%0 Journal Article
%A Reiser, D.
%A Eich, T.
%T Drift-based scrape-off particle width in X-point geometry
%J Nuclear fusion
%V 57
%N 4
%@ 1741-4326
%C Vienna
%I IAEA
%M FZJ-2017-01944
%P 046011 -
%D 2017
%X The Goldston heuristic estimate of the scrape-off layer width (Goldston 2012 Nucl. Fusion 52 013009) is reconsidered using a fluid description for the plasma dynamics. The basic ingredient is the inclusion of a compressible diamagnetic drift for the particle cross field transport. Instead of testing the heuristic model in a sophisticated numerical simulation including several physical mechanisms working together, the purpose of this work is to point out basic consequences for a drift-dominated cross field transport using a reduced fluid model. To evaluate the model equations and prepare them for subsequent numerical solution a specific analytical model for 2D magnetic field configurations with X-points is employed. In a first step parameter scans in high-resolution grids for isothermal plasmas are done to assess the basic formulas of the heuristic model with respect to the functional dependence of the scrape-off width on the poloidal magnetic field and plasma temperature. Particular features in the 2D-fluid calculations—especially the appearance of supersonic parallel flows and shock wave like bifurcational jumps—are discussed and can be understood partly in the framework of a reduced 1D model. The resulting semi-analytical findings might give hints for experimental proof and implementation in more elaborated fluid simulations.
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%9 Journal Article
%U <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000405944200003
%R 10.1088/1741-4326/aa5ab7
%U https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/827856