Seminar Details
2025-05-06 (14h) : Axisymmetric magnetic control in ST40
At Euler building (room A.002)
Speaker :
Benjamin Vincent (UCLouvain)
Abstract :
Tokamaks magnetically confine plasmas (i.e. ionised gas) up to temperatures where the nuclear fusion reaction is sustainable. The real-time operation of a tokamak relies on a Plasma Control System, which is responsible for data acquisition, pulse supervision and feedback control. The plasma current, position, and shape can be actuated by the poloidal field coils.
The talk will introduce the concept of tokamaks and magnetically confined plasmas. The axisymmetric magnetic control problems will be presented and illustrated in the context of the spherical tokamak ST40.