Behavior of falling pebble for pebble divertor

A pebble divertor concept is to use the now of multi layer pebbles as plasm a facing component. Tn the divertor plasma, the falling behavior of pebbles is affected by various forces: electromagnetic force, electrostatic force, plasma static pressure and plasma momentum flux The forces against pebbles in divertor plasma are calculated by referring the edge modeling result of an ITER CDA type divertor. The result of the calculation is that the behav ior of pebbles is dominantly affected by the plasma momentum flux The influ ence of the electromagnetic force, the electrostatic force and the plasma s tatic pressure on be negligible.