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COMSOL Multiphysics® has been used to predict the magnetic fields, eddy current, lorenz forces and stresses during a disruption for the new Advanced Outer Divertor for the Alcator C-Mod tokamak. A tokamak is used to study magnetic confinement of plasma for fusion, and a disruption occurs when the plasma decays, rapidly losing all of its current. COMSOL has been used to recreate the fields generated both by the plasma and coils during a disruption to match an actual discharge on Alcator C-Mod and thus the currents and forces induced in the new Advanced Outer Divertor.

COMSOL's ability to match field measurements from a real discharge, as well as re-create the spatially and time varying fields in C-Mod allow us to more accurately predict the loads and stresses the divertor needs to be designed for and modify the design to reflect these requirements.