Power deposition on misaligned edges in COMPASS.

0481467 - ÚFP 2018 RIV US eng J - Journal Article
Dejarnac, Renaud - Corre, Y. - Vondráček, Petr - Gardarein, J.-L. - Gaspar, J. - Gauthier, E. - Gunn, J. P. - Horáček, Jan - Hron, Martin - Komm, Michael - Pánek, Radomír - Pitts, R.A.
Power deposition on misaligned edges in COMPASS.
Nuclear Materials and Energy. Roč. 12, August (2017), s. 1374-1378. E-ISSN 2352-1791.
[PSI 2016 - 22nd International Conference on Plasma Surface Interactions in Controlled Fusion Devices/22./. Roma, 30.05.2016-03.06.2016]
R&D Projects: GA MŠMT(CZ) 8D15001; GA MŠMT(CZ) LM2015045
EU Projects: European Commission(XE) 633053 - EUROfusion
Institutional support: RVO:61389021
Keywords : plasma * tokamak * COMPASS
OECD category: Fluids and plasma physics (including surface physics)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352179116300187

If the decision is made not to apply a toroidal chamfer to tungsten monoblocks at ITER divertor vertical targets, exposed leading edges will arise as a result of assembly tolerances between adjacent plasma-facing components. Then, the advantage of glancing magnetic field angles for spreading plasma heat flux on top surfaces is lost at the misaligned edges with an interaction occurring at near normal incidence, which can drive melting for the expected inter-ELM heat fluxes. A dedicated experiment has been performed on the COMPASS tokamak to thoroughly study power deposition on misaligned edges using inner-wall limited discharges on a special graphite tile presenting gaps and leading edges directly viewed by a high resolution infra-red camera. The parallel power flux deducted from the unperturbed measurement far from the gap is fully consistent with the observed temperature increase at the leading edge, respecting the power balance. All the power flowing into the gap is deposited at the leading edge and no mitigation factor is required to explain the thermal response. Particle-in-cell simulations show that the ion Larmor smoothing effect is weak and that the power deposition on misaligned edges is well described by the optical approximation because of an electron dominated regime associated with non-ambipolar parallel current flow.
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