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A New Deduction Method of Heat Flux Evolution From Thermal Probe Data
Author(s) -
Matsuura H.,
Nagaoka K.,
Morisaki T.,
Masuzaki S.,
Osakabe M.,
Tanaka H.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
contributions to plasma physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1521-3986
pISSN - 0863-1042
DOI - 10.1002/ctpp.201410080
Subject(s) - divertor , heat flux , thermal , flux (metallurgy) , mechanics , materials science , plasma , fusion , thermodynamics , thermal diffusivity , diffusion , heat transfer , nuclear engineering , physics , nuclear physics , tokamak , linguistics , philosophy , engineering , metallurgy
Measurement and control of divertor heat flux are a crucial issue for realization of fusion burning plasma. However, time‐dependent heat flux is often difficult to be estimated experimentally, because thermal diffusion process in thermal probe tips takes time longer than the discharge duration of present experiments. A new reconstruction method for time dependent heat flux from the measurement of the thermal probe tip temperature is proposed in this paper. The heat flux of the Large Helical Device divertor leg was analyzed by the proposed method as the function of the time for the first time. This indicates that heat flux measurement with thermal probes would become a monitoring tools even for the future fusion devices. (© 2014 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)