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PLASMA PHYSICS AND CONTROLLED FUSION
Volume 56, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0741-3335/56/3/035009
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snowflake divertor; confinement; alternative confinement concepts; EMC3-Eirene; DEMO; beta poloidal instability
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One of the approaches to solve the heat load problem in a divertor tokamak is the so called 'snowflake' (SF) configuration, a magnetic equilibrium with two nearby x-points and two additional divertor legs. Here we report on the first EMC3-Eirene simulations of plasma-and neutral particle transport in the scrape-off layer of a series of TCV SF equilibria with different values of sigma, the distance between the x-points normalized to the minor radius of the plasma. The constant cross-field transport coefficients were chosen such that the power-and particle deposition profiles at the primary inner strike point (SP) match the Langmuir probe measurements for the sigma = 0.1 case. At the secondary SP on the floor, however, a significantly larger power flux than that predicted by the simulation was measured by the probes, indicating an enhanced transport across the primary separatrix. As the ideal SF configuration (sigma = 0) is approached, the density as well as the radiation maximum are predicted to move from the target plates upward to the x-point by the simulation.
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