A data acquisition system for real-time magnetic equilibrium reconstruction on ASDEX Upgrade and its application to NTM stabilization experiments.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Giannone, L.; Reich, M.; Maraschek, M.; Poli, E.; Rapson, C.; Barrera, L.; McDermott, R.; Mlynek, A.; Ruan, Q.; Treutterer, W.; Wenzel, L.; Bock, A.; Conway, G.; Fischer, R.; Fuchs, J.C.; Lackner, K.; McCarthy, P.J.; Preuss, R.; Rampp, M.; Schuhbeck, K.H.
- Source
- Fusion Engineering & Design. Dec2013, Vol. 88 Issue 12, p3299-3311. 13p.
- Subject
- *DATA acquisition systems
*MAGNETIC equivalence
*NUCLEAR physics experiments
*CONSTRAINTS (Physics)
*FIELD coils in electric generators
*PARAMETER estimation
*MAGNETIC fields
- Language
- ISSN
- 0920-3796
Highlights: [•] Calculation of real-time tokamak magnetic equilibrium with constraints from magnetic probes. [•] Parallel equilibrium calculation including the Motional Stark Effect diagnostic as additional constraints. [•] Feedback control of mirror for pre-emptive ECCD stabilization of neo-classical tearing modes. [•] Probe calibration by individual poloidal field coil currents. [•] Optimized parameters for poloidal field coil location, integrator gains and the location and orientation of magnetic probes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]