Compressional Alfvén eigenmodes in rotating spherical tokamak plasmas
- Max-Planck-Inst. fur Plasmaphysik, Greifswald (Germany). Max-Planck/Princeton Center for Plasma Physics
- Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States)
Spherical tokamaks often have a considerable toroidal plasma rotation of several tens of kHz. Compressional Alfvén eigenmodes in such devices therefore experience a frequency shift, which if the plasma were rotating as a rigid body, would be a simple Doppler shift. However, since the rotation frequency depends on minor radius, the eigenmodes are affected in a more complicated way. The eigenmode solver CAE3B (Smith et al 2009 Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 51 075001) has been extended to account for toroidal plasma rotation. The results show that the eigenfrequency shift due to rotation can be approximated by a rigid body rotation with a frequency computed from a spatial average of the real rotation profile weighted with the eigenmode amplitude. To investigate the effect of extending the computational domain to the vessel wall, a simplified eigenmode equation, yet retaining plasma rotation, is solved by a modified version of the CAE code used in Fredrickson et al (2013 Phys. Plasmas 20 042112). Lastly, both solving the full eigenmode equation, as in the CAE3B code, and placing the boundary at the vessel wall, as in the CAE code, significantly influences the calculated eigenfrequencies.
- Research Organization:
- Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-09CH11466
- OSTI ID:
- 1368183
- Alternate ID(s):
- OSTI ID: 22718179
- Journal Information:
- Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, Journal Name: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion Journal Issue: 3 Vol. 59; ISSN 0741-3335
- Publisher:
- IOP ScienceCopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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