Surface erosion issues and analysis for dissipative divertors

J. N. Brooks, D. N. Ruzic, D. B. Hayden, R. B. Turkot

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Abstract

Erosion/redeposition is examined for the sidewalls of a dissipative divertor using coupled impurity transport, charge exchange, and sputtering codes, applied to plasma solutions for the ITER design. A key issue for this regime is possible runaway self-sputtering, due to the effect of a low boundary density and nearly parallel field geometry on redeposition parameters. Net erosion rates, assuming finite self-sputtering, vary with wall location, boundary conditions, and plasma solution, and are roughly of the following order. 200–2000 Å/s for beryllium, 10–100 Å/s for vanadium, and 0.3–3 Å/s for tungsten.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)269-273
Number of pages5
JournalJournal of Nuclear Materials
Volume220-222
DOIs
StatePublished - 1995

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics
  • Materials Science(all)
  • Nuclear Energy and Engineering

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