Development and validation of a critical gradient energetic particle driven Alfven eigenmode transport model for DIII-D tilted neutral beam experiments
Abstract
Recent experiments with the DIII-D tilted neutral beam injection (NBI) varying the beam energetic particle (EP) source profiles have provided strong evidence that unstable Alfven eigenmodes (AE) drive stiff EP transport at a critical EP density gradient. Here the critical gradient is identified by the local AE growth rate being equal to the local ITG/TEM growth rate at the same low toroidal mode number. The growth rates are taken from the gyrokinetic code GYRO. Simulation show that the slowing down beam-like EP distribution has a slightly lower critical gradient than the Maxwellian. The ALPHA EP density transport code, used to validate the model, combines the low-n stiff EP critical density gradient AE mid-core transport with the energy independent high-n ITG/TEM density transport model controling the central core EP density profile. For the on-axis NBI heated DIII-D shot 146102, while the net loss to the edge is small, about half the birth fast ions are transported from the central core r/a < 0.5 and the central density is about half the slowing down density. Lastly, these results are in good agreement with experimental fast ion pressure profiles inferred from MSE constrained EFIT equilibria.
- Authors:
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- General Atomics, San Diego, CA (United States)
- Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States)
- Univ. of California, Irvine, CA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- General Atomics, San Diego, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1352905
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1238865
- Grant/Contract Number:
- FC02-04ER54698; FC02-08ER54977; FG02-95ER54309
- Resource Type:
- Journal Article: Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Nuclear Fusion
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 55; Journal Issue: 12; Journal ID: ISSN 0029-5515
- Publisher:
- IOP Science
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; energetic particles; Alfven eigenmodes; critical gradient; transport
Citation Formats
Waltz, Ronald E., Bass, Eric M., Heidbrink, William W., and VanZeeland, Michael A. Development and validation of a critical gradient energetic particle driven Alfven eigenmode transport model for DIII-D tilted neutral beam experiments. United States: N. p., 2015.
Web. doi:10.1088/0029-5515/55/12/123012.
Waltz, Ronald E., Bass, Eric M., Heidbrink, William W., & VanZeeland, Michael A. Development and validation of a critical gradient energetic particle driven Alfven eigenmode transport model for DIII-D tilted neutral beam experiments. United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/0029-5515/55/12/123012
Waltz, Ronald E., Bass, Eric M., Heidbrink, William W., and VanZeeland, Michael A. 2015.
"Development and validation of a critical gradient energetic particle driven Alfven eigenmode transport model for DIII-D tilted neutral beam experiments". United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/0029-5515/55/12/123012. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1352905.
@article{osti_1352905,
title = {Development and validation of a critical gradient energetic particle driven Alfven eigenmode transport model for DIII-D tilted neutral beam experiments},
author = {Waltz, Ronald E. and Bass, Eric M. and Heidbrink, William W. and VanZeeland, Michael A.},
abstractNote = {Recent experiments with the DIII-D tilted neutral beam injection (NBI) varying the beam energetic particle (EP) source profiles have provided strong evidence that unstable Alfven eigenmodes (AE) drive stiff EP transport at a critical EP density gradient. Here the critical gradient is identified by the local AE growth rate being equal to the local ITG/TEM growth rate at the same low toroidal mode number. The growth rates are taken from the gyrokinetic code GYRO. Simulation show that the slowing down beam-like EP distribution has a slightly lower critical gradient than the Maxwellian. The ALPHA EP density transport code, used to validate the model, combines the low-n stiff EP critical density gradient AE mid-core transport with the energy independent high-n ITG/TEM density transport model controling the central core EP density profile. For the on-axis NBI heated DIII-D shot 146102, while the net loss to the edge is small, about half the birth fast ions are transported from the central core r/a < 0.5 and the central density is about half the slowing down density. Lastly, these results are in good agreement with experimental fast ion pressure profiles inferred from MSE constrained EFIT equilibria.},
doi = {10.1088/0029-5515/55/12/123012},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1352905},
journal = {Nuclear Fusion},
issn = {0029-5515},
number = 12,
volume = 55,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Oct 30 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Fri Oct 30 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
}
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