| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7965705 | Journal of Nuclear Materials | 2015 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
Gross erosion from the outer wall is expected to be a major source of impurities for high power fusion devices due to the low redeposition fraction. Scaling studies of sputtering from the all-carbon outer wall of NSTX are reported. It is found that wall erosion decreases with divertor plasma pressure in low/mid temperature regimes, due to increasing divertor neutral opacity. Wall erosion is found to consistently decrease with reduced recycling coefficient, with outer target recycling providing the largest contribution. Upper and lower bounds are calculated for the increase in wall erosion due to a low-field-side gas puff.
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Authors
J.H. Nichols, M.A. Jaworski, R. Kaita, T. Abrams, C.H. Skinner, D.P. Stotler,