RF-driven advanced modes of ITER operation

Journal Article · Thu Nov 26 00:00:00 EST 2009 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3273758· OSTI ID:21335735

Garcia, J; Artaud, J F; Basiuk, V; Decker, J; Giruzzi, G; Hawkes, N; Imbeaux, F; Litaudon, X; Mailloux, J; Peysson, Y; Schneider, M ^[1]; Brix, M ^[2]

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1. CEA, IRFM, F-13108 Saint-Paul-lez-Durance (France)
2. UKAEA/Euratom Fusion Association, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon, Oxon, OX14 3DB (United Kingdom)

The impact of the Radio Frequency heating and current drive systems on the ITER advanced scenarios is analyzed by means of the CRONOS suite of codes for integrated tokamak modelling. As a first step, the code is applied to analyze a high power advanced scenario discharge of JET in order to validate both the heating and current drive modules and the overall simulation procedure. Then, ITER advanced scenarios, based on Radio Frequency systems, are studied on the basis of previous results. These simulations show that both hybrid and steady-state scenarios could be possible within the ITER specifications, using RF heating and current drive only.

• OSTI ID: 21335735
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1187, Issue 1; Conference: 18. topical conference on radio frequency power in plasmas, Gent (Belgium), 24-26 Jun 2009; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.3273758; (c) 2009 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY
C CODES
COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION
CURRENT-DRIVE HEATING
ELECTRIC DISCHARGES
HIGH-FREQUENCY HEATING
ITER TOKAMAK
JET TOKAMAK
OPERATION
PLASMA
PLASMA SIMULATION
RADIOWAVE RADIATION
RF SYSTEMS
STEADY-STATE CONDITIONS