Citation:
Tskhakaya , D , Groth , M & Contributors , J E T E F D A 2013 , ' 1D kinetic modelling of the JET SOL with tungsten divertor ' JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR MATERIALS , vol 438 , no. Supplement , pp. 522-525 . DOI: 10.1016/j.jnucmat.2013.01.108
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Abstract:
In this work a fully kinetic model of the JET SOL with tungsten divertor plates has been developed. It includes the dynamics of main-ions (D+) and electrons, the neutrals (D, C, W) and the impurity particles (C+m, W+n). Our simulations show extremely low concentration of W impurity. We identify two reasons which are responsible for this effect: (1) for low temperature divertor plasma the energy of most of the main-ions and the impurities in a low-ionization state impinging the divertor plates is below the W-sputtering threshold energy; (2) with increasing temperature the W-sputtering increases, but the potential drop across the divertor plasma increases too, so that most of the W ions are reabsorbed at the divertors.
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