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Simulation of divertor heat flux width on EAST by BOUT plus plus transport code

Journal

NUCLEAR FUSION
Volume 60, Issue 8, Pages -

Publisher

IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/1741-4326/ab70d6

Keywords

divertor heat flux width; BOUT plus plus; EAST; LHW; NB

Funding

  1. National Natural Science Foundation of China [11975271, 11575236, 11675211, 11575235, 11405213, 11875294]
  2. National Magnetic Confinement Fusion Science Program of China [2014GB106000, 2014GB106005, 2015GB101000, 2015GB110001]
  3. National Key Research and Development Program of China [2017YFA0402500, 2017YFE0300500, 2017YFE0300501]
  4. China Scholarship Council (CSC) [201706340070]
  5. U.S. Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) [DE-AC52-07NA27344]
  6. AHNFS [1808085J07]

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The BOUT++ edge plasma transport code is applied to study the effects of neutral recycling, drifts and heating scheme on edge plasma profiles and the divertor heat flux width of two discharges of the experimental advanced superconducting tokamak (EAST) steady-state H-mode plasmas heated by low hybrid wave (LHW) and neutral beam (NB), respectively. Neutral recycling seems to have played an important role in the plasma density profile. The edge plasma density drops dramatically for the case w/o neutral recycling, while it can be sustained for the case w/ neutral recycling. Drifts are found to have significant influences on edge plasma profiles. Both the amplitude and width of the divertor heat flux are found to have increased a lot due to drifts. The simulated heat flux width w/ drifts for the two discharges shows reasonable agreement with the experiments. However, the width from the simulation and experiment for the LHW heated discharge is much larger than that of the NB heated discharge. Comparison with Goldston's drift-based model and more detailed analysis on the heat flux contributions from drifts versus turbulence show that drifts are the dominant factor in edge plasma transport for both LHW and NB heated discharges, while turbulence may have played a more important role in determining the heat flux width in LHW heated discharges than that in NB heated discharges. This may account for the larger heat flux width in the LHW heated discharge. The magnetic topology and the equilibrium change by the LHW power may also be a potential reason for the larger heat flux width in the LHW heated discharges, which still needs more evidence and studies to support it. Additional SOLPS simulation w/o drifts for the two discharges show reasonable agreement with the counterpart from the BOUT++ simulation, suggesting the two are both suitable codes for EAST edge plasma simulation.

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