Speaker
Mr
Mirko Wensing
(EPFL - Swiss Plasma Center)
Description
Heat exhaust is one of the major issues in fusion research. The TCV tokamak has a large flexibility in the magnetic geometry of the plasma, allowing alternative divertor configuration studies in order to mitigate the tremendous heat and particle fluxes on the plasma-facing components. The envisioned divertor upgrade of TCV will introduce baffles to the divertor, which were predicted to increase the neutral compression by one order of magnitude compared to the unbaffled case. This is believed to be essential for high performance operation. Predictions based on the SOLPS-ITER code package will be presented that compare the properties of both divertor configurations in the light of atomic and molecular neutral distribution.
Authors
Mr
Mirko Wensing
(EPFL - Swiss Plasma Center)
Dr
Basil Duval
(EPFL - Swiss Plasma Center)
Dr
Holger Reimerdes
(EPFL - Swiss Plasma Center)
Prof.
Christian Theiler
(EPFL - Swiss Plasma Center)
Mr
Kevin Verhaegh
(University of York - Plasma Institute, York, United Kingdom,)
