Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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9793826 | Journal of Nuclear Materials | 2005 | 5 Pages |
Abstract
The temperature evolution of a dust grain in a tokamak plasma is studied computationally. Heating times and evaporation times for scrape-off layer (SOL) plasmas are estimated, leading to estimates for the lifetime of micron-sized dust grains ranging between fractions of a second and tens of microseconds depending on plasma conditions. Grains are found to travel significant distances into a tokamak plasma.
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Authors
J.D. Martin, M. Coppins, G.F. Counsell,