Model-Based Real-Time Surface Heat Flux And Temperature Estimation For The Diii-D Tokamak
NUCLEAR FUSION(2021)
Abstract
A control-oriented model for monitoring of wall power flux densities on the DIII-D tokamak has been successfully implemented and validated experimentally. Future reactors will have to withstand severe steady state high heat flux loads on plasma-facing components (PFCs). Due to the difficulty of directly-measuring local heat fluxes on these components, monitoring and protection of PFCs during the plasma discharge can benefit from simplified physics-based real-time functional models to estimate and guide heat load control. As a first step into the development, a control-oriented model for monitoring of wall power flux densities and temperatures on DIII-D tokamak has been successfully implemented. The paper discusses the experimental demonstration and comparison of the 2D model-based wall heat flux algorithm on the DIII-D inner wall limiter (IWL) against infra-red (IR) camera heat flux measurements for limited plasma configurations. The paper also reports on the benchmarking of the field line tracing environment, SMITER, developed at ITER organization on DIII-D tokamak against experimental IR diagnostic data and the derivation of the component shaping weighting factors for the 2D model-based approach. Extension of the model-based approach for surface temperature estimation on the DIII-D IWL is also presented.
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Key words
plasma-facing components, heat flux estimation, field line tracing, real-time, scrape-off layer
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