Speaker
Chizhou Wang
(Swiss Plasma Center, EPFL)
Description
The avalanche of high-energy runaway electrons (RE) during ITER disruptions could potentially generate several MA’s of RE current which might damage the plasma-facing components. Previous studies have suggested that avoiding the formation of such a large RE current would be difficult. However, before their quantity increases to a large value, some REs might be lost due to the scraping-off of the flux surfaces on the wall during the plasma’s vertical displacement or the magnetic stochasticity from the growth of MHD instabilities. In our work, this process is simulated with the JOREK code, using a reduced MHD model self-consistently coupled to a RE fluid description.
Author
Chizhou Wang
(Swiss Plasma Center, EPFL)
Co-authors
Eric Nardon
Mr
Javier Artola
(ITER Organiation)
Mr
Jonathan Graves
(Swiss Plasma Center, EPFL)
Mr
Matthias Hoelzl
(Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics)
Ms
Mengdi Kong
(Swiss Plasma Center, EPFL)
Mr
Vinodh Bandaru
(Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati)
