Electron temperature critical gradient and transport stiffness in DIII-D
Abstract
The electron energy flux has been probed as a function of electron temperature gradient on the DIII-D tokamak, in a continuing effort to validate turbulent transport models. In the scan of gradient, a critical electron temperature gradient has been found in the electron heat fluxes and stiffness at various radii in L-mode plasmas. The TGLF reduced turbulent transport model [G.M. Staebler et al, Phys. Plasmas 14, 055909 (2007)] and full gyrokinetic GYRO model [J. Candy and R.E. Waltz, J. Comput. Phys. 186, 545 (2003)] recover the general trend of increasing electron energy flux with increasing electron temperature gradient scale length, but they do not predict the absolute level of transport at all radii and gradients. Comparing the experimental observations of incremental (heat pulse) diffusivity and stiffness to the models’ reveals that TGLF reproduces the trends in increasing diffusivity and stiffness with increasing electron temperature gradient scale length with a critical gradient behavior. Furthermore, the critical gradient of TGLF is found to have a dependence on q95, contrary to the independence of the experimental critical gradient from q95.
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- General Atomics, San Diego, CA (United States)
- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
- Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States)
- Fourth State Research, Austin, TX (United States)
- Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX (United States)
- Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- General Atomics, San Diego, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1345509
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1238892
- Grant/Contract Number:
- FC02-04ER54698; FC02-99ER54512; FG02-08ER54871; FG02-08ER54984; FG03-97ER54415
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Nuclear Fusion
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 55; Journal Issue: 8; Journal ID: ISSN 0029-5515
- Publisher:
- IOP Science
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY
Citation Formats
Smith, Sterling P., Petty, Clinton C., White, Anne E., Holland, Christopher, Bravenec, Ronald, Austin, Max E., Zeng, Lei, and Meneghini, Orso. Electron temperature critical gradient and transport stiffness in DIII-D. United States: N. p., 2015.
Web. doi:10.1088/0029-5515/55/8/083011.
Smith, Sterling P., Petty, Clinton C., White, Anne E., Holland, Christopher, Bravenec, Ronald, Austin, Max E., Zeng, Lei, & Meneghini, Orso. Electron temperature critical gradient and transport stiffness in DIII-D. United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/0029-5515/55/8/083011
Smith, Sterling P., Petty, Clinton C., White, Anne E., Holland, Christopher, Bravenec, Ronald, Austin, Max E., Zeng, Lei, and Meneghini, Orso. Mon .
"Electron temperature critical gradient and transport stiffness in DIII-D". United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/0029-5515/55/8/083011. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1345509.
@article{osti_1345509,
title = {Electron temperature critical gradient and transport stiffness in DIII-D},
author = {Smith, Sterling P. and Petty, Clinton C. and White, Anne E. and Holland, Christopher and Bravenec, Ronald and Austin, Max E. and Zeng, Lei and Meneghini, Orso},
abstractNote = {The electron energy flux has been probed as a function of electron temperature gradient on the DIII-D tokamak, in a continuing effort to validate turbulent transport models. In the scan of gradient, a critical electron temperature gradient has been found in the electron heat fluxes and stiffness at various radii in L-mode plasmas. The TGLF reduced turbulent transport model [G.M. Staebler et al, Phys. Plasmas 14, 055909 (2007)] and full gyrokinetic GYRO model [J. Candy and R.E. Waltz, J. Comput. Phys. 186, 545 (2003)] recover the general trend of increasing electron energy flux with increasing electron temperature gradient scale length, but they do not predict the absolute level of transport at all radii and gradients. Comparing the experimental observations of incremental (heat pulse) diffusivity and stiffness to the models’ reveals that TGLF reproduces the trends in increasing diffusivity and stiffness with increasing electron temperature gradient scale length with a critical gradient behavior. Furthermore, the critical gradient of TGLF is found to have a dependence on q95, contrary to the independence of the experimental critical gradient from q95.},
doi = {10.1088/0029-5515/55/8/083011},
journal = {Nuclear Fusion},
number = 8,
volume = 55,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Jul 06 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Mon Jul 06 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
}
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