Stochastic clustering of the surface at the interaction of a plasma with materials

Abstract

The inhomogeneous stochastic clustering of the surface with the self-similarity of the granularity structure from nano- to macroscales is observed in various materials after the action of intense high-temperature plasma flows in nuclear fusion facilities. The spectral and statistical characteristics of hierarchical granularity and scale invariance are estimated. They qualitatively differ from the properties of the simplest Brownian surface roughness and clustering under other conditions possibly because of universal mechanisms of the formation of stochastic clustering of materials under the action of a high-temperature plasma.