SCRAPE-OFF LAYER MODELING USING COUPLED PLASMA AND NEUTRAL TRANSPORT CODES

An effort is made to refine the neutral transport model used in the B2 edge plasma code by coupling it to the DEGAS Monte Carlo code. Results are discussed for a simulation of a high recycling divertor. It appears that on the order of 100 iterations between the two codes are required to achieve a converged solution. However, the amount of computer time used in the DEGAS simulations is large, making complete runs impractical for design purposes. On the other hand, the differences in the resulting plasma parameters when compared to the B2 analytic neutrals model indicate that it would be worthwhile to explore techniques for speeding up the coupled system of codes.