Helical variation of density profiles and fluctuations in the tokamak pedestal with applied 3D fields and implications for confinement
Abstract
Small 3D perturbations to the magnetic field in DIII-D (δΒ / Β ~ 2 × 10 (superscript -4)) result in large modulations of density fluctuation amplitudes in the pedestal, which are shown using Doppler backscattering measurements to vary by a factor of 2. Helical perturbations of equilibrium density within flux surfaces have previously been observed in the pedestal of DIII-D plasmas when 3D fields are applied and were correlated with density fluctuation asymmetries in the pedestal. These intra-surface density and pressure variations are shown through two fluid MHD modeling studies using the M3D-C1 code to be due to the misalignment of the density and temperature equilibrium iso-surfaces in the pedestal region. This modeling demonstrates that the phase shift between the two iso-surfaces corresponds to the diamagnetic direction of the two species, with the mass density surfaces shifted in the ion diamagnetic direction relative to the temperature and magnetic flux iso-surfaces. The resulting pedestal density, potential, and turbulence asymmetries within flux surfaces near the separatrix may be at least partially responsible for several poorly understood phenomena that occur with the application of 3D fields in tokamaks, including density pump out and the increase in power required to transition from L- tomore »
- Authors:
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- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
- Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States)
- General Atomics, San Diego, CA (United States)
- Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States). Dept. of Engineering Physics
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States); Univ. of California, Los Angeles, CA (United States); Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States); General Atomics, San Diego, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Fusion Energy Sciences (FES); USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1435203
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1433757; OSTI ID: 1437165; OSTI ID: 1466651; OSTI ID: 1482103
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725; AC02-09CH11466; FG02-99ER54527; FG02-08ER54984; FG02-08ER54999; FC02-04ER54698
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physics of Plasmas
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 25; Journal Issue: 5; 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; plasma flows; turbulent flows; plasma confinement; tokamaks; hydrodynamics; thermodynamic processes; computer science and technology; deformation; turbulence simulations; diamagnetism
Citation Formats
Wilcox, R. S., Rhodes, T. L., Shafer, M. W., Sugiyama, L. E., Ferraro, N. M., Lyons, B. C., McKee, G. R., Paz-Soldan, C., Wingen, A., and Zeng, L. Helical variation of density profiles and fluctuations in the tokamak pedestal with applied 3D fields and implications for confinement. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1063/1.5024378.
Wilcox, R. S., Rhodes, T. L., Shafer, M. W., Sugiyama, L. E., Ferraro, N. M., Lyons, B. C., McKee, G. R., Paz-Soldan, C., Wingen, A., & Zeng, L. Helical variation of density profiles and fluctuations in the tokamak pedestal with applied 3D fields and implications for confinement. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5024378
Wilcox, R. S., Rhodes, T. L., Shafer, M. W., Sugiyama, L. E., Ferraro, N. M., Lyons, B. C., McKee, G. R., Paz-Soldan, C., Wingen, A., and Zeng, L. Thu .
"Helical variation of density profiles and fluctuations in the tokamak pedestal with applied 3D fields and implications for confinement". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5024378. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1435203.
@article{osti_1435203,
title = {Helical variation of density profiles and fluctuations in the tokamak pedestal with applied 3D fields and implications for confinement},
author = {Wilcox, R. S. and Rhodes, T. L. and Shafer, M. W. and Sugiyama, L. E. and Ferraro, N. M. and Lyons, B. C. and McKee, G. R. and Paz-Soldan, C. and Wingen, A. and Zeng, L.},
abstractNote = {Small 3D perturbations to the magnetic field in DIII-D (δΒ / Β ~ 2 × 10 (superscript -4)) result in large modulations of density fluctuation amplitudes in the pedestal, which are shown using Doppler backscattering measurements to vary by a factor of 2. Helical perturbations of equilibrium density within flux surfaces have previously been observed in the pedestal of DIII-D plasmas when 3D fields are applied and were correlated with density fluctuation asymmetries in the pedestal. These intra-surface density and pressure variations are shown through two fluid MHD modeling studies using the M3D-C1 code to be due to the misalignment of the density and temperature equilibrium iso-surfaces in the pedestal region. This modeling demonstrates that the phase shift between the two iso-surfaces corresponds to the diamagnetic direction of the two species, with the mass density surfaces shifted in the ion diamagnetic direction relative to the temperature and magnetic flux iso-surfaces. The resulting pedestal density, potential, and turbulence asymmetries within flux surfaces near the separatrix may be at least partially responsible for several poorly understood phenomena that occur with the application of 3D fields in tokamaks, including density pump out and the increase in power required to transition from L- to H-mode.},
doi = {10.1063/1.5024378},
journal = {Physics of Plasmas},
number = 5,
volume = 25,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Apr 19 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Thu Apr 19 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}
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