Electron reflection effects on particle and heat fluxes to positively charged dust subject to strong electron emission

QC 20180726
A new model describing dust charging and heating in unmagnetized plasmas in the presence of large electron emission currents is presented. By accounting for the formation of a potential well due to trapped emitted electrons when the dust is positively charged, this model extends the so-called OML+ approach, thus far limited to thermionic emission, by including electron-induced emission processes, and in particular low-energy quasi-elastic electron reflection. Revised semi-analytical formulas for the current and heat fluxes associated with emitted electrons are successfully validated against particle-in-cell simulations and predict an overall reduction of dust heating by up to a factor of 2. When applied to tungsten dust heating in divertor-like plasmas, the new model predicts that the dust lifetime increases by up to 80%, as compared with standard orbital-motion-limited estimates.

Delzanno, G. L.Los Alamos Natl Lab, Theoret Div, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA. (author)
Tolias, Panagiotis,1984-KTH,Rymd- och plasmafysik(Swepub:kth)u1p3186s (author)
Ratynskaia, Svetlana V.KTH,Rymd- och plasmafysik(Swepub:kth)u1p4172h (author)
KTHRymd- och plasmafysik (creator_code:org_t)

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