Article Dans Une Revue Journal of Plasma Physics Année : 2025

Tessellation-based analysis of impurity clustering in the edge plasma of tokamaks

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Confinement quality in fusion plasma is influenced significantly by the presence of heavy impurities, which can lead to radiative heat loss and reduced confinement. This study explores the clustering of heavy impurity, i.e. tungsten in edge plasma, using high-resolution direct numerical simulations of the Hasegawa–Wakatani equations. We use the Stokes number to quantify the inertia of impurity particles. It is found that particle inertia will cause spatial intermittency in particle distribution and the formation of large-scale structures, i.e. the clustering of particles. The degrees of clustering are influenced by the Stokes number. To quantify these observations, we apply a modified Voronoi tessellation, which assigns specific volumes to impurity particles. By determining time changes of these volumes, we can calculate the impurity velocity divergence, which allows the clustering dynamics to be assessed. To quantify the clustering statistically, several approaches are applied, such as probability density function (PDF) of impurity velocity divergence and joint PDF of volume and divergence.
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hal-04941575 , version 1 (11-02-2025)

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Zetao Lin, Thibault Maurel-Oujia, Benjamin Kadoch, Saddrudin Benkadda, Kai Schneider. Tessellation-based analysis of impurity clustering in the edge plasma of tokamaks. Journal of Plasma Physics, 2025, 91 (1), pp.E30. ⟨10.1017/S0022377824001259⟩. ⟨hal-04941575⟩
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