Investigation of heat flux deposition on divertor target on the Large Helical Device with EMC3-EIRENE modelling

• Published in: Plasma physics and controlled fusion 2017-06, Vol.59 (8), p.85013
• Main Authors: Dai, Shuyu, Kobayashi, M, Kawamura, G, Masuzaki, S, Tanaka, H, Suzuki, Y, Feng, Y, Wang, D Z
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: heat flux; Langmuir probe; LHD; SOL/divertor plasma
• ISSN: 0741-3335; 1361-6587
• DOI: 10.1088/1361-6587/aa7599

The measured divertor heat flux profiles are compared to the EMC3-EIRENE simulations for two different times of an LHD discharge, corresponding to higher and lower edge temperatures. The relation between the three-dimensional magnetic field structure and the heat flux distributions on the divertor has been analysed. The modelled heat flux for the lower plasma temperature case has a better agreement with the experimental result obtained by the Langmuir probes, which shows a qualitative reproduction of the experimental profile shape. However, the heat flux distribution for the high plasma temperature case shows a different behaviour between the simulation results and the experimental measurements. The detailed analysis of the heat flux distribution for the higher temperature case which has a larger discrepancy has been performed, both quantitatively and qualitatively. The radiation of the eroded impurity from divertor target plates has a minor effect on the heat flux distribution. Non-uniform cross-field transport coefficients are used in the simulations and its impact on the heat flux distributions is discussed for the case of the high plasma temperature.