Contribution of drifts and parallel currents to divertor asymmetries
- 13 September 2012
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Nuclear Fusion
- Vol. 52 (10)
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0029-5515/52/10/103017
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.Keywords
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