Nonlinear reconnecting edge localized modes in current-carrying plasmas
Abstract
Nonlinear edge localized modes in a tokamak are examined using global three-dimensional resistive magnetohydrodynamics simulations. Coherent current-carrying filament (ribbon-like) structures wrapped around the torus are nonlinearly formed due to nonaxisymmetric reconnecting current sheet instabilities, the so-called peeling-like edge localized modes. These fast growing modes saturate by breaking axisymmetric current layers isolated near the plasma edge and go through repetitive relaxation cycles by expelling current radially outward and relaxing it back. The local bidirectional fluctuation-induced electromotive force (emf) from the edge localized modes, the dynamo action, relaxes the axisymmetric current density and forms current holes near the edge. Furthermore, the three-dimensional coherent current-carrying filament structures (sometimes referred to as 3-D plasmoids) observed here should also have strong implications for solar and astrophysical reconnection.
- Authors:
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- Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ (United States). Princeton Plasma Physics Lab.
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Fusion Energy Sciences (FES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1367324
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1361900
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-09CHI1466; SC0010565; SC0012467
- Resource Type:
- Journal Article: Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physics of Plasmas
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 24; Journal Issue: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 1070-664X
- Publisher:
- American Institute of Physics (AIP)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; x-point geometry; instabilities; simulation
Citation Formats
Ebrahimi, F. Nonlinear reconnecting edge localized modes in current-carrying plasmas. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1063/1.4983631.
Ebrahimi, F. Nonlinear reconnecting edge localized modes in current-carrying plasmas. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4983631
Ebrahimi, F. 2017.
"Nonlinear reconnecting edge localized modes in current-carrying plasmas". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4983631. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1367324.
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title = {Nonlinear reconnecting edge localized modes in current-carrying plasmas},
author = {Ebrahimi, F.},
abstractNote = {Nonlinear edge localized modes in a tokamak are examined using global three-dimensional resistive magnetohydrodynamics simulations. Coherent current-carrying filament (ribbon-like) structures wrapped around the torus are nonlinearly formed due to nonaxisymmetric reconnecting current sheet instabilities, the so-called peeling-like edge localized modes. These fast growing modes saturate by breaking axisymmetric current layers isolated near the plasma edge and go through repetitive relaxation cycles by expelling current radially outward and relaxing it back. The local bidirectional fluctuation-induced electromotive force (emf) from the edge localized modes, the dynamo action, relaxes the axisymmetric current density and forms current holes near the edge. Furthermore, the three-dimensional coherent current-carrying filament structures (sometimes referred to as 3-D plasmoids) observed here should also have strong implications for solar and astrophysical reconnection.},
doi = {10.1063/1.4983631},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1367324},
journal = {Physics of Plasmas},
issn = {1070-664X},
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place = {United States},
year = {Mon May 22 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Mon May 22 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
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