Connection between plasma response and resonant magnetic perturbation (RMP) edge localized mode (ELM) suppression in DIII-D [Connection between plasma response and RMP ELM suppression in DIII-D]
Abstract
Calculations of the plasma response to applied non-axisymmetric elds in several DIII-D discharges show that predicted displacements depend strongly on the edge current density. This result is found using both a linear two- uid-MHD model (M3D-C1) and a nonlinear ideal-MHD model (VMEC). Furthermore, it is observed that the probability of a discharge to be edge localized mode (ELM)-suppressed is most closely related to the edge current density, as opposed to the pressure gradient. It is found that discharges with stronger kink-response are closer to the peeling-ballooning stability limit in ELITE simulations and eventually cross into the unstable region, causing ELMs to reappear. Thus for e ective ELM suppression, the RMP has to hold back the plasma from generating a large kink response, associated with ELM instability. Experimental observations are in agreement with the nding; discharges which have a strong kink response in the MHD simulations show ELMs or ELM mitigation during the RMP phase of the experiment while discharges with small kink response in the MHD simulations are fully ELM suppressed in the experiment by the applied resonant magnetic perturbation. The results are cross-checked against modeled 3-D ideal MHD equilibria, using the VMEC code. The procedure to construct optimal 3-Dmore »
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- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- General Atomics, San Diego, CA (United States)
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- Research Org.:
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); General Atomics, San Diego, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC); USDOE Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E); USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1265646
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1238958; OSTI ID: 1356345
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725; FC02-04ER54698
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 57; Journal Issue: 10; Journal ID: ISSN 0741-3335
- Publisher:
- IOP Science
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; tokamaks; magnetodydrodynamic; VMEC; M3D-Cl
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Wingen, Andreas, Ferraro, Nathaniel M., Shafer, Morgan W., Unterberg, Ezekial A., Canik, John M., Evans, Todd E., Hillis, Donald Lee, Hirshman, Steven Paul, Seal, Sudip K., Snyder, Philip B., and Sontag, Aaron C. Connection between plasma response and resonant magnetic perturbation (RMP) edge localized mode (ELM) suppression in DIII-D [Connection between plasma response and RMP ELM suppression in DIII-D]. United States: N. p., 2015.
Web. doi:10.1088/0741-3335/57/10/104006.
Wingen, Andreas, Ferraro, Nathaniel M., Shafer, Morgan W., Unterberg, Ezekial A., Canik, John M., Evans, Todd E., Hillis, Donald Lee, Hirshman, Steven Paul, Seal, Sudip K., Snyder, Philip B., & Sontag, Aaron C. Connection between plasma response and resonant magnetic perturbation (RMP) edge localized mode (ELM) suppression in DIII-D [Connection between plasma response and RMP ELM suppression in DIII-D]. United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/0741-3335/57/10/104006
Wingen, Andreas, Ferraro, Nathaniel M., Shafer, Morgan W., Unterberg, Ezekial A., Canik, John M., Evans, Todd E., Hillis, Donald Lee, Hirshman, Steven Paul, Seal, Sudip K., Snyder, Philip B., and Sontag, Aaron C. Thu .
"Connection between plasma response and resonant magnetic perturbation (RMP) edge localized mode (ELM) suppression in DIII-D [Connection between plasma response and RMP ELM suppression in DIII-D]". United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/0741-3335/57/10/104006. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1265646.
@article{osti_1265646,
title = {Connection between plasma response and resonant magnetic perturbation (RMP) edge localized mode (ELM) suppression in DIII-D [Connection between plasma response and RMP ELM suppression in DIII-D]},
author = {Wingen, Andreas and Ferraro, Nathaniel M. and Shafer, Morgan W. and Unterberg, Ezekial A. and Canik, John M. and Evans, Todd E. and Hillis, Donald Lee and Hirshman, Steven Paul and Seal, Sudip K. and Snyder, Philip B. and Sontag, Aaron C.},
abstractNote = {Calculations of the plasma response to applied non-axisymmetric elds in several DIII-D discharges show that predicted displacements depend strongly on the edge current density. This result is found using both a linear two- uid-MHD model (M3D-C1) and a nonlinear ideal-MHD model (VMEC). Furthermore, it is observed that the probability of a discharge to be edge localized mode (ELM)-suppressed is most closely related to the edge current density, as opposed to the pressure gradient. It is found that discharges with stronger kink-response are closer to the peeling-ballooning stability limit in ELITE simulations and eventually cross into the unstable region, causing ELMs to reappear. Thus for e ective ELM suppression, the RMP has to hold back the plasma from generating a large kink response, associated with ELM instability. Experimental observations are in agreement with the nding; discharges which have a strong kink response in the MHD simulations show ELMs or ELM mitigation during the RMP phase of the experiment while discharges with small kink response in the MHD simulations are fully ELM suppressed in the experiment by the applied resonant magnetic perturbation. The results are cross-checked against modeled 3-D ideal MHD equilibria, using the VMEC code. The procedure to construct optimal 3-D equilibria for diverted H-mode discharges using VMEC is presented. It is found that the kink displacements in VMEC scale with the edge current density, similar to M3D-C1, but the displacements are smaller. A direct correlation of the ux surface displacements to the bootstrap current is shown.},
doi = {10.1088/0741-3335/57/10/104006},
journal = {Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion},
number = 10,
volume = 57,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Sep 03 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Thu Sep 03 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
}
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