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Title: Design and physics basis for the upcoming DIII-D SAS-VW campaign to quantify tungsten leakage and transport in a new slot divertor geometry

Abstract

A set of experiments are planned to exploit the high SOL collisionality enabled by a tightly baffled slot divertor geometry to suppress tungsten leakage in DIII-D. A toroidal row of graphite tiles from the Small Angle Slot (SAS) divertor is being coated with 10–15 μm of tungsten. New spectroscopic viewing chords with in-vacuo optics will measure the W gross erosion source from the divertor surface with high spatial and temporal resolution. In parallel, the bottom of the SAS divertor is changed from a flat to a ‘V’ shape. New SOLPS-ITER/DIVIMP simulations conducted with drifts using the planned ‘V’ shape predict a substantial reduction in W sourcing and SOL accumulation in either B × ∇B direction relative to either the old SAS divertor shape or the open, lower divertor. Dedicated studies are planned to carefully characterize the level of W sourcing, leakage, and scrape-off-layer (SOL) accumulation in DIII-D over a wide range of plasma scenarios. Various actuators will be assessed for their efficacy in further reducing high-Z impurity sources and leakage from the slot divertor geometry. Finally, this coupled code-experiment validation effort will be used to stress-test physics models and build confidence in extrapolations to advanced, high-Z divertor geometries for next-stepmore » devices.« less

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [1];  [2]; ORCiD logo [3]; ORCiD logo [4]; ORCiD logo [5];  [6]; ORCiD logo [1]; ORCiD logo [7];  [1];  [1]; ORCiD logo [8]; ORCiD logo [8];  [9];  [1];  [1]; ORCiD logo [10];  [6];  [1]; ORCiD logo [1]
  1. General Atomics, San Diego, CA (United States)
  2. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
  3. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
  4. Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)
  5. Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States); Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
  6. Univ. of Toronto, ON (Canada)
  7. Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States)
  8. Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU), Oak Ridge, TN
  9. Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
  10. Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Fusion Energy Sciences (FES)
OSTI Identifier:
1890286
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC05-00OR22725; FC02-04ER54698; SC0019256; AC02-09CH11466; AC52- 07NA27344; FG02-07ER54917
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physica Scripta
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 96; Journal Issue: 12; Journal ID: ISSN 0031-8949
Publisher:
IOP Publishing
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; tungsten; DIII-D; divertors; SOLPS; DIVIMP; spectroscopy; tokamaks

Citation Formats

Abrams, Tyler, Sinclair, Greg, Nichols, Jake H., Unterberg, Ezekial A., Donovan, David C., Duran, Jonah, Elder, J. D., Glass, Fenton, Grierson, B. A., Guo, H. Y., Hall, T., Ma, Xinxing, Maurizio, Roberto, McLean, A. G., Murphy, Christopher, Nguyen, R., Rudakov, D. L., Stangeby, Peter C., Thomas, D. M., and Zamperini, Shawn A. Design and physics basis for the upcoming DIII-D SAS-VW campaign to quantify tungsten leakage and transport in a new slot divertor geometry. United States: N. p., 2021. Web. doi:10.1088/1402-4896/ac3c5f.
Abrams, Tyler, Sinclair, Greg, Nichols, Jake H., Unterberg, Ezekial A., Donovan, David C., Duran, Jonah, Elder, J. D., Glass, Fenton, Grierson, B. A., Guo, H. Y., Hall, T., Ma, Xinxing, Maurizio, Roberto, McLean, A. G., Murphy, Christopher, Nguyen, R., Rudakov, D. L., Stangeby, Peter C., Thomas, D. M., & Zamperini, Shawn A. Design and physics basis for the upcoming DIII-D SAS-VW campaign to quantify tungsten leakage and transport in a new slot divertor geometry. United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1402-4896/ac3c5f
Abrams, Tyler, Sinclair, Greg, Nichols, Jake H., Unterberg, Ezekial A., Donovan, David C., Duran, Jonah, Elder, J. D., Glass, Fenton, Grierson, B. A., Guo, H. Y., Hall, T., Ma, Xinxing, Maurizio, Roberto, McLean, A. G., Murphy, Christopher, Nguyen, R., Rudakov, D. L., Stangeby, Peter C., Thomas, D. M., and Zamperini, Shawn A. Wed . "Design and physics basis for the upcoming DIII-D SAS-VW campaign to quantify tungsten leakage and transport in a new slot divertor geometry". United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1402-4896/ac3c5f. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1890286.
@article{osti_1890286,
title = {Design and physics basis for the upcoming DIII-D SAS-VW campaign to quantify tungsten leakage and transport in a new slot divertor geometry},
author = {Abrams, Tyler and Sinclair, Greg and Nichols, Jake H. and Unterberg, Ezekial A. and Donovan, David C. and Duran, Jonah and Elder, J. D. and Glass, Fenton and Grierson, B. A. and Guo, H. Y. and Hall, T. and Ma, Xinxing and Maurizio, Roberto and McLean, A. G. and Murphy, Christopher and Nguyen, R. and Rudakov, D. L. and Stangeby, Peter C. and Thomas, D. M. and Zamperini, Shawn A.},
abstractNote = {A set of experiments are planned to exploit the high SOL collisionality enabled by a tightly baffled slot divertor geometry to suppress tungsten leakage in DIII-D. A toroidal row of graphite tiles from the Small Angle Slot (SAS) divertor is being coated with 10–15 μm of tungsten. New spectroscopic viewing chords with in-vacuo optics will measure the W gross erosion source from the divertor surface with high spatial and temporal resolution. In parallel, the bottom of the SAS divertor is changed from a flat to a ‘V’ shape. New SOLPS-ITER/DIVIMP simulations conducted with drifts using the planned ‘V’ shape predict a substantial reduction in W sourcing and SOL accumulation in either B × ∇B direction relative to either the old SAS divertor shape or the open, lower divertor. Dedicated studies are planned to carefully characterize the level of W sourcing, leakage, and scrape-off-layer (SOL) accumulation in DIII-D over a wide range of plasma scenarios. Various actuators will be assessed for their efficacy in further reducing high-Z impurity sources and leakage from the slot divertor geometry. Finally, this coupled code-experiment validation effort will be used to stress-test physics models and build confidence in extrapolations to advanced, high-Z divertor geometries for next-step devices.},
doi = {10.1088/1402-4896/ac3c5f},
journal = {Physica Scripta},
number = 12,
volume = 96,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Dec 08 00:00:00 EST 2021},
month = {Wed Dec 08 00:00:00 EST 2021}
}

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