2014/03/31 by W. Arter, Wayne Arter, V. Riccardo +3 · 19 citations
Engineering · Materials Science · Physics and Astronomy · #CAD #Computer Aided Design #Computer science #Design tool #Divertor #Engineering #Engineering drawing #Fusion materials and technologies #Limiter #Magnetic confinement fusion research #Mechanical engineering #Nuclear engineering #Nuclear physics #Operating system #Physics #Plasma #Superconducting Materials and Applications #Tokamak #physics.plasm-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1109/tps.2014.2320904
published in IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science 42(7), 1932-1942 (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) · 13 pages, 20 figures
openalex publication_date 2014/06/23 · arxiv created 2016/04/05 · arxiv updated 2016/04/06 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
The SMARDDA software library is used to model plasma interaction with complex engineered surfaces. A simple flux-tube model of power deposition necessitates the following of magnetic fieldlines until they intersect the geometry taken from a computer aided design (CAD) database. Application is made to: 1) models of ITER tokamak limiter geometry and 2) MAST-U tokamak divertor designs, illustrating the accuracy and effectiveness of SMARDDA, even in the presence of significant nonaxisymmetric ripple field. SMARDDA's ability to exchange data with CAD databases and its speed of execution also gives it the potential for use directly in the design of tokamak plasma-facing components.