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Title: The MEMENTO code for modelling of macroscopic melt motion in fusion devices

Abstract: The MEMENTO (MEtallic Melt Evolution in Next-step TOkamaks) code is a new numerical implementation of the physics model originally developed for the MEMOS-U code with the objective to self-consistently describe the generation of melt and its subsequent large scale dynamics in fusion devices and to assess the damage of metallic reactor armor under powerful normal and off-normal plasma events. The model has been validated in multiple dedicated EUROfusion experiments. MEMENTO solves the heat and phase transfer problem coupled with the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations in the shallow water approximation for the thin liquid film over the solid metal and with the current propagation equations on a domain that features a time-evolving deforming metal-plasma interface. The code utilizes non-uniform and adaptive meshing along with sub-cycling in time facilitated by the AMReX open-source framework as well as AMReX's built-in parallelization capabilities.
Comments: 14 pages, 11 figures
Subjects: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph); Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
Cite as: arXiv:2404.12904 [physics.plasm-ph]
  (or arXiv:2404.12904v1 [physics.plasm-ph] for this version)

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From: Panagiotis Tolias [view email]
[v1] Fri, 19 Apr 2024 14:19:39 GMT (5704kb,D)

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