Published November 2005 | Version v1
Journal article

DIII-D integrated plasma control tools applied to next generation tokamaks

  • 1. General Atomics, P.O. Box 85608, San Diego, CA 92186-5608 (United States)
  • 2. Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, P.O. Box 451, Princeton, New Jersey 08543-0451 (United States)
  • 3. EURATOM/UKAEA Fusion Association, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, Oxfordshire OX14 3DB (United Kingdom)
  • 4. Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, CASIPP, P.O. Box 1126, Hefei 230031 (China)
  • 5. ITER Naka, 801-1 Mukouyama, Naka-machi, Naka-gun, Ibaraki-ken 31-0193 (Japan)
  • 6. Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon (Korea, Republic of)
  • 7. TRINITI Laboratory, Troitsk, Moscow-Region, Moscow (Russian Federation)
  • 8. D.V. Efremov Scientific Research Institute of Electrophysical Apparatus, 196641 St. Petersburg (Russian Federation)

Description

A complete software suite for integrated tokamak plasma control has been developed within the DIII-D program. The suite consists of software for real-time control of all aspects of the plasma, modeling, simulation and design tools for analysis and development of controllers, a flexible and modular architecture for implementation and testing of algorithms and many fully validated models. Many elements of the system have been applied to and implemented on NSTX and MAST. The DIII-D realtime plasma control system together with the integrated modeling and simulation suite have been selected for operational use by both the KSTAR and EAST tokamaks, and are also being used at General Atomics to investigate control issues for ITER

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.fusengdes.2005.06.256;
PII
S0920-3796(05)00289-9;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Fusion Engineering and Design
Journal Volume
74
Journal Issue
1-4
Journal Page Range
p. 645-649
ISSN
0920-3796
CODEN
FEDEEE

Conference

Title
23. symposium of fusion technology
Acronym
SOFT 23
Dates
20-24 Sep 2004
Place
Venice (Italy)

INIS

Country of Publication
Netherlands
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
37106337
Subject category
S70: PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER CODES; COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; CONTROL; CONTROL SYSTEMS; DESIGN; DOUBLET-3 DEVICE; IMPLEMENTATION; ITER TOKAMAK; MAST TOKAMAK; NSTX DEVICE; PLASMA; PLASMA SIMULATION; TESTING
Descriptors DEC
CLOSED PLASMA DEVICES; MATHEMATICAL LOGIC; SIMULATION; SPHEROMAK DEVICES; THERMONUCLEAR DEVICES; THERMONUCLEAR REACTORS; TOKAMAK DEVICES; TOKAMAK TYPE REACTORS

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Copyright
Copyright (c) 2005 Elsevier Science B.V., Amsterdam, The Netherlands, All rights reserved.