Modeling of Boundary Transport and Divertor Target Heat Flux - Implications for Advanced Divertor Concepts

Tokamaks are currently being designed and built to achieve net positive unharnessed fusion energy, an important milestone on the path to electricity production. Experimental trends predict an additional challenge in these upcoming devices: a decrease in the area of the metal wall on which the plasma...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ballinger, Sean Bozkurt
Other Authors: Terry, James L.
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2022
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/144888
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3593-6418