Investigation of energy transport in DIII-D High- β P EAST-demonstration discharges with the TGLF turbulent and NEO neoclassical transport models
Energy transport analyses of DIII-D high-βP EAST-demonstration discharges have been performed using the TGYRO transport package with TGLF turbulent and NEO neoclassical transport models under the OMFIT integrated modeling framework. Ion energy transport is shown to be dominated by neoclassical transport and ion temperature profiles predicted by TGYRO agree closely with the experimental measured profiles for these high- βP discharges. Ion energy transport is largely insensitive to reductions in the E × B flow shear stabilization. The Shafranov shift is shown to play a role in the suppression of the ion turbulent energy transport below the neoclassical level. Electron turbulent energy transport is under-predicted by TGLF and a significant shortfall in the electron energy transport over the whole core plasma is found with TGLF predictions for these high- βP discharges. TGYRO can successfully predict the experimental ion and electron temperature profiles by artificially increasing the saturated turbulence level for ETG driven modes used in TGLF.
- Research Organization:
- General Atomics, San Diego, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- FC02-04ER54698; FG03-95ER54309; 2014GB106001; 2015GB101000; 2015GB102001; 2015GB110001
- OSTI ID:
- 1338854
- Alternate ID(s):
- OSTI ID: 1338855; OSTI ID: 1372466; OSTI ID: 1374818
- Journal Information:
- Nuclear Fusion, Journal Name: Nuclear Fusion Vol. 57 Journal Issue: 3; ISSN 0029-5515
- Publisher:
- IOP PublishingCopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- IAEA
- Language:
- English
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