Reduced model of high-Z impurity redeposition and erosion in tokamak divertor and its application to DIII-D experiments
Abstract
A reduced model of high-Z impurities erosion and redeposition is presented to analyze net erosion of tungsten material in divertor attached plasma conditions measured in DIII-D experiments. This reduced model is tailored to quantify the redeposition and the net erosion on high-Z material samples of sufficiently small dimensions to be considered exposed to uniform plasma conditions. For those uniform plasma conditions, the spatial distribution of redeposited high-Z impurities is well approximated by an analytical distribution characterized by a few parameters. The fraction of high-Z impurity eroding and redepositing on a material sample is then obtained by integrating this distribution across the material sample. Here, the ratio of net erosion rates of tungsten measured experimentally from tungsten samples of different sizes exposed to the same attached plasma conditions are well reproduced with this reduced model. It is shown that uncertainties induced by radially non-uniform plasma conditions in experiments can be significantly reduced by exposing samples to high density divertor plasma. Several enhanced experimental setups are proposed to measure and compare net erosion rates from samples of various areas during a single plasma experiment.
- Authors:
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- Oak Ridge Associated Univ., Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
- Univ. of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA (United States)
- General Atomics, San Diego, CA (United States)
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- General Atomics, San Diego, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Fusion Energy Sciences (FES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1573806
- Grant/Contract Number:
- FC02-04ER54698
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 61; Journal Issue: 12; Journal ID: ISSN 0741-3335
- Publisher:
- IOP Science
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; tungsten; redeposition; divertor; erosion
Citation Formats
Guterl, J., Wampler, W. R., Rudakov, D., Abrams, T., Wang, H. Q., McLean, A. G., and Snyder, P. Reduced model of high-Z impurity redeposition and erosion in tokamak divertor and its application to DIII-D experiments. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1088/1361-6587/ab5144.
Guterl, J., Wampler, W. R., Rudakov, D., Abrams, T., Wang, H. Q., McLean, A. G., & Snyder, P. Reduced model of high-Z impurity redeposition and erosion in tokamak divertor and its application to DIII-D experiments. United States. doi:10.1088/1361-6587/ab5144.
Guterl, J., Wampler, W. R., Rudakov, D., Abrams, T., Wang, H. Q., McLean, A. G., and Snyder, P. Mon .
"Reduced model of high-Z impurity redeposition and erosion in tokamak divertor and its application to DIII-D experiments". United States. doi:10.1088/1361-6587/ab5144. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1573806.
@article{osti_1573806,
title = {Reduced model of high-Z impurity redeposition and erosion in tokamak divertor and its application to DIII-D experiments},
author = {Guterl, J. and Wampler, W. R. and Rudakov, D. and Abrams, T. and Wang, H. Q. and McLean, A. G. and Snyder, P.},
abstractNote = {A reduced model of high-Z impurities erosion and redeposition is presented to analyze net erosion of tungsten material in divertor attached plasma conditions measured in DIII-D experiments. This reduced model is tailored to quantify the redeposition and the net erosion on high-Z material samples of sufficiently small dimensions to be considered exposed to uniform plasma conditions. For those uniform plasma conditions, the spatial distribution of redeposited high-Z impurities is well approximated by an analytical distribution characterized by a few parameters. The fraction of high-Z impurity eroding and redepositing on a material sample is then obtained by integrating this distribution across the material sample. Here, the ratio of net erosion rates of tungsten measured experimentally from tungsten samples of different sizes exposed to the same attached plasma conditions are well reproduced with this reduced model. It is shown that uncertainties induced by radially non-uniform plasma conditions in experiments can be significantly reduced by exposing samples to high density divertor plasma. Several enhanced experimental setups are proposed to measure and compare net erosion rates from samples of various areas during a single plasma experiment.},
doi = {10.1088/1361-6587/ab5144},
journal = {Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion},
number = 12,
volume = 61,
place = {United States},
year = {2019},
month = {11}
}
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