The burning fraction of fuel particles is a crucial issue for future fusion reactors. In order to achieve the high tritium burning fraction required by China Fusion Engineering Test Reactor (CFETR) engineering design, fueling depths and quantities should be estimated by particle control analysis for different scenarios. Thus, in this paper, a multi-species fluid model of deuterium-tritium (D-T) fusion plasmas is applied to study radial transport and profile evolution with CFETR parameters under different fueling conditions. In the model, alpha particles are treated with a slowing down model and diffusion coefficients are introduced according to τ E _ 9 8 . Then, in such a self-consistent burning plasma simulation, the results show that the fusion reaction and fueling parameters effect remarkably changes the shape of D/T profiles, while to alphas and helium ash however, the effect of the fueling parameters is much weaker. It is also seen that the burning fraction is increased substantially with the fueling depth, and significantly affected by particle confinement. Furthermore, by substantially raising the D:T ratio to the regime of above unity, the burning fraction can be increased notably, but with a cost of a certain level of fusion power reduction.

Tritium self-sufficiency in future DT fusion reactor is a crucial challenge. As an engineering test reactor, CFETR requires a burning fraction of 3% for the goal to test the accessibility to the future fusion plant. To self-consistently simulate burning plasmas with profile changes in pellet injection scenarios and to estimate the corresponding burning fraction, a one-dimensional (1-D) multi-species radial transport model is developed in BOUT++ frame. Several pellet-fueling scenarios are then tested in the model. Results show that the increased fueling depth improves the burning fraction by particle confinement improvement and fusion power increase. Nevertheless, by increasing the depth, the pellet cooling-down may significantly lower the temperature in the core region. Taking the density perturbation into consideration, the reasonable parameters of the fueling scenario in these simulations are estimated as the pellet radius r_p=3 mm, the injection rate = 4 Hz , the pellet injection velocity =1000–2000 m/s without drift or 450 m/s with high filed side (HFS) drift.