Simulations of divertor plasmas with inverse sheaths [electronic resource]

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Corporate Author: United States. Department of Energy. Chicago Operations Office
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Published: Washington, D.C. : Oak Ridge, Tenn. : United States. Department of Energy. Office of Science ; Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Department of Energy, 2020.
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500 |a Masline, R. ; Smirnov, R. D. ; Krasheninnikov, S. I. ;  
500 |a Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States) 
520 3 |a The effect of strong electron emission from material surfaces has been proposed to form an ?inverse sheath?: a region with a positive potential relative to the near-wall plasma which prevents the flow of ions to the wall [M. D. Campanell, ?Negative plasma potential relative to electronemitting surfaces,? Phys. Rev. E. 88, 033103 (2013); M. D. Campanell and M. V. Umansky, ?Strongly emitting surfaces unable to float below plasma potential,? Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 1?5 (2016); M. D. Campanell and G. R. Johnson, ?Thermionic cooling of the target plasma to a sub-ev temperature,? Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 1?5 (2019)]. We assess the viability of this regime in a tokamak device using the 2D edge plasma transport code UEDGE [T. Rognlien <em>et al</em>., ?A fully implicit, time dependent 2-D fluid code for modeling tokamak edge plasmas,? J. Nucl. Mater. 196?198, 347?351 (1992)]. Since the UEDGE code does not consider the sheath region directly, we apply boundary conditions at the divertor targets which emulate the physics of both ?standard? and ?inverse? sheath regimes [R. Masline <em>et al</em>., ?Influence of the inverse sheath on divertor plasma performance in tokamak edge plasma simulations,? Contrib. Plasma Phys. 60, e201900097 (2020)]. Using these boundary conditions, we perform scoping studies to assess plasma parameters near the target by varying the density at the core-edge interface. We observe a smooth transition in the resultant profiles of plasma parameters for the standard sheath, and a bifurcation across the simulation set for plasmas with an inverse sheath. The cause of this bifurcation is assessed by performing the parameter scan both with and without impurity radiation; we observe that the bifurcation persists in both cases, indicating that this bifurcation is caused by plasma recombination. 
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650 7 |a Physics  |2 local. 
650 7 |a Plasma material interactions  |2 local. 
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650 7 |a Plasma sheaths  |2 local. 
650 7 |a Fusion reactors  |2 local. 
650 7 |a Plasma physics and fusion technology  |2 local. 
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