kth.sePublications
Change search
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf
An integral approach to plasma-wall interaction modelling for EU-DEMO
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Institute of Fusion Energy and Nuclear Waste Management - Plasma Physics, Jülich, 52425, Germany.
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Institute of Fusion Energy and Nuclear Waste Management - Plasma Physics, Jülich, 52425, Germany.
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Institute of Fusion Energy and Nuclear Waste Management - Plasma Physics, Jülich, 52425, Germany; JARA-HPC, Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, 52425 Jülich, Germany.
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Institute of Fusion Energy and Nuclear Waste Management - Plasma Physics, Jülich, 52425, Germany; Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät, 40225 Düsseldorf, Germany.
Show others and affiliations
Number of Authors: 232024 (English)In: Nuclear Fusion, ISSN 0029-5515, E-ISSN 1741-4326, Vol. 64, no 10, article id 106043Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

An integral approach to plasma-wall interaction (PWI) modelling for DEMO is presented, which is part of the EUROfusion Theory and Advanced Simulation Coordination activities that were established to advance the understanding and predictive capabilities for the modelling of existing and future fusion devices using a modern advanced computing approach. In view of the DEMO design, the aim of PWI modelling activities is to assess safety-relevant information regarding the erosion of plasma-facing components (PFCs), including its impact on plasma contamination, dust production, fuel inventory, and material response to transient events. This is achieved using a set of powerful and validated computer codes that deal with particular PWI aspects and interact with each other by means of relevant data exchange. Steady state erosion of tungsten PFC and subsequent transport and re-deposition of eroded material are simulated with the ERO2.0 code using a DEMO plasma background produced by dedicated SOLPS-ITER simulations. Dust transport simulations in steady state plasma also rely on the respective SOLPS-ITER solutions and are performed with the MIGRAINe code. In order to improve simulations of tungsten erosion in the divertor of DEMO, relevant high density sheath models are being developed based on particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations with the state-of-the-art BIT code family. PIC codes of the SPICE code family, in turn, provide relevant information on multi-emissive sheath physics, such as semi-empirical scaling laws for field-assisted thermionic emission. These scaling laws are essential for simulations of material melting under transient heat loads that are performed with the recently developed MEMENTO code, the successor of MEMOS-U. Fuel retention simulations assess tritium retention in tungsten and structural materials, as well as fuel permeation to the coolant, accounting for neutron damage. Simulations for divertor monoblocks of different sizes are performed using the FESTIM code, while for the first wall the TESSIM code is applied. Respective code-code dependencies and interactions, as well as modelling results achieved to date are discussed in this contribution.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
IOP Publishing , 2024. Vol. 64, no 10, article id 106043
Keywords [en]
DEMO, dust evolution, erosion-deposition, EU-DEMO, fuel retention, plasma-wall interaction, transient melting
National Category
Fusion, Plasma and Space Physics
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-353431DOI: 10.1088/1741-4326/ad73e7ISI: 001306573600001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85203408693OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-353431DiVA, id: diva2:1899104
Note

QC 20240926

Available from: 2024-09-19 Created: 2024-09-19 Last updated: 2024-10-08Bibliographically approved

Open Access in DiVA

No full text in DiVA

Other links

Publisher's full textScopus

Authority records

Ratynskaia, Svetlana V.Vignitchouk, LadislasTolias, PanagiotisPaschalidis, Konstantinos

Search in DiVA

By author/editor
Ratynskaia, Svetlana V.Vignitchouk, LadislasTolias, PanagiotisPaschalidis, Konstantinos
By organisation
Space and Plasma Physics
In the same journal
Nuclear Fusion
Fusion, Plasma and Space Physics

Search outside of DiVA

GoogleGoogle Scholar

doi
urn-nbn

Altmetric score

doi
urn-nbn
Total: 70 hits
CiteExportLink to record
Permanent link

Direct link
Cite
Citation style
  • apa
  • ieee
  • modern-language-association-8th-edition
  • vancouver
  • Other style
More styles
Language
  • de-DE
  • en-GB
  • en-US
  • fi-FI
  • nn-NO
  • nn-NB
  • sv-SE
  • Other locale
More languages
Output format
  • html
  • text
  • asciidoc
  • rtf