Sputtering Erosion of Fusion Reactor Cavity Walls

摘要

Devised are functions that describe the empirically and theoretically determined behavior of sputtering coefficients. These functions are used in a computer program that calculates erosion rates and total erosion of surfaces bombarded by ion beams of specified intensity. Presented here are analytic expressions that describe the effects of ion energy and angle of incidence, computational procedures, and results. Results, computed for alpha, triton, deuteron, and heavy-metal ions bombarding niobium, carbon, and iron surfaces indicate that for pellets with heavy metal shell structures sputtering erosion should be carefully considered and properly designed for.