Effect of PFC Recycling Conditions on JET Pedestal Density

There is experimental evidence that the pedestal dynamics in type-I ELMy H-mode discharges is significantly affected by a change in the recycling conditions at the tungsten plasma-facing components (W-PFCs) after an ELM event. The integrated code JINTRAC has been employed to assess the impact of rec...

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Autores: Wiesen, S., Brezinsek, S., Harting, D., Dittmar, T., Luna, E. de la, Jet Contributors, García Muñoz, Manuel
Tipo de documento: artigo
Estado:Versão publicada
Data de publicação:2016
País:España
Recursos:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositório:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/100499
Acesso em linha:https://hdl.handle.net/11441/100499
https://doi.org/10.1002/ctpp.201610015
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:Edge plasma
Plasma-wall interaction
Pedestal Integrated modelling
ELMs
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Resumo:There is experimental evidence that the pedestal dynamics in type-I ELMy H-mode discharges is significantly affected by a change in the recycling conditions at the tungsten plasma-facing components (W-PFCs) after an ELM event. The integrated code JINTRAC has been employed to assess the impact of recycling conditions during type-I ELMs in JET ITER-like wall H-mode discharges. By employing a heuristic approach, a model to mimic the physical processes leading to formation and release (i.e. outgassing) of finite near-surface fuel reservoirs in W-PFCs has been implemented into the EDGE2D-EIRENE plasma-wall interaction code being part of JINTRAC. As main result it is shown, that a delay in the density pedestal build-up after an ELM event can be provoked by reduced recycling induced by depleted W-PFC particle near-surface reservoirs. However the pedestal temperature evolution is barely affected by the change in recycling parameters suggesting that the presented model is incomplete.