Blob interaction in 2D scrape off layer simulations
arXiv:2007.04260 · doi:10.1063/5.0021314
Abstract
Interaction of coherent structures known as blobs in the scrape-off layer of magnetic confinement fusion devices is investigated. Isolated and interacting seeded blobs as well as full plasma turbulence are studied with a two dimensional fluid code. The features of the blobs (size, amplitude, position) are determined with a blob tracking algorithm, which identifies them as coherent structures above a chosen density threshold and compared to a conventional center of mass approach. The agreement of these two methods is shown to be affected by the parameters of the blob tracking algorithm. The benchmarked approach is then extended to a population of interacting plasma blobs with statistically distributed amplitudes, sizes and initial positions for different levels of intermittency. As expected, for decreasing intermittency, we observe an increasing number of blobs deviating from size-velocity scaling laws of perfectly isolated blobs. This is found to be caused by the interaction of blobs with the electrostatic potential of one another, leading to higher average blob velocities. The degree of variation from the picture of perfectly isolated blobs is quantified as a function of the average waiting time of the seeded blobs.
12 pages, 15 figures
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