Measurements and modeling of type-I and type-II ELMs heat flux to the DIII-D divertor
Perillo, R. and Boedo, J.A. and Lasnier, C.J. and Pitts, R.A. and Brank, M. and Bykov, I. and Coburn, J.D. and Glass, F. and Marini, C. and Osborne, T. and Riding, M. and Rudakov, D.L. and Watkins, J.G. and Zeng, L. (2023) Measurements and modeling of type-I and type-II ELMs heat flux to the DIII-D divertor. Nuclear Fusion, 63 (8). 086031. ISSN 0029-5515 (https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/acdf02)
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Abstract
Type-I and type-II edge-localized-modes (ELMs) heat flux profiles measured at the DIII-D divertor feature a peak in the vicinity of the strike-point and a plateau in the scrape-off-layer (SOL), which extends to the first wall. The plateau is present in attached and detached divertors and it is found to originate with plasma bursts upstream in the SOL. The integrated ELM heat flux is distributed at ∼65% in the peak and ∼35% in this plateau. The parallel loss model, currently used at ITER to predict power loads to the walls, is benchmarked using these results in the primary and secondary divertors with unprecedented constraints using experimental input data for ELM size, radial velocity, energy, electron temperature and density, heat flux footprints and number of filaments. The model can reproduce the experimental near-SOL peak within ∼20%, but cannot match the SOL plateau. Employing a two-component approach for the ELM radial velocity, as guided by intermittent data, the full radial heat flux profile can be well matched. The ELM-averaged radial velocity at the separatrix, which explains profile widening, increases from ∼0.2 km s−1 in attached to ∼0.8 km s−1 in detached scenarios, as the ELM filaments’ path becomes electrically disconnected from the sheath at the target. The results presented here indicate filaments fragmentation as a possible mechanism for ELM transport to the far-SOL and provide evidence on the beneficial role of detachment to mitigate ELM flux in the divertor far-SOL. However, these findings imply that wall regions far from the strike points in future machines should be designed to withstand significant heat flux, even for small-ELM regimes.
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Item type: Article ID code: 86172 Dates: DateEvent1 August 2023Published12 July 2023Published Online16 June 2023Accepted15 March 2023SubmittedSubjects: Science > Physics > Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity Department: Faculty of Engineering > Electronic and Electrical Engineering Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 18 Jul 2023 15:33 Last modified: 06 Sep 2024 01:11 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/86172