High-beta steady-state research with integrated modeling in the JT-60 Upgrade

doi:10.1063/1.2718518

Title: High-beta steady-state research with integrated modeling in the JT-60 Upgrade

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Improvement of high-beta performance and its long sustainment was obtained with ferritic steel tiles in the JT-60 Upgrade (JT-60U) [T. Fujita et al., Phys. Plasmas 50, 104 (2005)], which were installed inside the vacuum vessel to reduce fast ion loss by decreasing the toroidal field ripple. When a separation between the plasma surface and the wall was small, high-beta plasmas reached the ideal wall stability limit, i.e., the ideal magnetohydrodynamics stability limit with the wall stabilization. A small rotation velocity of 0.3% of the Alfven velocity was found to be effective for suppressing the resistive wall mode. Sustainment of the high normalized beta value of {beta}{sub N}=2.3 has been extended to 28.6 s ({approx}15 times the current diffusion time) by improvement of the confinement and increase in the net heating power. Based on the research in JT-60U experiments and first-principle simulations, integrated models of core, edge-pedestal, and scrape-off-layer (SOL) divertors were developed, and they clarified complex features of reactor-relevant plasmas. The integrated core plasma model indicated that the small amount of electron cyclotron (EC) current density of about half the bootstrap current density could effectively stabilize the neoclassical tearing mode by the localized EC current accurately aligned to the magneticmore »« less

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Ozeki, T. ^[1]

Fusion Research and Development Directorate, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Naka, Ibaraki 311-0193 (Japan)

Publication Date:: Tue May 15 00:00:00 EDT 2007

OSTI Identifier:: 20975052

Resource Type:: Journal Article

Resource Relation:: Journal Name: Physics of Plasmas; Journal Volume: 14; Journal Issue: 5; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.2718518; (c) 2007 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; BOOTSTRAP CURRENT; CYCLOTRONS; EDGE LOCALIZED MODES; ELECTRONS; ENERGY LOSSES; FERRITIC STEELS; HIGH-BETA PLASMA; JT-60 TOKAMAK; JT-60U TOKAMAK; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; NEOCLASSICAL TRANSPORT THEORY; PLASMA SCRAPE-OFF LAYER; SIMULATION; TEARING INSTABILITY; WALLS

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@article{osti_20975052,

  title        = {High-beta steady-state research with integrated modeling in the JT-60 Upgrade},

  author       = {Ozeki, T.},

  abstractNote = {Improvement of high-beta performance and its long sustainment was obtained with ferritic steel tiles in the JT-60 Upgrade (JT-60U) [T. Fujita et al., Phys. Plasmas 50, 104 (2005)], which were installed inside the vacuum vessel to reduce fast ion loss by decreasing the toroidal field ripple. When a separation between the plasma surface and the wall was small, high-beta plasmas reached the ideal wall stability limit, i.e., the ideal magnetohydrodynamics stability limit with the wall stabilization. A small rotation velocity of 0.3% of the Alfven velocity was found to be effective for suppressing the resistive wall mode. Sustainment of the high normalized beta value of {beta}{sub N}=2.3 has been extended to 28.6 s ({approx}15 times the current diffusion time) by improvement of the confinement and increase in the net heating power. Based on the research in JT-60U experiments and first-principle simulations, integrated models of core, edge-pedestal, and scrape-off-layer (SOL) divertors were developed, and they clarified complex features of reactor-relevant plasmas. The integrated core plasma model indicated that the small amount of electron cyclotron (EC) current density of about half the bootstrap current density could effectively stabilize the neoclassical tearing mode by the localized EC current accurately aligned to the magnetic island center. The integrated edge-pedestal model clarified that the collisionality dependence of energy loss due to the edge-localized mode was caused by the change in the width of the unstable mode and the SOL transport. The integrated SOL-divertor model clarified the effect of the exhaust slot on the pumping efficiency and the cause of enhanced radiation near the X-point multifaceted asymmetric radiation from edge. Success in these consistent analyses using the integrated code indicates that it is an effective means to investigate complex plasmas and to control the integrated performance.},

  doi          = {10.1063/1.2718518},

  journal      = {Physics of Plasmas},

  number       = 5,

  volume       = 14,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Tue May 15 00:00:00 EDT 2007},

  month        = {Tue May 15 00:00:00 EDT 2007}

}

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