Authors
E. Ricardo, F. da Silva, Stéphane Heuraux, A. Silva, J. Santos
- Bibliographic Reference
- E. Ricardo, F. da Silva, Stéphane Heuraux, A. Silva, J. Santos. Simulation and data processing techniques to design optimized PPR systems on plasma fusion devices. Computer Physics Communications, 2024, 294, pp.108945. ⟨10.1016/j.cpc.2023.108945⟩. ⟨hal-04237328⟩
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2023.108945
- European Project Title
- EUROfusion
- Funding
- ['“Fundac¸ão para a Ciência e a Tecnologia” through projects UIDB/50010/2020 and UIDP/50010/2020', 'This work has been carried out within the framework of the EUROfusion Consortium, funded by the European Unionvia the Euratom Research and Training Programme (Grant Agreement No. 101052200—EUROfusion).']
- HAL Collection
- ['CNRS - Centre national de la recherche scientifique', 'OpenAIRE', 'Université de Lorraine', 'Institut de Chimie du CNRS', 'Institut Jean Lamour', 'IJL - équipe plasmas de fusion']
- HAL Identifier
- 4237328
- Institution
- ['Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa', 'Institut de Chimie - CNRS Chimie', 'Université de Lorraine']
- Laboratory
- ['Instituto de Plasmas e Fusão Nuclear [Lisboa]', 'Institut Jean Lamour']
- Published in
- France
Table of Contents
- Introduction 3
- Plasma position reflectometry systems 4
- The basics of plasma position reflectometry 4
- The reflectometer set-up and detection schemes 5
- The position error and the amplitude of the detected signal 7
- Notation to describe multi reflectometers systems 9
- Description of systems of multiple reflectometers 9
- Acquisition and data processing in PPR systems 11
- Multiple configurations of reflectometers 12
- Simulation of multi reflectometers systems 13
- The REFMUL* family of FDTD codes for reflectometry simulation 13
- Reflectometry simulation with FDTD codes 13
- The REFMUL* family of codes and the simulation setup 14
- Formulation of a high-level framework for multi-reflectometry simulations 15
- The need of a high-level framework for reflectometry simulation 15
- Formulation of a high-level framework for reflectometry simulations 15
- Identification of the main variables of the problem 17
- Automating the simulations 18
- Dependence of the problem variables on the main variables 18
- Defining the input data and generating the simulation lists 19
- Simulation scripts 20
- Producing realistic antenna setup and plasma models 21
- Simplifying the input data definition 23
- Automation of the data analysis for PPR systems 25
- Automation of the data analysis 25
- Automation of the signal time lag detection 26
- Automation of the IQ detection technique 27
- Testing the principle in a simulation with mirror 28
- Simulation with the plasma 30
- Comparison of the results with the manual data analysis 31
- Conclusions 33
- Signal injection 36
- Signal detection 37
- Baseline scenario density map 38
- Simulated models 39
- Fit parameters of the waveguide propagation function 39