AORSA full wave calculations of helicon waves in DIII-D and ITER
Abstract
Helicon waves have been recently proposed as an off-axis current drive actuator for DIII-D, FNSF, and DEMO tokamaks. Previous ray tracing modeling using GENRAY predicts strong single pass absorption and current drive in the mid-radius region on DIII-D in high beta tokamak discharges. The full wave code AORSA, which is valid to all order of Larmor radius and can resolve arbitrary ion cyclotron harmonics, has been used to validate the ray tracing technique. If the scrape-off-layer (SOL) is ignored in the modeling, AORSA agrees with GENRAY in both the amplitude and location of driven current for DIII-D and ITER cases. These models also show that helicon current drive can possibly be an efficient current drive actuator for ITER. Previous GENRAY analysis did not include the SOL. AORSA has also been used to extend the simulations to include the SOL and to estimate possible power losses of helicon waves in the SOL. AORSA calculations show that another mode can propagate in the SOL and lead to significant (~10-20%) SOL losses at high SOL densities. Optimizing the SOL density profile can reduce these SOL losses to a few percent.
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[1];
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- XCEL Engineering, Inc., Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States)
- General Atomics, San Diego, CA (United States)
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- Research Org.:
- Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States); General Atomics, San Diego, CA (United States); Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1432839
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1432710; OSTI ID: 1435208
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725; AC02-09CH11466; FC02-04ER54698
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Nuclear Fusion
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 58; Journal Issue: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 0029-5515
- Publisher:
- IOP Science
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; helicon; current drive; AORSA; electromagnetic simulation; DIII-D; ITER; tokamak
Citation Formats
Lau, C., Jaeger, E. F., Bertelli, N., Berry, L. A., Green, D. L., Murakami, M., Park, J. M., Pinsker, R. I., and Prater, R. AORSA full wave calculations of helicon waves in DIII-D and ITER. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1088/1741-4326/aab96d.
Lau, C., Jaeger, E. F., Bertelli, N., Berry, L. A., Green, D. L., Murakami, M., Park, J. M., Pinsker, R. I., & Prater, R. AORSA full wave calculations of helicon waves in DIII-D and ITER. United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/aab96d
Lau, C., Jaeger, E. F., Bertelli, N., Berry, L. A., Green, D. L., Murakami, M., Park, J. M., Pinsker, R. I., and Prater, R. Wed .
"AORSA full wave calculations of helicon waves in DIII-D and ITER". United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/aab96d. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1432839.
@article{osti_1432839,
title = {AORSA full wave calculations of helicon waves in DIII-D and ITER},
author = {Lau, C. and Jaeger, E. F. and Bertelli, N. and Berry, L. A. and Green, D. L. and Murakami, M. and Park, J. M. and Pinsker, R. I. and Prater, R.},
abstractNote = {Helicon waves have been recently proposed as an off-axis current drive actuator for DIII-D, FNSF, and DEMO tokamaks. Previous ray tracing modeling using GENRAY predicts strong single pass absorption and current drive in the mid-radius region on DIII-D in high beta tokamak discharges. The full wave code AORSA, which is valid to all order of Larmor radius and can resolve arbitrary ion cyclotron harmonics, has been used to validate the ray tracing technique. If the scrape-off-layer (SOL) is ignored in the modeling, AORSA agrees with GENRAY in both the amplitude and location of driven current for DIII-D and ITER cases. These models also show that helicon current drive can possibly be an efficient current drive actuator for ITER. Previous GENRAY analysis did not include the SOL. AORSA has also been used to extend the simulations to include the SOL and to estimate possible power losses of helicon waves in the SOL. AORSA calculations show that another mode can propagate in the SOL and lead to significant (~10-20%) SOL losses at high SOL densities. Optimizing the SOL density profile can reduce these SOL losses to a few percent.},
doi = {10.1088/1741-4326/aab96d},
journal = {Nuclear Fusion},
number = 6,
volume = 58,
place = {United States},
year = {2018},
month = {4}
}
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