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| author | Rizzi, Tommaso Ratynskaia, Svetlana Tolias, Panagiotis Corre, Yann Diez, Mathilde Firdaouss, Mehdi Gerardin, Jonathan Mitteau, Raphael Reux, Cedric Kulachenko, Artem team, the WEST Team, the EUROfusion Tokamak Exploitation |
| author_facet | Rizzi, Tommaso Ratynskaia, Svetlana Tolias, Panagiotis Corre, Yann Diez, Mathilde Firdaouss, Mehdi Gerardin, Jonathan Mitteau, Raphael Reux, Cedric Kulachenko, Artem team, the WEST Team, the EUROfusion Tokamak Exploitation |
| contents | The runaway electron (RE) - induced damage on boron nitride (BN) tiles mounted on the inner bumpers of the WEST tokamak is modeled employing available empirical input and experimental constraints, concerning the post-mortem documentation of the damaged material topology and infra-red camera observations of the long-time decay of the surface temperature. A newly developed work-flow for the modeling of brittle failure due to RE impacts, recently validated against a controlled DIII-D experiment, is employed. Monte Carlo simulations of RE transport into BN provide volumetric heat source maps for finite-element simulations of the linear thermoelastic material response, while the brittle failure onset is predicted on the basis of the Rankine criterion. The physics of thermal stress driven failure and explosion are well captured by this model, which exhibits high sensitivity to RE impact parameters. Despite the accidental nature of the damage events, the workflow predicts failure in accordance with observations for realistic loading specifications expected in WEST disruptions. |
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| publishDate | 2025 |
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| spellingShingle | Modeling of runaway electron induced damage on boron-nitride tiles in WEST Rizzi, Tommaso Ratynskaia, Svetlana Tolias, Panagiotis Corre, Yann Diez, Mathilde Firdaouss, Mehdi Gerardin, Jonathan Mitteau, Raphael Reux, Cedric Kulachenko, Artem team, the WEST Team, the EUROfusion Tokamak Exploitation Plasma Physics The runaway electron (RE) - induced damage on boron nitride (BN) tiles mounted on the inner bumpers of the WEST tokamak is modeled employing available empirical input and experimental constraints, concerning the post-mortem documentation of the damaged material topology and infra-red camera observations of the long-time decay of the surface temperature. A newly developed work-flow for the modeling of brittle failure due to RE impacts, recently validated against a controlled DIII-D experiment, is employed. Monte Carlo simulations of RE transport into BN provide volumetric heat source maps for finite-element simulations of the linear thermoelastic material response, while the brittle failure onset is predicted on the basis of the Rankine criterion. The physics of thermal stress driven failure and explosion are well captured by this model, which exhibits high sensitivity to RE impact parameters. Despite the accidental nature of the damage events, the workflow predicts failure in accordance with observations for realistic loading specifications expected in WEST disruptions. |
| title | Modeling of runaway electron induced damage on boron-nitride tiles in WEST |
| topic | Plasma Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15821 |