Simulations of tokamak boundary plasma turbulence transport in setting the divertor heat flux width
Abstract
The BOUT++ code has been used to simulate edge plasma electromagnetic (EM) turbulence and transport, and to study the role of EM turbulence in setting the scrape-off layer (SOL) heat flux width λq. More than a dozen tokamak discharges from C-Mod, DIII-D, EAST, ITER and CFETR have been simulated with encouraging success. The parallel electron heat fluxes onto the target from the BOUT++ simulations of C-Mod, DIII-D, and EAST follow the experimental heat flux width scaling of the inverse dependence on the poloidal magnetic field. Further turbulence statistics analysis shows that the blobs are generated near the pedestal pressure peak gradient region inside the separatrix and contribute to the transport of the particle and heat in the SOL region. Transport simulations indicate two distinct regimes: drift dominant regime and turbulence dominant regime. Goldston's heuristic drift-based (HD) model yields a consistent divertor heat flux width in the drift dominant regime. For C-Mod enhanced Dα H-mode discharges, drifts and turbulence are competing in setting the divertor heat flux width, possibly due to its compact machine size and good pedestal confinement. The simulations for ITER and CFETR indicate that divertor heat flux width λq of the future machines may no longer follows themore »
- Authors:
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- Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States); Dalian Univ. of Technology (China)
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States); Peking Univ., Beijing (China); General Atomics, San Diego, CA (United States)
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States); Univ. of Science and Technology of China, Hefei (China)
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States); Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei (China). Inst. of Plasma Physics
- Univ. of Science and Technology of China, Hefei (China); General Atomics, San Diego, CA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA); China Scholarship Committee
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1872686
- Report Number(s):
- LLNL-JRNL-765641
Journal ID: ISSN 0029-5515; 955085; TRN: US2306901
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC52-07NA27344; 201606060097; 201706010039; 201706340070
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Nuclear Fusion
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 59; Journal Issue: 12; Journal ID: ISSN 0029-5515
- Publisher:
- IOP Science
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; turbulence; drift; divertor heat flux width; C-Mod; ITER; CFETR; BOUT++
Citation Formats
Xu, X. Q., Li, N. M., Li, Z. Y., Chen, B., Xia, T. Y., Tang, T. F., Zhu, B., and Chan, V. S. Simulations of tokamak boundary plasma turbulence transport in setting the divertor heat flux width. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1088/1741-4326/ab430d.
Xu, X. Q., Li, N. M., Li, Z. Y., Chen, B., Xia, T. Y., Tang, T. F., Zhu, B., & Chan, V. S. Simulations of tokamak boundary plasma turbulence transport in setting the divertor heat flux width. United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/ab430d
Xu, X. Q., Li, N. M., Li, Z. Y., Chen, B., Xia, T. Y., Tang, T. F., Zhu, B., and Chan, V. S. Thu .
"Simulations of tokamak boundary plasma turbulence transport in setting the divertor heat flux width". United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/ab430d. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1872686.
@article{osti_1872686,
title = {Simulations of tokamak boundary plasma turbulence transport in setting the divertor heat flux width},
author = {Xu, X. Q. and Li, N. M. and Li, Z. Y. and Chen, B. and Xia, T. Y. and Tang, T. F. and Zhu, B. and Chan, V. S.},
abstractNote = {The BOUT++ code has been used to simulate edge plasma electromagnetic (EM) turbulence and transport, and to study the role of EM turbulence in setting the scrape-off layer (SOL) heat flux width λq. More than a dozen tokamak discharges from C-Mod, DIII-D, EAST, ITER and CFETR have been simulated with encouraging success. The parallel electron heat fluxes onto the target from the BOUT++ simulations of C-Mod, DIII-D, and EAST follow the experimental heat flux width scaling of the inverse dependence on the poloidal magnetic field. Further turbulence statistics analysis shows that the blobs are generated near the pedestal pressure peak gradient region inside the separatrix and contribute to the transport of the particle and heat in the SOL region. Transport simulations indicate two distinct regimes: drift dominant regime and turbulence dominant regime. Goldston's heuristic drift-based (HD) model yields a consistent divertor heat flux width in the drift dominant regime. For C-Mod enhanced Dα H-mode discharges, drifts and turbulence are competing in setting the divertor heat flux width, possibly due to its compact machine size and good pedestal confinement. The simulations for ITER and CFETR indicate that divertor heat flux width λq of the future machines may no longer follows the 1/Bpol,OMP HD-based empirical (Eich) scalings and the HD model gives a pessimistic limit of divertor heat flux width. The simulation results show a transition from a drift dominant regime to a turbulence dominant regime from current machines to future machines such as ITER and CFETR for two reasons. (1) The magnetic drift-based radial transport decreases due to large CFETR and ITER machine sizes. (2) The SOL turbulence thermal diffusivity increases due to larger turbulent fluxes ejected from the pedestal into the SOL when operating in a different pedestal structure, from an ELM-free H-mode pedestal regime to a small and grassy ELM regime.},
doi = {10.1088/1741-4326/ab430d},
journal = {Nuclear Fusion},
number = 12,
volume = 59,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Oct 17 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Thu Oct 17 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}
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