Behaviour of melted tungsten plasma facing components under ITER-like transient heat loads. Simulations and experiments

Fusion Engineering and Design

Volumn 83, Issue 7-9, 2008, Pages 1077-1081

  Bazylev, B ^a   Janeschitz, G ^a   Landman, I ^a   Pestchanyi, S ^a   Loarte, A ^b   Federici, G ^b   Merola, M ^c   Linke, J ^d   Hirai, T ^d   Zhitlukhin, A ^e   Podkovyrov, V ^e   Klimov, N ^e  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^c Close Support Unit Garching ^*  (France)

^d EURATOM ASSOCIATION   (Germany)

^e TROITSK INSTITUTE FOR INNOVATION AND FUSION RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Divertor materials; Plasma material interaction; Theory and modeling; Tungsten

Indexed keywords

BRUSHES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DROP FORMATION; DROPS; EXPERIMENTAL REACTORS; EXPERIMENTS; FUSION REACTOR DIVERTORS; METAL MELTING; THERMAL LOAD; TUNGSTEN;

BRIDGE FORMATIONS; CANDIDATE MATERIALS; CRITICAL RADIUSES; DIVERTOR MATERIALS; DROPLET EJECTIONS; DROPLET INJECTIONS; HEAT LOADS; ITER DIVERTORS; LIFE-TIMES; MELT MOTIONS; METALLIC TARGETS; NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS; PLASMA FACING COMPONENTS; THEORY AND MODELING; TRANSIENT EVENTS; TRANSIENT HEATS;

PLASMAS;

EID: 57049171937     PISSN: 09203796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fusengdes.2008.05.044     Document Type: Article

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