Overview of physics studies on ASDEX Upgrade
Review article, 2019

The ASDEX Upgrade (AUG) programme, jointly run with the EUROfusion MST1 task force, continues to significantly enhance the physics base of ITER and DEMO. Here, the full tungsten wall is a key asset for extrapolating to future devices. The high overall heating power, flexible heating mix and comprehensive diagnostic set allows studies ranging from mimicking the scrape-off-layer and divertor conditions of ITER and DEMO at high density to fully non-inductive operation (q 95 = 5.5, ) at low density. Higher installed electron cyclotron resonance heating power 6 MW, new diagnostics and improved analysis techniques have further enhanced the capabilities of AUG. Stable high-density H-modes with MW m-1 with fully detached strike-points have been demonstrated. The ballooning instability close to the separatrix has been identified as a potential cause leading to the H-mode density limit and is also found to play an important role for the access to small edge-localized modes (ELMs). Density limit disruptions have been successfully avoided using a path-oriented approach to disruption handling and progress has been made in understanding the dissipation and avoidance of runaway electron beams. ELM suppression with resonant magnetic perturbations is now routinely achieved reaching transiently . This gives new insight into the field penetration physics, in particular with respect to plasma flows. Modelling agrees well with plasma response measurements and a helically localised ballooning structure observed prior to the ELM is evidence for the changed edge stability due to the magnetic perturbations. The impact of 3D perturbations on heat load patterns and fast-ion losses have been further elaborated. Progress has also been made in understanding the ELM cycle itself. Here, new fast measurements of and E r allow for inter ELM transport analysis confirming that E r is dominated by the diamagnetic term even for fast timescales. New analysis techniques allow detailed comparison of the ELM crash and are in good agreement with nonlinear MHD modelling. The observation of accelerated ions during the ELM crash can be seen as evidence for the reconnection during the ELM. As type-I ELMs (even mitigated) are likely not a viable operational regime in DEMO studies of 'natural' no ELM regimes have been extended. Stable I-modes up to have been characterised using -feedback. Core physics has been advanced by more detailed characterisation of the turbulence with new measurements such as the eddy tilt angle - measured for the first time - or the cross-phase angle of and fluctuations. These new data put strong constraints on gyro-kinetic turbulence modelling. In addition, carefully executed studies in different main species (H, D and He) and with different heating mixes highlight the importance of the collisional energy exchange for interpreting energy confinement. A new regime with a hollow profile now gives access to regimes mimicking aspects of burning plasma conditions and lead to nonlinear interactions of energetic particle modes despite the sub-Alfvénic beam energy. This will help to validate the fast-ion codes for predicting ITER and DEMO.

ITER

DEMO

nuclear fusion

magnetic confinement

tokamak physics

Author

H.F. Meyer

United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority

C. Angioni

Max Planck Society

C.G. Albert

Max Planck Society

N. Arden

Max Planck Society

R. Arredondo Parra

Max Planck Society

O. Asunta

Aalto University

M. De Baar

Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research (DIFFER)

M. Balden

Max Planck Society

V. Bandaru

Max Planck Society

K. Behler

Max Planck Society

A. Bergmann

Max Planck Society

J. Bernardo

Instituto Superior Tecnico

M. Bernert

Max Planck Society

A. Biancalani

Max Planck Society

R. Bilato

Max Planck Society

G. Birkenmeier

Max Planck Society

T.C. Blanken

Eindhoven University of Technology

V. Bobkov

Max Planck Society

A. Bock

Max Planck Society

T. Bolzonella

Consorzio Rfx

A. Bortolon

Princeton University

B. Böswirth

Max Planck Society

C. Bottereau

The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)

A. Bottino

Max Planck Society

H. Van Den Brand

Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research (DIFFER)

S. Brezinsek

Forschungszentrum Jülich

D. Brida

Max Planck Society

F. Brochard

University of Lorraine

C. Bruhn

Max Planck Society

J. Buchanan

United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority

A. Buhler

Max Planck Society

A. Burckhart

Max Planck Society

Y. Camenen

Physique des Interactions Ioniques et Moleculaires

D. Carlton

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M. Carr

United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority

D. Carralero

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C. Castaldo

ENEA

M. Cavedon

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C. Cazzaniga

Consorzio Rfx

S. Ceccuzzi

ENEA

C. Challis

United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority

A. V. Chankin

Max Planck Society

S. Chapman

The University of Warwick

C. Cianfarani

ENEA

F. Clairet

The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)

S. Coda

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL)

R. Coelho

Instituto Superior Tecnico

J.W. Coenen

Forschungszentrum Jülich

L. Colas

The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)

G.D. Conway

Max Planck Society

S. Costea

University of Innsbruck

D. Coster

Max Planck Society

T.B. Cote

University of Wisconsin Madison

A. Creely

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

G. Croci

Istituto Di Fisica Del Plasma Piero Caldirola, Milan

G. Cseh

Hungarian Academy of Sciences

A. Czarnecka

Instytut Problemow Jadrowyc

I. Cziegler

University of York

O. D'Arcangelo

ENEA

P. David

Max Planck Society

C. Day

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

R. Delogu

Istituto Di Fisica Del Plasma Piero Caldirola, Milan

P. De Marné

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S.S. Denk

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P. Denner

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M. Dibon

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A. Di Siena

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D. Douai

The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)

A. Drenik

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B. Duval

Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL)

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K. Engelhardt

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Hungarian Academy of Sciences

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B. Esposito

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E. Fable

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M. Faitsch

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Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL)

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Instituto Superior Tecnico

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Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)

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Y. Gao

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S. Garavaglia

Istituto Di Fisica Del Plasma Piero Caldirola, Milan

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Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)

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University of Seville

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Istituto Di Fisica Del Plasma Piero Caldirola, Milan

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Aalto University

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Vienna University of Technology

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University of Wisconsin Madison

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École polytechnique

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Technische Universität Graz

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Budapest University of Technology and Economics

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Technische Universität Graz

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Vienna University of Technology

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University of York

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University of California

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Technical University of Denmark (DTU)

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Polytechnic University of Turin

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United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority

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Princeton University

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Eindhoven University of Technology

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Istituto Di Fisica Del Plasma Piero Caldirola, Milan

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Technische Universität Graz

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University College Cork

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Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL)

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Max Planck Society

O. Meyer

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Polytechnic University of Turin

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Technical University of Denmark (DTU)

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Technical University of Denmark (DTU)

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Max Planck Society

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University of Milano-Bicocca

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Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL)

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Chalmers, Space, Earth and Environment, Astronomy and Plasmaphysics

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Technical University of Denmark (DTU)

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Aalto University

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Royal Military Academy

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Technical University of Denmark (DTU)

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Laboratorio Nacional de Fusion

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Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)

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Nuclear Fusion

0029-5515 (ISSN) 1741-4326 (eISSN)

Vol. 59 11 112014

Subject Categories

Energy Engineering

Other Physics Topics

Fusion, Plasma and Space Physics

DOI

10.1088/1741-4326/ab18b8

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