The role of toroidal rotation in the very high energy confinement quality observed in super H-mode experiments on DIII-D

Ding, S.; Garofalo, A. M.; Jian, X.; Holland, C.; Grierson, B. A.; Solomon, W. M.; Marinoni, A.; Knolker, M.; McClenaghan, J.

doi:10.7910/DVN/V8DGOJ

Title: The role of toroidal rotation in the very high energy confinement quality observed in super H-mode experiments on DIII-D

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In this paper, we report the key role that toroidal rotation and the related ExB shear physics played in the very high energy confinement quality (H98y2>1.5) of super H-mode experiments on DIII-D. Experiments show that the energy confinement quality decreases when toroidal rotation decreases due to the decreased externally controlled torque per particle. Meanwhile, the total pedestal pressure in the experiments remains very high during the rotation and confinement quality change. TGYRO transport modeling suggests the contribution from rotation in the ExB shear is responsible for the confinement quality in excess of standard H-mode (H98y2~1). CGYRO gyrokinetic simulations reveal the governing physics in the core plasma of super H-modes: significant up-shift of nonlinear the ITG critical gradient is observed when applying ExB shear physics in the modeling based on experimental data. The effects of other physical parameters and contribution from pedestal height, which may play minor roles in this study, are also discussed.

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Ding, S.; Garofalo, A. M.; Jian, X.; Holland, C.; Grierson, B. A.; Solomon, W. M.; Marinoni, A.; Knolker, M.; McClenaghan, J.

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Publication Date:: Thu Jun 09 04:00:00 UTC 2022

DOE Contract Number:: SC0010685; FC02-04ER54698; SC0018287; AC02-09CH11466; SC0016154

Research Org.:: General Atomics, San Diego, CA (United States); Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States); Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States); Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States). Plasma Science and Fusion Center

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Fusion Energy Sciences (FES)

Subject:: 70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY

OSTI Identifier:: 1888225

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/V8DGOJ

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                    Ding, S., Garofalo, A. M., Jian, X., Holland, C., Grierson, B. A., Solomon, W. M., Marinoni, A., Knolker, M., and McClenaghan, J. The role of toroidal rotation in the very high energy confinement quality observed in super H-mode experiments on DIII-D.  United States: N. p., 2022. 
        Web.  doi:10.7910/DVN/V8DGOJ.

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                    Ding, S., Garofalo, A. M., Jian, X., Holland, C., Grierson, B. A., Solomon, W. M., Marinoni, A., Knolker, M., & McClenaghan, J. The role of toroidal rotation in the very high energy confinement quality observed in super H-mode experiments on DIII-D.  United States.  doi:https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/V8DGOJ

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                    Ding, S., Garofalo, A. M., Jian, X., Holland, C., Grierson, B. A., Solomon, W. M., Marinoni, A., Knolker, M., and McClenaghan, J. 2022.  
"The role of toroidal rotation in the very high energy confinement quality observed in super H-mode experiments on DIII-D".  United States.  doi:https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/V8DGOJ.  https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1888225. Pub date:Thu Jun 09 04:00:00 UTC 2022

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@article{osti_1888225,

  title        = {The role of toroidal rotation in the very high energy confinement quality observed in super H-mode experiments on DIII-D},

  author       = {Ding, S. and Garofalo, A. M. and Jian, X. and Holland, C. and Grierson, B. A. and Solomon, W. M. and Marinoni, A. and Knolker, M. and McClenaghan, J.},

  abstractNote = {In this paper, we report the key role that toroidal rotation and the related ExB shear physics played in the very high energy confinement quality (H98y2>1.5) of super H-mode experiments on DIII-D. Experiments show that the energy confinement quality decreases when toroidal rotation decreases due to the decreased externally controlled torque per particle. Meanwhile, the total pedestal pressure in the experiments remains very high during the rotation and confinement quality change. TGYRO transport modeling suggests the contribution from rotation in the ExB shear is responsible for the confinement quality in excess of standard H-mode (H98y2~1). CGYRO gyrokinetic simulations reveal the governing physics in the core plasma of super H-modes: significant up-shift of nonlinear the ITG critical gradient is observed when applying ExB shear physics in the modeling based on experimental data. The effects of other physical parameters and contribution from pedestal height, which may play minor roles in this study, are also discussed.},

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