Contribution of drifts and parallel currents to divertor asymmetries

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V. Rozhansky · Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University

P. Molchanov · Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University

I. Veselova · Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University

S. Voskoboynikov · Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University

A. Kirk · Culham Science Centre

D. Coster · Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics

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Abstract A systematical study of drift and parallel current effects is reported based on the analysis of the simulations by the B2SOLPS5.2 transport code. It is demonstrated that divertor asymmetry is caused or amplified by the poloidal drift and parallel thermal current.

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Magnetic confinement fusion research Superconducting Materials and Applications Fusion materials and technologies

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Published in: Nuclear Fusion

Volume 52, Issue 10, pp. 103017-103017

DOI: 10.1088/0029-5515/52/10/103017

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Contribution of drifts and parallel currents to divertor asymmetries

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