• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Towards Automated Magnetic Divertor Design for Optimal Heat Exhaust
  • Contributor: Blommaert, Maarten [Author]; Heumann, Holger [Author]; Baelmans, Martine [Author]; Gauger, Nicolas R. [Author]; Reiter, Detlev [Author]
  • Published: EDP Sciences, 2016
  • Published in: European series in applied and industrial mathematics / Proceedings and Surveys 53, 49 - 63 (2016). doi:10.1051/proc/201653004
  • Language: English
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1051/proc/201653004
  • ISSN: 2267-3059; 1270-900X
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  • Description: Avoiding excessive structure heat loads in future fusion tokamaks is regarded as one of the greatest design challenges. In this paper, we aim at developing a tool to study how the severe divertor heat loads can be mitigated by reconfiguring the magnetic confinement. For this purpose, a free boundary equilibrium code is integrated with a plasma edge transport code to work in an automated fashion. Next, a practical and efficient adjoint based sensitivity calculation is proposed to evaluate the sensitivities of the integrated code. The sensitivity calculation is finally applied to a realistic test case and compared with finite difference sensitivity calculations.
  • Access State: Open Access