Type:
Journal
Description:
Describing the time evolution of Plasma Facing Materials (PFMs), through quantitative evaluations of erosion, roughness, and physical properties degradation, is one of the difficult challenges to reach the goal of efficient energy production by nuclear fusion. To follow all the aging-connected physical and chemical phenomena through their characteristic dimensional scale, and to estimate the PFM microstructural transformation over time, we propose a predictive sequential multiscale methodology, consisting of two database-provided coupled codes. The first is a time-dependent, volume-averaged, plasma simulator which describes completely this system in terms of thermodynamics, composition and evaluation of the sheath potential. Plasma solutions are geometrically rearranged by adding surface reactions and 3D geometric features. To increase sensitivity, plasma information is provided to the second code as an …
Publisher:
IOP Publishing
Publication date:
9 Sep 2024
Biblio References:
Volume: 64 Issue: 10 Pages: 106051
Origin:
Nuclear Fusion