S. Vartanian

J. Vega

G. Verdoolaege

K. Verhaegh

L. Vermare

N. Vianello

J. Vicente

E. Viezzer

L. Vignitchouk

W.A.J. Vijvers

F. Villone

B. Viola

L. Vlahos

I. Voitsekhovitch

P. Vondráček

N.M.T. Vu

D. Wagner

N. Walkden

N. Wang

T. Wauters

M. Weiland

V. Weinzettl

E. Westerhof

M. Wiesenberger

M. Willensdorfer

M. Wischmeier

I. Wodniak

E. Wolfrum

D. Yadykin

R. Zagórski

I. Zammuto

P. Zanca

R. Zaplotnik

P. Zestanakis

W. Zhang

S. Zoletnik

M. Zuin



Abstract

Integrating the plasma core performance with an edge and scrape-off layer (SOL) that leads to tolerable heat and particle loads on the wall is a major challenge. The new European medium size tokamak task force (EU-MST) coordinates research on ASDEX Upgrade (AUG), MAST and TCV. This multi-machine approach within EU-MST, covering a wide parameter range, is instrumental to progress in the field, as ITER and DEMO core/pedestal and SOL parameters are not achievable simultaneously in present day devices. A two prong approach is adopted. On the one hand, scenarios with tolerable transient heat and particle loads, including active edge localised mode (ELM) control are developed. On the other hand, divertor solutions including advanced magnetic configurations are studied. Considerable progress has been made on both approaches, in particular in the fields of: ELM control with resonant magnetic perturbations (RMP), small ELM regimes, detachment onset and control, as well as filamentary scrape-off-layer transport. For example full ELM suppression has now been achieved on AUG at low collisionality with n  =  2 RMP maintaining good confinement ${{H}_{\text{H}\left(98,\text{y}2\right)}}\approx 0.95$ . Advances have been made with respect to detachment onset and control. Studies in advanced divertor configurations (Snowflake, Super-X and X-point target divertor) shed new light on SOL physics. Cross field filamentary transport has been characterised in a wide parameter regime on AUG, MAST and TCV progressing the theoretical and experimental understanding crucial for predicting first wall loads in ITER and DEMO. Conditions in the SOL also play a crucial role for ELM stability and access to small ELM regimes.

Citation

Meyer, H., Eich, T., Beurskens, M., Coda, S., Hakola, A., Martin, P., …Zuin, M. (2017). Overview of progress in European medium sized tokamaks towards an integrated plasma-edge/wall solution. Nuclear Fusion, 57(10), Article 102014. https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/aa6084

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Jan 25, 2017
Online Publication Date Jun 28, 2017
Publication Date Jun 28, 2017
Deposit Date Aug 24, 2017
Publicly Available Date Aug 24, 2017
Journal Nuclear Fusion
Print ISSN 0029-5515
Electronic ISSN 1741-4326
Publisher IOP Publishing
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 57
Issue 10
Article Number 102014
DOI https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/aa6084

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