Enhanced toroidal flow stabilization of edge localized modes with increased plasma density
Abstract
Toroidal flow alone is generally thought to have an important influence on tokamak edge pedestal stability, even though theoretical analysis often predicts merely a weak stabilizing effect of toroidal flow on the edge localized modes (ELMs) in experimental parameter regimes. For the first time, we find from two-fluid MHD calculations that such a stabilization, however, can be significantly enhanced by increasing the edge plasma density. Our finding resolves a long-standing mystery whether or how toroidal rotation can indeed have an effective influence on ELMs, and explains why the ELM mitigation and suppression by toroidal rotation are more favorably achieved in higher collisionality regime in recent experiments. Furthermore, the finding suggests a new control scheme on modulating toroidal flow stabilization of ELMs with plasma density, along with a new additional constraint on the optimal level of plasma density for the desired edge plasma conditions
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- Univ. of Science and Technology of China, Anhui (People's Republic of China)
- Univ. of Science and Technology of China, Anhui (People's Republic of China); Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI (United States)
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- Research Org.:
- Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1474295
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1377086
- Grant/Contract Number:
- FG02-86ER53218; AC02-05CH11231; FC02-08ER54975
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physics of Plasmas
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 24; Journal Issue: 9; Journal ID: ISSN 1070-664X
- Publisher:
- American Institute of Physics (AIP)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY
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Cheng, Shikui, Zhu, Ping, and Banerjee, Debabrata. Enhanced toroidal flow stabilization of edge localized modes with increased plasma density. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.1063/1.4990978.
Cheng, Shikui, Zhu, Ping, & Banerjee, Debabrata. Enhanced toroidal flow stabilization of edge localized modes with increased plasma density. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4990978
Cheng, Shikui, Zhu, Ping, and Banerjee, Debabrata. Mon .
"Enhanced toroidal flow stabilization of edge localized modes with increased plasma density". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4990978. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1474295.
@article{osti_1474295,
title = {Enhanced toroidal flow stabilization of edge localized modes with increased plasma density},
author = {Cheng, Shikui and Zhu, Ping and Banerjee, Debabrata},
abstractNote = {Toroidal flow alone is generally thought to have an important influence on tokamak edge pedestal stability, even though theoretical analysis often predicts merely a weak stabilizing effect of toroidal flow on the edge localized modes (ELMs) in experimental parameter regimes. For the first time, we find from two-fluid MHD calculations that such a stabilization, however, can be significantly enhanced by increasing the edge plasma density. Our finding resolves a long-standing mystery whether or how toroidal rotation can indeed have an effective influence on ELMs, and explains why the ELM mitigation and suppression by toroidal rotation are more favorably achieved in higher collisionality regime in recent experiments. Furthermore, the finding suggests a new control scheme on modulating toroidal flow stabilization of ELMs with plasma density, along with a new additional constraint on the optimal level of plasma density for the desired edge plasma conditions},
doi = {10.1063/1.4990978},
journal = {Physics of Plasmas},
number = 9,
volume = 24,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Aug 28 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Mon Aug 28 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
}
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