Reduced modeling of scrape-off losses of runaway electrons during tokamak disruptions
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| author | Vallhagen, Oskar Hanebring, Lise Fülöp, Tünde Hoppe, Mathias Pusztai, Istvan |
| author_facet | Vallhagen, Oskar Hanebring, Lise Fülöp, Tünde Hoppe, Mathias Pusztai, Istvan |
| contents | Accurate modeling of runaway electron generation and losses during tokamak disruptions is crucial for the development of reactor-scale tokamak devices. In this paper we present a reduced model for runaway electron losses due to flux surface scrape-off caused by the vertical motion of the plasma. The model is made compatible with computationally inexpensive one-dimensional models averaging over a fixed flux-surface geometry, by formulating it as a loss term outside an estimated time-varying minor radius of the last closed flux surface. We then implement this model in the disruption modeling tool DREAM, and demonstrate its impact on selected scenarios relevant for ITER. Our results indicate that scrape-off losses may be crucial for making complete runaway avoidance possible even in a $15\,\rm MA$ DT H-mode ITER scenario. The results are however sensitive to the details of the runaway electron generation and phenomena affecting the current density profile, such as the current profile relaxation at the beginning of the disruption. |
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| spellingShingle | Reduced modeling of scrape-off losses of runaway electrons during tokamak disruptions Vallhagen, Oskar Hanebring, Lise Fülöp, Tünde Hoppe, Mathias Pusztai, Istvan Plasma Physics Accurate modeling of runaway electron generation and losses during tokamak disruptions is crucial for the development of reactor-scale tokamak devices. In this paper we present a reduced model for runaway electron losses due to flux surface scrape-off caused by the vertical motion of the plasma. The model is made compatible with computationally inexpensive one-dimensional models averaging over a fixed flux-surface geometry, by formulating it as a loss term outside an estimated time-varying minor radius of the last closed flux surface. We then implement this model in the disruption modeling tool DREAM, and demonstrate its impact on selected scenarios relevant for ITER. Our results indicate that scrape-off losses may be crucial for making complete runaway avoidance possible even in a $15\,\rm MA$ DT H-mode ITER scenario. The results are however sensitive to the details of the runaway electron generation and phenomena affecting the current density profile, such as the current profile relaxation at the beginning of the disruption. |
| title | Reduced modeling of scrape-off losses of runaway electrons during tokamak disruptions |
| topic | Plasma Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.03512 |