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KFM: Fachverband Kristalline Festkörper und deren Mikrostruktur

KFM 15: Crystal Structure Defects / Real Structure / Microstructure

KFM 15.2: Vortrag

Donnerstag, 20. März 2025, 10:00–10:15, H9

Numerical analyses and loss tangent measurements for the W7-X ECRH gyrotron diamond output windows — •Gaetano Aiello¹, Andreas Meier¹, Heinrich Peter Laqua², Theo Scherer¹, Sabine Schreck¹, and Dirk Strauss¹ — ¹KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany — ²IPP, Greifswald, Germany

The 140 GHz 1 MW gyrotron for the electron cyclotron resonance heating (ECRH) system at the stellarator Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) is being upgraded to 1.5 MW continuous wave operation to increase the total heating power for achieving operating regimes with high plasma beta and low collisionality. The gyrotron features a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) polycrystalline diamond window with an aperture of 88 mm and a disk of 1.8 mm thickness and 106 mm diameter. In this work, numerical analyses of the window are shown with loss tangent values provided by experimental measurements on 25 bare diamond disks. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) conjugated heat transfer and structural analyses were carried out to check the window performance at 1.5 MW operation, when cooled by water and silicon oil Dow Corning 200(R) 5cSt.

Keywords: Diamond; Window; FEM analyses; CFD analyses; Loss tangent