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Electromagnetic analysis of transient disruption forces on the ITER shield modules

Kotulski, J.D.; Coats, Rebecca S.; Pasik, Michael F.

This paper describes the eddy current computation and the resultant forces and torques on selected shield modules assigned to the US team that occur due to plasma disruption. The plasma disruption considered is referred to as major disruption (MD) and is one of the disruption cases defined by the International Organization (IO). This paper identifies the applicability of geometrical simplifications for future design analyses. In particular it is shown that cutting a module in half does not preserve the physics of the eddy current generation and resultant calculations while modeling a full module including the nearest modules does preserve the fundamental physics. The force results are shown for shield modules 7 and 13 exposing the validity of geometrical simplifications. The computed torque for these two modules is also presented. © 2008 Elsevier B.V.