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Physics basis and design of the ITER plasma-facing components
R.A. Pitts,S. Carpentier,Frederic Escourbiac,T. Hirai,V. Komarov,A.S. Kukushkin,S.W. Lisgo,A. Loarte,Mario Merola,R. Mitteau,A.R. Raffray,Michiya Shimada,P.C. Stangeby +12 more
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The ITER PFC design has now reached a rather mature stage following the 2007 ITER Design Review as discussed by the authors, and the key elements of the design, reviews the physics drivers, essentially thermal load specifications, which have defined the concept and discusses a selection of material and design issues.About:
This article is published in Journal of Nuclear Materials.The article was published on 2011-08-01. It has received 368 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Divertor.read more
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SOLPS-ITER modeling of CFETR advanced divertor with Ar and Ne seeding
I. Senichenkov,R. Jeff Ding,P. Molchanov,E. G. Kaveeva,V. A. Rozhansky,S. P. Voskoboynikov,N. V. Shtyrkhunov,Sergey N. Makarov,H. Si,X. Liu,Chaofeng Sang,Shifeng Mao,Cfetr Physics Team +12 more
TL;DR: In this paper , the results of the CFETR advanced divertor optimization by SOLPS-ITER modeling with full drifts and currents activated are presented and three divertor geometries, which differ by the distance from the X-point to the strike point on the outer target, are considered.
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SOLPS-ITER modeling of beryllium trace impurity in ITER
Sergei Makarov,Elizaveta Kaveeva +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a trace impurity model for beryllium transport in a tokamak ITER was carried out by using the SOLPS-ITER code.
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The Role of an Electric Field in the Formation of a Detached Regime in Tokamak Plasma
I. Senichenkov,E. G. Kaveeva,V. A. Rozhansky,E. Sytova,I. Veselova,S. P. Voskoboynikov,D. P. Coster +6 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors model the transition to the detachment of ASDEX upgrade tokamak plasma with increasing density using the SOLPS-ITER numerical code with a self-consistent account of drifts and currents.
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OEDGE modeling of DIII-D density scan discharges leading to detachment
J.D. Elder,P.C. Stangeby,P.C. Stangeby,B.D. Bray,N.H. Brooks,A.W. Leonard,Adam McLean,Ezekial A Unterberg,J.G. Watkins +8 more
TL;DR: In this article, the OEDGE code is used to model the outer divertor plasma for discharges from a density scan experiment on DIII-D with the objective of assessing EIRENE and ADAS hydrogenic emission atomic physics data for values of T e and n e characteristic of the range of divertor plasmas from attached to weakly detached.
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Formation and fragmentation of the tungsten clusters in gas phase
TL;DR: A theoretical study of accumulation of clusters consisting of up to 100 tungsten atoms based on information extracted from molecular dynamics trajectory simulations based on the rates corresponding to the single W atom attachment to Wn clusters and their dissociation processes.
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