Gautham Gopakumar Thamarassery
Structural and Thermal Analysis of the Port Thermal Shield of the Divertor Tokamak Test (DTT).
Rel. Roberto Bonifetto, Giulio Ventura, Giorgio Zavarise, Mauro Corrado. Politecnico di Torino, Master of science program in Mechanical Engineering, 2026
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Abstract
The Divertor Tokamak Test (DTT) facility, under construction at ENEA Frascati, is an Italian tokamak project conceived to address the plasma exhaust challenge, a key obstacle identified in the European Fusion Roadmap toward the realisation of DEMO. Among its critical subsystems, the Thermal Shield (THS) is a barrier against radiative and conductive heat transfer from the warm tokamak components to the superconducting magnet system operating at 4.5 K. This thesis presents a thermo-mechanical finite element analysis of the DTT Port Thermal Shield (PTS), for structural integrity and to inform design optimisation. The state-of-the-art, ITER and JT-60SA thermal shields are reviewed, whose design philosophies and analytical strategies provide the methodological foundation for the present work.
A computationally efficient FE model was developed in ANSYS Mechanical, informed by prior analyses of the DTT Vacuum Vessel Thermal Shield
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