Effect of drifts and currents on the validity of a fluid model for the atoms in the plasma edge
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A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä
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2022-10
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Nuclear Materials and Energy, Volume 33
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The performance of advanced fluid neutral models for the simulation of deuterium atoms in the plasma edge of magnetically confined fusion devices is tested for the first time on cases that include drifts and currents in the plasma model, on a simplified Alcator C-mod case. The unadapted advanced fluid neutral model already gives quantitative agreement, with 5–30% fluid-kinetic discrepancy in the broad vicinity of the strikepoint. A new advective perpendicular transport term is proposed, which further reduces the fluid-kinetic discrepancies for cases with drifts. It is also shown that the ion-neutral current can be calculated consistently for fluid or kinetic neutrals, at least when only atoms are considered. However, its effect on the solution is very small for the studied case.Description
Funding Information: The first author is funded by a PhD fellowship of the Research Foundation - Flanders . Parts of this work have been carried out within the framework of the EUROfusion Consortium, funded by the European Union via the Euratom Research and Training Programme (Grant Agreement No 101052200 — EUROfusion). Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Commission. Neither the European Union nor the European Commission can be held responsible for them. The computational resources and services used in this work were provided by the VSC (Flemish Supercomputer Center), funded by the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) and the Flemish Government - department EWI . Publisher Copyright: © 2022 The Author(s)
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Alcator C-mod, Drifts & currents, Fluid neutral atoms, Ion-neutral current, Plasma-edge modeling
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Van Uytven, W, Dekeyser, W, Blommaert, M, Horsten, N & Baelmans, M 2022, ' Effect of drifts and currents on the validity of a fluid model for the atoms in the plasma edge ', Nuclear Materials and Energy, vol. 33, 101255 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nme.2022.101255