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Validation of the Fenix ASDEX Upgrade flight simulator
- Source :
- Fusion Engineering and Design
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Abstract
- Fenix [1] , [2] is the ASDEX Upgrade (AUG) flight simulator based on the 1-D transport code ASTRA coupled with the 2-D equilibrium solver [ 3 ] SPIDER and Simulink (simulation platform integrated with MATLAB). Fenix is designed to simulate the entire discharge from the ramp up of the poloidal field (PF) coils, through the plasma phase, finishing with the ramp down of the PF coils. Currently, controllers for position, shape, fuelling and heating are implemented according to the AUG control system setup. Also, a model of the poloidal field coils and the models of their corresponding power supplies are provided, as well as basic models of heating actuators such as electron cyclotron resonant heating (ECRH), neutral beam injection (NBI) and fuelling using either pellets or gas. As a next step, the Fenix simulations have to be validated against an already existing database of the discharges. This article compares the behaviour of Fenix simulations against various AUG AUGAUGAUG discharge measurements. It shows that it succeeds in its goal as a comprehensive tokamak discharge simulator.
- Subjects :
- Physics
Tokamak
Mechanical Engineering
Nuclear engineering
Cyclotron
ASTRA
01 natural sciences
7. Clean energy
Flight simulator
Neutral beam injection
010305 fluids & plasmas
law.invention
Nuclear Energy and Engineering
ASDEX Upgrade
law
Control system
0103 physical sciences
General Materials Science
010306 general physics
MATLAB
computer
Civil and Structural Engineering
computer.programming_language
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09203796
- Volume :
- 163
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Fusion Engineering and Design
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....c107464cd63a32a481bbd1cd3bd015fc
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fusengdes.2020.112126