#159
Simulation of stochastic seed runaway electron transport and deposition after ITER dual-SPI by PTC & JOREK
Oral
Remote
Di Hu (Beihang University)
Yuxiang Sun, Feng Wang, Bo Li, the JOREK team
Abstract
Runaway electrons (REs) during the Current Quench pose a severe threat to the safe operation of future high performance tokamaks such as ITER. Localized, uncontrolled REs deposition onto the first wall can cause tremendous damage to the devices, especially if the REs replaces the bulk electrons as the main current carrier. One way to avoid such current replacement is to deplete the seed REs within the plasma through stochastic trajectory loss before they have time to avalanche. To investigate such stochastic transport behavior as part of the ITER disruption mitigation scheme, we carry out guiding center simulations of the seed REs with conservative higher-order magnetic moments using the PTC code based on fluid fields produced by JOREK simulations. We focus on an ITER plasma after Shattered Pellet Injection, which experiences breaking-up and healing of flux surfaces, and investigate the runaway electron transport properties as the stochasticity evolves. Self-similar density profiles and exponential decay of seed REs are found for cases with sufficiently stochastic magnetic field. The diffusion and advection of seed runaway electrons with various momentum, pitch angle and initial location are investigated and their corresponding transport coefficients are obtained statistically through the simulations and compared with the effective RE radial flux. We also examine their loss timescale and compare it with that of the runaway electron avalanche to estimate the efficiency of stochastic runaway electron depletion during the mitigation process. Finally, using a realistic 2D wall, we present the deposition pattern of runaway electrons on the first wall to estimate its asymmetry.