Bifurcation of quiescent H-mode to a wide pedestal regime in DIII-D and advances in the understanding of edge harmonic oscillations
Abstract
New experimental studies and modelling of the coherent Edge Harmonic Oscillation (EHO), which regulates the conventional Quiescent H-mode (QH-mode) edge, validate the proposed hypothesis of edge rotational shear in destabilizing the low-n kink peeling mode as the additional drive mechanism for the EHO. The observed minimum edge ExB shear required for the EHO decreases linearly with pedestal collisionality v$$*\atop{e}$$, which is favorable for operating QH-mode in machines with low collisionality and low rotation such as ITER. In addition, the QH-mode regime in DIII-D has recently been found to bifurcate into a new ‘wide-pedestal’ state at low torque in double-null shaped plasmas, characterized by increased pedestal height, width and thermal energy confinement [Burrell POP 23 (2016) 056103, Chen NF 57 (2017) 022007]. This potentially provides an alternate path for achieving high performance ELM-stable operation at low torque, in addition to the low-torque QH-mode sustained with applied 3D fields. Multi-branch low-k and intermediate-k turbulences are observed in the ‘wide-pedestal’. New experiments support the hypothesis that the decreased edge ExB shear enables destabilization of broadband turbulence, which relaxes edge pressure gradients, improves peeling-ballooning stability and allows a wider and thus higher pedestal. The ability to accurately predict the critical ExB shear for EHO and maintain high performance QH-mode at low torque is an essential requirement for projecting QH-mode operation to ITER and future machines.
- Authors:
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- General Atomics, San Diego, CA (United States)
- Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States)
- Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States)
- Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States); General Atomics, San Diego, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- Contributing Org.:
- The DIII-D Team
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1373372
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1374546
- Grant/Contract Number:
- FG02-08ER54999; AC02-09CH11466; FG02-94ER54235; FG02-08ER54984; FC02-04ER54698
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Nuclear Fusion
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 57; 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; QH-mode; EHO; low torque; ELM free; E×B shear; pedestal; edge broadband MHD
Citation Formats
Chen, Xi, Burrell, K. H., Osborne, T. H., Barada, K., Ferraro, N. M., Garofalo, A. M., Groebner, R. J., McKee, G. R., Petty, C. C., Porkolab, M., Rhodes, T. L., Rost, J. C., Snyder, P. B., Solomon, W. M., and Yan, Z. Bifurcation of quiescent H-mode to a wide pedestal regime in DIII-D and advances in the understanding of edge harmonic oscillations. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1088/1741-4326/aa7531.
Chen, Xi, Burrell, K. H., Osborne, T. H., Barada, K., Ferraro, N. M., Garofalo, A. M., Groebner, R. J., McKee, G. R., Petty, C. C., Porkolab, M., Rhodes, T. L., Rost, J. C., Snyder, P. B., Solomon, W. M., & Yan, Z. Bifurcation of quiescent H-mode to a wide pedestal regime in DIII-D and advances in the understanding of edge harmonic oscillations. United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/aa7531
Chen, Xi, Burrell, K. H., Osborne, T. H., Barada, K., Ferraro, N. M., Garofalo, A. M., Groebner, R. J., McKee, G. R., Petty, C. C., Porkolab, M., Rhodes, T. L., Rost, J. C., Snyder, P. B., Solomon, W. M., and Yan, Z. Wed .
"Bifurcation of quiescent H-mode to a wide pedestal regime in DIII-D and advances in the understanding of edge harmonic oscillations". United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/aa7531. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1373372.
@article{osti_1373372,
title = {Bifurcation of quiescent H-mode to a wide pedestal regime in DIII-D and advances in the understanding of edge harmonic oscillations},
author = {Chen, Xi and Burrell, K. H. and Osborne, T. H. and Barada, K. and Ferraro, N. M. and Garofalo, A. M. and Groebner, R. J. and McKee, G. R. and Petty, C. C. and Porkolab, M. and Rhodes, T. L. and Rost, J. C. and Snyder, P. B. and Solomon, W. M. and Yan, Z.},
abstractNote = {New experimental studies and modelling of the coherent Edge Harmonic Oscillation (EHO), which regulates the conventional Quiescent H-mode (QH-mode) edge, validate the proposed hypothesis of edge rotational shear in destabilizing the low-n kink peeling mode as the additional drive mechanism for the EHO. The observed minimum edge ExB shear required for the EHO decreases linearly with pedestal collisionality v$*\atop{e}$, which is favorable for operating QH-mode in machines with low collisionality and low rotation such as ITER. In addition, the QH-mode regime in DIII-D has recently been found to bifurcate into a new ‘wide-pedestal’ state at low torque in double-null shaped plasmas, characterized by increased pedestal height, width and thermal energy confinement [Burrell POP 23 (2016) 056103, Chen NF 57 (2017) 022007]. This potentially provides an alternate path for achieving high performance ELM-stable operation at low torque, in addition to the low-torque QH-mode sustained with applied 3D fields. Multi-branch low-k and intermediate-k turbulences are observed in the ‘wide-pedestal’. New experiments support the hypothesis that the decreased edge ExB shear enables destabilization of broadband turbulence, which relaxes edge pressure gradients, improves peeling-ballooning stability and allows a wider and thus higher pedestal. The ability to accurately predict the critical ExB shear for EHO and maintain high performance QH-mode at low torque is an essential requirement for projecting QH-mode operation to ITER and future machines.},
doi = {10.1088/1741-4326/aa7531},
journal = {Nuclear Fusion},
number = 8,
volume = 57,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Jun 14 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Wed Jun 14 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
}
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