Effect of Quasihelical Symmetry on Trapped-Electron Mode Transport in the HSX Stellarator
- Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706 (United States)
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831 (United States)
- Department of Physics, CSCAMM, IREAP, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742 (United States)
This Letter presents theory-based predictions of anomalous electron thermal transport in the Helically Symmetric eXperiment stellarator, using an axisymmetric trapped-electron mode drift wave model. The model relies on modifications to a tokamak geometry that approximate the quasihelical symmetry in the Helically Symmetric eXperiment (particle trapping and local curvature) and is supported by linear 3D gyrokinetic calculations. Transport simulations predict temperature profiles that agree with experimental profiles outside a normalized minor radius of {rho}>0.3 and energy confinement times that agree within 10% of measurements. The simulations can reproduce the large measured electron temperatures inside {rho}<0.3 if an approximation for turbulent transport suppression due to shear in the radial electric field is included.
- OSTI ID:
- 21179931
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review Letters, Vol. 101, Issue 21; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.215002; (c) 2008 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0031-9007
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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