Modeling of combined effects of divertor closure and advanced magnetic configuration on detachment in DIII-D by SOLPS

Si, Hang; Guo, Houyang Y.; Covele, Brent; Leonard, Anthony W.; Watkins, J. G.; Thomas, Dan; Ding, Rui

doi:10.1088/1741-4326/aab6c8

Modeling of combined effects of divertor closure and advanced magnetic configuration on detachment in DIII-D by SOLPS

Journal Article · Wed Apr 04 00:00:00 EDT 2018 · Nuclear Fusion

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/aab6c8· OSTI ID:1435649

Si, Hang ^[1]; Guo, Houyang Y. ^[2]; Covele, Brent ^[2]; ^[2]; Watkins, J. G. ^[3]; Thomas, Dan ^[2]; Ding, Rui ^[4]

Chinese Academy of Sciences, Anhui (China); General Atomics
General Atomics, San Diego, CA (United States)
Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Anhui (China)

One of the major challenges facing the design and operation of next-step high-power steady-state fusion devices is to develop a divertor solution for handling power exhaust, while ensuring acceptable divertor target plate erosion, which necessitates access to divertor detachment at relative low main plasma densities compatible with current drive and high plasma confinement. Detailed modeling with SOLPS is carried out to examine the effect of divertor closure on detachment with the normal single null divertor (SD) configuration, as well as one of the advanced divertor configurations, such as x-divertor (XD) respectively. The SOLPS modeling for a high confinement plasma in DIII-D finds that increasing divertor closure with SD reduces the upstream separatrix density at the onset of detachment from $$1.18\times {{10}^{19}}\,{{{\rm m}}^{-3}}$$ to $$0.88\times {{10}^{19}}\,{{{\rm m}}^{-3}}$$. Furthermore, coupling the divertor closure with XD further promotes the onset of divertor detachment at a still lower upstream separatrix density, down to the value of $$0.67\times {{10}^{19}}\,{{{\rm m}}^{-3}}$$, thus, showing that divertor closure and advanced magnetic configuration can work synergistically to facilitate divertor detachment.

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Research Organization:: General Atomics, San Diego, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: FC02-04ER54698

OSTI ID:: 1435649

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 22925529

Journal Information:: Nuclear Fusion, Journal Name: Nuclear Fusion Journal Issue: 5 Vol. 58; ISSN 0029-5515

Publisher:: IOP ScienceCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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