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Detachment scalings derived from 1D scrape-off-layer simulations

Plasma Physics 2024-10-03 v2

Abstract

Fusion power plants will require detachment to mitigate sputtering and keep divertor heat fluxes at tolerable levels. Controlling detachment on these devices may require the use of real-time scrape-off-layer modeling to complement the limited set of available diagnostics. In this work, we use the configurable Hermes-3 edge modeling framework to perform time-dependent, fixed-fraction-impurity 1D detachment simulations. Although currently far from real-time, these simulations are used to investigate time-dependent effects and the minimum physics set required for control-relevant modeling. We show that these simulations reproduce the expected rollover of the target ion flux - a typical characteristic of detachment onset. We also perform scans of the input heat flux and impurity concentration and show that the steady-state results closely match the scalings predicted by the 0D time-independent Lengyel-Goedheer model. This allows us to indirectly compare to SOLPS simulations, which find a similar scaling but a lower value for the impurity concentration required for detachment for given upstream conditions. We use this result to suggest a series of improvements for the Hermes simulations, and finally show simulations demonstrating the impact of time-dependence.

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@article{arxiv.2406.16375,
  title  = {Detachment scalings derived from 1D scrape-off-layer simulations},
  author = {Thomas Body and Thomas Eich and Adam Q Kuang and Thomas Looby and Mike Kryjak and Benjamin D Dudson and Matthew Reinke},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.16375},
  year   = {2024}
}

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Conference paper for PSI-26 (26th Conference on Plasma Surface Interactions, Marseille)

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