Otto Asunta, Patrick Blanchard, Yann Camenen, Stefano Coda, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Jonathan Marc Philippe Faustin, Davide Galassi, Javier García Hernández, Jonathan Graves, Jan Horacek, Samuel Lanthaler, Yves Martin, Mikhail Maslov, Federico Nespoli, Hamish William Patten, Alessandro Pau, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, David Pfefferlé, Richard Pitts, Olivier Sauter, Cristian Sommariva, Duccio Testa, Nicola Vianello, Henri Weisen, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Marco Wischmeier, Liang Yao, Yao Zhou
ERO is a 3D Monte-Carlo impurity transport and plasma-surface interaction code. In 2011 it was applied for the ITER first wall (FW) life time predictions [1] (critical blanket module BM11). After that the same code was significantly improved during its application to existing fusion-relevant plasma devices: the tokamak JET equipped with an ITER-like wall and linear plasma device PISCES-B. This has allowed testing the sputtering data for beryllium (Be) and showing that the "ERO-min" fit based on the large (50%) deuterium (D) surface content is well suitable for plasma-wetted areas (D plasma). The improved procedure for calculating of the effective sputtering yields for each location along the plasma-facing surface using the recently developed semi-analytical sheath approach was validated. The re-evaluation of the effective yields for BM11 following the similar revisit of the JET data has indicated significant increase of erosion and motivated the current re-visit of ERO simulations.
2019