The studies on tungsten (W) sputtering and transport characteristics on EAST tokamak under resonant magnetic perturbation (RMP) fields have been performed with the three-dimensional edge transport code EMC3-EIRENE. The estimation of the W sputtering flux has been carried out based on EMC3-EIRENE modeling for RMP and no RMP applications. The W sputtering flux shows a small difference between RMP and no RMP cases due to weak sensitivity of W sputtering yield on deuterium impact energy for low edge plasma density. However, for high edge plasma density, the strong dependence of W sputtering yield on deuterium impact energy comes into play, which results in a remarkable difference in the W sputtering flux between RMP and no RMP cases. Impacts of the W impurity perpendicular transport on W ions transport have been investigated. With low W perpendicular transport coefficient for RMP case, the edge plasma has a better W ions screening effect for high edge plasma density. The increased W perpendicular transport coefficient results in a good W ions screening effect for both high and low edge plasma densities.
Investigation of RMP induced density pump-out on EAST