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Article Dans Une Revue Nuclear Materials and Energy Année : 2023

First 3D modeling of tungsten erosion and migration in WEST discharges adopting a toroidally non-symmetric wall geometry

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Numerical analyses are a key tool to investigate tungsten (W) sources and contamination in W Environment steady-state tokamak (WEST) plasma discharges. Modelling activity was performed in order to study W erosion and migration at WEST plasma-facing components (PFCs), using for the first time a toroidally asymmetric wall geometry provided by toroidally localized objects representing WEST outer limiter or antennae. 3D non-axisymmetric SOLEDGE transport simulations were performed with simplifying assumptions (pure Deuterium plasma, fluid model for neutrals) to reproduce WEST boundary plasma, and used as background for ERO2.0 simulations modelling W erosion, re-deposition, and migration. On the sides of the toroidally localized limiters/antennae, two thin W stripes were considered in order to model WEST W antennae protections. Simulations suggest antennae protections contribution to dominate W contamination in the considered simulations settings, highlighting the need of further analyses with different configurations using this kind of tools.
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hal-03988791 , version 1 (14-02-2023)

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S. Di Genova, G. Ciraolo, A. Gallo, J. Romazanov, N. Fedorczak, et al.. First 3D modeling of tungsten erosion and migration in WEST discharges adopting a toroidally non-symmetric wall geometry. Nuclear Materials and Energy, 2023, 34, pp.101340. ⟨10.1016/j.nme.2022.101340⟩. ⟨hal-03988791⟩
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