Comparison of DIVIMP and EDGE2D-EIRENE tungsten transport predictions in JET edge plasmas

H. A. Kumpulainen; M. Groth; M. Fontell; A. E. Jaervinen; G. Corrigan; D. Harting

doi:10.1016/j.nme.2020.100784

Comparison of DIVIMP and EDGE2D-EIRENE tungsten transport predictions in JET edge plasmas

H. A. Kumpulainen, M. Groth, M. Fontell, A. E. Jaervinen, G. Corrigan, D. Harting

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Abstract

The average tungsten concentrations in the pedestal region (c_W) predicted by the Monte Carlo code DIVIMP and the coupled multi-fluid plasma/kinetic neutral code EDGE2D-EIRENE are found to agree within a factor of 2 for a range of JET-ILW L-mode and H-mode plasma conditions. Under attached divertor conditions with c_W exceeding 10⁻⁶, the c_W predicted by DIVIMP is consistently ~50% higher than by EDGE2D-EIRENE. In colder plasma scenarios with c_W <10^-6, stochastic variations exceed the systematic disagreement between the two codes. The average tungsten charge predicted by EDGE2D-EIRENE in the upstream scrape-off layer is lower by 40–50% due to the bundling of the 74 tungsten ion charge states into 6 fluid species, which explains the reduced tungsten accumulation in the main plasma compared to the DIVIMP predictions.

Original language	English
Article number	100784
Journal	Nuclear Materials and Energy
Volume	25
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nme.2020.100784
Publication status	Published - Dec 2020
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

Keywords

Code validation
Impurity transport
Joint European Torus
Monte Carlo simulation
Scrape-off layer
Tungsten

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