Nonlinear Saturation of Toroidal Alfven Eigenmodes
Journal Article
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· Physical Review Letters; (United States)
- Associazione EURATOM-Comitato Nazionale per la Ricerca e per lo Sviluppo dell'Energia Nucleare e delle Energie Alternative (ENEA) sulla Fusione, Centro Ricerche Energetiche (CRE) Frascati, CP 65, 00044 Frascati, Rome (Italy)
The saturation of toroidal Alfven eigenmodes (TAE) due to the effect of magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) nonlinearities is analyzed. The saturation level scales as ([ital a]/[ital R][sub 0])[sup 5/2] (the ratio of the minor to the major radius of the torus), and for typical values of the inverse aspect ratio [epsilon]=[ital a]/[ital R][sub 0], it is comparable with that predicted when the saturation mechanism is due to a nonlinear reduction in the energetic particle drive. The MHD saturation mechanism is thus expected to be potentially relevant to the nonlinear TAE dynamics.
- OSTI ID:
- 6849908
- Journal Information:
- Physical Review Letters; (United States), Vol. 74:5; ISSN 0031-9007
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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ASPECT RATIO
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NONLINEAR PROBLEMS
NUMERICAL DATA
SATURATION
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