Inside thermonuclear fusion devices, plasma facing components are subject to intense heat fluxes. The WEST tokamak has water cooled plasma facing components to limit their heating. Calorimetric measurement on these components allows for the measurement of the power received by each component. This makes it possible to control the plasma position or the additional plasma heating in function of the power distribution.
During this PhD, a simulation of plasma control using calorimetry will be performed, simulating the heat fluxes received by the components as a function of the plasma position and the associated calorimetric response. In-situ calorimetric measurements will be carried out on the components at the top and bottom of the machine during dedicated plasma experiments to refine the simulations and the control of the WEST plasma position based on calorimetric measurements will finally be implemented and validated during dedicated experiments, for plasma-facing components protection and plasma physics purposes.