Modeling of particulate production in the SIRENS plasma disruption simulator

Modeling of the complex interplay among plasma physics, fluid mechanics, an d aerosol dynamics is critical to providing a detailed understanding of the mechanisms responsible for particulate production from plasma-surface inte raction in fusion devices. Plasma/fluid and aerosol models developed for an alysis of disruption simulation experiments in the SIRENS high heat flux fa cility integrate the necessary mechanisms of plasma-material interaction, p lasma and fluid flow, and particulate generation and transport. The model s uccessfully predicts the size distribution of primary particulate generated in SIRENS disruption-induced material mobilization experiments, (C) 2001 E lsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.