Structure and overstability of resistive modes with runaway electrons
Abstract
In this paper, we investigate the effects of runaway electron current on the dispersion relation of resistive magnetohydrodynamic modes in tokamaks. We present a new theoretical model to derive the dispersion relation, which is based on the asymptotic analysis of the resistive layer structure of the modes. It is found that in addition to the conventional resistive layer, a new runaway current layer can emerge whose properties depend on the ratio of the Alfvén velocity to the runaway electron convection speed. Due to the contribution from this layer, both the tearing mode and kink mode will have a real frequency in addition to a growth rate. The derived dispersion relation has been compared with numerical results using both a simplified eigenvalue calculation and a M3D-C1 linear simulation, and good agreement is found in both cases.
- Authors:
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- Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States)
- Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States); Princeton Univ., NJ (United States)
- Princeton Univ., NJ (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Fusion Energy Sciences (FES); USDOE Office of Science (SC), Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1660473
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1658973
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0016268; AC02-09CH11466
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physics of Plasmas
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 27; 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
Citation Formats
Liu, Chang, Zhao, Chen, Jardin, Stephen C., Bhattacharjee, Amitava, Brennan, Dylan P., and Ferraro, Nathanial M. Structure and overstability of resistive modes with runaway electrons. United States: N. p., 2020.
Web. doi:10.1063/5.0018559.
Liu, Chang, Zhao, Chen, Jardin, Stephen C., Bhattacharjee, Amitava, Brennan, Dylan P., & Ferraro, Nathanial M. Structure and overstability of resistive modes with runaway electrons. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0018559
Liu, Chang, Zhao, Chen, Jardin, Stephen C., Bhattacharjee, Amitava, Brennan, Dylan P., and Ferraro, Nathanial M. Wed .
"Structure and overstability of resistive modes with runaway electrons". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0018559. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1660473.
@article{osti_1660473,
title = {Structure and overstability of resistive modes with runaway electrons},
author = {Liu, Chang and Zhao, Chen and Jardin, Stephen C. and Bhattacharjee, Amitava and Brennan, Dylan P. and Ferraro, Nathanial M.},
abstractNote = {In this paper, we investigate the effects of runaway electron current on the dispersion relation of resistive magnetohydrodynamic modes in tokamaks. We present a new theoretical model to derive the dispersion relation, which is based on the asymptotic analysis of the resistive layer structure of the modes. It is found that in addition to the conventional resistive layer, a new runaway current layer can emerge whose properties depend on the ratio of the Alfvén velocity to the runaway electron convection speed. Due to the contribution from this layer, both the tearing mode and kink mode will have a real frequency in addition to a growth rate. The derived dispersion relation has been compared with numerical results using both a simplified eigenvalue calculation and a M3D-C1 linear simulation, and good agreement is found in both cases.},
doi = {10.1063/5.0018559},
journal = {Physics of Plasmas},
number = 9,
volume = 27,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Sep 09 00:00:00 EDT 2020},
month = {Wed Sep 09 00:00:00 EDT 2020}
}
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