2 papers
physics.plasm-ph2026
RF-Specific Tungsten Erosion and Global Transport in ITER under Neon Seeding
Atul Kumar, Dhyanjyoti Nath, Wouter Tierens +15
Ion cyclotron radio-frequency heating (ICRH) is a key auxiliary heating system in ITER, but high-power RF operation can enhance plasma-material interactions through rectified RF sh…
physics.plasm-ph2024
Integrated modeling of RF-Induced Tungsten Erosion at ICRH Antenna Structures in the WEST Tokamak
A. Kumar, W. Tierens, T. Younkin +14
This paper introduces STRIPE (Simulated Transport of RF Impurity Production and Emission), an advanced modeling framework designed to analyze material erosion and the global transp…