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Heat and Particle Deposition on the Plasma-Facing Components
Podolník, Aleš ; Pánek, Radomír ; Komm, Michael ; Dejarnac, Renaud ; Gunn, J. P.
The interaction of plasma with plasma-facing components (PFCs) in tokamaks is of increasing interest because of implications for ITER and next-step devices. The heat and particle fluxes interacting with solid objects can be studied by means of particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations. The aim of this work is to use the existing family of PIC codes SPICE to simulate the heat and particle flux distribution on PFCs. The output of the simulations is then used in new heat equation solver, which calculates the temperature of the PFCs. This solver provides us a testbed for the parallel sparse matrix code development as well as for the complex application aimed at study of the melting of tiles.
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Design and Preliminary Results of the COMPASS Power Supplies Filters
Havlíček, Josef ; Zajac, Jaromír
The COMPASS tokamak uses rectifying thyristor converters as Power Supplies for the major slow coils circuits. 24-pulse thyristor converter is used for Toroidal Field circuit and 12-pulse converters are used for Magnetizing, Equilibrium and Shaping Field circuits. A noise generated by the switching of the converters negatively influences diagnostics measuring the plasma. The article describes design phase and some preliminary results of the filters for the Power Supplies
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New Detection System for Fast Density Measurements Using the Lithium Beam on the COMPASS Tokamak
Háček, Pavel ; Berta, M. ; Stöckel, Jan ; Weinzettl, Vladimír ; Anda, G. ; Bencze, A. ; Zoletnik, S.
The lithium beam diagnostic at COMPASS is designed for measurements of the edge plasma density profile and fluctuations and edge plasma current fluctuations. The principle of the diagnostic is detection of light coming from collisionally excited Li atoms — beam emission spectroscopy (BES) - and a direct detection of the ionized part of the beam (atomic beam probe — ABP). For slow density measurements a charged coupled device (CCD) camera has been installed and is already working. For fast twodimensional density profile and density fluctuation measurements an array of avalanche photodiode detectors (APDs) will be used. The two-dimensional resolution of the measurement will be possible using fast poloidal deflection and chopping of the beam. Apart from routine density profile measurement, the diagnostic will be capable of investigating the turbulent structures in the edge plasma by cross-correlating the signals coming from poloidally deflected virtual beams.
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Observation of Sawtooth Oscillations in the COMPASS Tokamak
Imríšek, Martin ; Havlíček, Josef ; Weinzettl, Vladimír ; Mlynář, Jan
The sawtooth instability in tokamak plasmas results in periodic relaxations of the core plasma density and temperature. The physics of sawtooth is still not fully understood. It is predicted that fusion-born alpha particles will lead to long sawteeth. However, longer sawteeth can seed other instabilities which cause further degradation of plasma confinement. This paper provides brief introduction into sawtooth physics and observations of sawtooth instability in COMPASS. Furthermore, evidence of triggering transition to high confinement regime by sawtooth crash is presented
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Observation and Prediction of Runaway Electrons in the COMPASS Tokamak
Papřok, R. ; Krlín, Ladislav ; Stöckel, Jan
In this paper we present new measurements of HXR radiation from the COMPASS tokamak by the use of scintillation detector, 21-pinhole CdTe semiconductor detector. This radiation is caused by the presence of highly energetic runaway electrons and in the case of Neutral Beam Injection by fusion products. We also present direct runaway electrons measurements by Cherenkov detector. We present a theoretical prediction of runaway production based on theoretical formula and experimental data from Thomson scattering and compare it with a simpler experimental method based on peak counting.
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First measurements with U-probe on the COMPASS tokamak
Kovařík, Karel ; Ďuran, Ivan ; Stöckel, Jan ; Seidl, Jakub ; Šesták, David ; Brotánková, J. ; Spolaore, M. ; Martines, E. ; Vianello, N.
A complex electrostatic-magnetic probe diagnostics, baptized as ‘U-probe’, has been installed on COMPASS tokamak recently. Probe composes of two identical towers. Each tower houses 3 radially spaced sets of 3D coils, triple probe and rake probe – array of six Langmuir probes. The U-probe measures electric and magnetic properties of the filamentary structures in the edge plasma, particularly the floating potential profile and local magnetic field within the plasma filaments. Contribution presents first tests and results obtained.
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Infrared Thermography on the COMPASS Tokamak
Vondráček, Petr ; Horáček, Jan ; Cahyna, Pavel ; Pánek, Radomír ; Uličný, J.
This contribution describes a new slow infrared camera obtained by the COMPASS tokamak at IPP Prague. We focus on the camera limitations affecting the experimental data (temporal and spatial smoothing, time shift). Data time deconvolution used to correct the effect of the long response time of the camera detector is described. The second part of the contribution is devoted to the physic basis for the design of a new fast IR camera system planned for installation in COMPASS during the next year.
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