Simulations of enhanced reversed shear TFTR discharges with lower hybrid current drive
- MIT Plasma Fusion Center, Cambridge, MA (United States)
- Princeton Plasma Physics Lab., NJ (United States)
The BALDUR based BBK code permits predictive simulations of time-dependent tokamak discharges and has the capability to include neutral beam heating, pellet injection, bootstrap currents and lower hybrid current drive. BALDUR contains a theory based multi-regime transport model and previous work has shown excellent agreement with both L-mode and supershot TFTR discharges. These simulations reveal that core transport is dominated by {eta}{sub i} and trapped electron modes and the outer region by resistive ballooning. We simulate enhanced reverse shear discharges by beginning with a supershot simulation with a reversed shear profile. Similarly to the TFTR experiments the reversed shear profile is obtained through the programming of the current during startup and the freezing in of these profiles by subsequent heating. At the time of transition into the enhanced confinement regime we turn off the {eta}{sub i} and trapped-electron mode transport. We examine the further modification of the plasma current profile that can be obtained with the application of lower hybrid current drive. The results of these simulations will be discussed.
- OSTI ID:
- 489398
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-960354--
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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