Transonic ablation flow regimes of high-Z pellets

2015/12/04 by Hyoungkeun Kim, Kim, Hyoungkeun, Roman Samulyak +3
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Magnetic confinement fusion research #Nuclear Physics and Applications #Nuclear reactor physics and engineering #Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1512.01583

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Abstract

In this letter, we report results of numerical studies of the ablation of argon and neon pellets in tokamaks and compare them with theoretical predictions and studies of deuterium pellets. Results demonstrate the influence of atomic physics processes on the pellet ablation process.

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