Full wave simulations of fast wave efficiency and power losses in the scrape-off layer of tokamak plasmas in mid/high harmonic and minority heating regimes
Abstract
Here, several experiments on different machines and in different fast wave (FW) heating regimes, such as hydrogen minority heating and high harmonic fast waves (HHFW), have found strong interaction between radio-frequency (RF) waves and the scrape-off layer (SOL) region. This paper examines the propagation and the power loss in the SOL by using the full wave code AORSA, in which the edge plasma beyond the last closed flux surface (LCFS) is included in the solution domain and a collisional damping parameter is used as a proxy to represent the real, and most likely nonlinear, damping processes. 2D and 3D AORSA results for the National Spherical Torus eXperiment (NSTX) have shown a strong transition to higher SOL power losses (driven by the RF field) when the FW cut-off is removed from in front of the antenna by increasing the edge density. Here, full wave simulations have been extended for 'conventional' tokamaks with higher aspect ratios, such as the DIII-D, Alcator C-Mod, and EAST devices. DIII-D results in HHFW regime show similar behavior found in NSTX and NSTX-U, consistent with previous DIII-D experimental observations. In contrast, a different behavior has been found for C-Mod and EAST, which operate in the minority heatingmore »
- Authors:
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[1];
- Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States)
- XCEL Engineering, Inc., Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
- Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei (People's Republic of China)
- General Atomics, San Diego, CA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1256598
- Report Number(s):
- PPPL-5095
Journal ID: ISSN 0029-5515
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231; AC02-09CH11466; AC05-00OR22725; FC02-01ER54648
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Nuclear Fusion
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 56; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 0029-5515
- Publisher:
- IOP Science
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; fast wave; heating losses; scrape-off layer; HHFW; ICRH; SOL; power; losses; alcator C-Mod; DIII-D tokamak; NSTX; performance; device
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Bertelli, N., Jaeger, E. F., Hosea, J. C., Phillips, C. K., Berry, L., Bonoli, P. T., Gerhardt, S. P., Green, D., LeBlanc, B., Perkins, R. J., Qin, C. M., Pinsker, R. I., Prater, R., Ryan, P. M., Taylor, G., Valeo, E. J., Wilson, J. R., Wright, J. C., and Zhang, X. J. Full wave simulations of fast wave efficiency and power losses in the scrape-off layer of tokamak plasmas in mid/high harmonic and minority heating regimes. United States: N. p., 2015.
Web. doi:10.1088/0029-5515/56/1/016019.
Bertelli, N., Jaeger, E. F., Hosea, J. C., Phillips, C. K., Berry, L., Bonoli, P. T., Gerhardt, S. P., Green, D., LeBlanc, B., Perkins, R. J., Qin, C. M., Pinsker, R. I., Prater, R., Ryan, P. M., Taylor, G., Valeo, E. J., Wilson, J. R., Wright, J. C., & Zhang, X. J. Full wave simulations of fast wave efficiency and power losses in the scrape-off layer of tokamak plasmas in mid/high harmonic and minority heating regimes. United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/0029-5515/56/1/016019
Bertelli, N., Jaeger, E. F., Hosea, J. C., Phillips, C. K., Berry, L., Bonoli, P. T., Gerhardt, S. P., Green, D., LeBlanc, B., Perkins, R. J., Qin, C. M., Pinsker, R. I., Prater, R., Ryan, P. M., Taylor, G., Valeo, E. J., Wilson, J. R., Wright, J. C., and Zhang, X. J. Thu .
"Full wave simulations of fast wave efficiency and power losses in the scrape-off layer of tokamak plasmas in mid/high harmonic and minority heating regimes". United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/0029-5515/56/1/016019. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1256598.
@article{osti_1256598,
title = {Full wave simulations of fast wave efficiency and power losses in the scrape-off layer of tokamak plasmas in mid/high harmonic and minority heating regimes},
author = {Bertelli, N. and Jaeger, E. F. and Hosea, J. C. and Phillips, C. K. and Berry, L. and Bonoli, P. T. and Gerhardt, S. P. and Green, D. and LeBlanc, B. and Perkins, R. J. and Qin, C. M. and Pinsker, R. I. and Prater, R. and Ryan, P. M. and Taylor, G. and Valeo, E. J. and Wilson, J. R. and Wright, J. C. and Zhang, X. J.},
abstractNote = {Here, several experiments on different machines and in different fast wave (FW) heating regimes, such as hydrogen minority heating and high harmonic fast waves (HHFW), have found strong interaction between radio-frequency (RF) waves and the scrape-off layer (SOL) region. This paper examines the propagation and the power loss in the SOL by using the full wave code AORSA, in which the edge plasma beyond the last closed flux surface (LCFS) is included in the solution domain and a collisional damping parameter is used as a proxy to represent the real, and most likely nonlinear, damping processes. 2D and 3D AORSA results for the National Spherical Torus eXperiment (NSTX) have shown a strong transition to higher SOL power losses (driven by the RF field) when the FW cut-off is removed from in front of the antenna by increasing the edge density. Here, full wave simulations have been extended for 'conventional' tokamaks with higher aspect ratios, such as the DIII-D, Alcator C-Mod, and EAST devices. DIII-D results in HHFW regime show similar behavior found in NSTX and NSTX-U, consistent with previous DIII-D experimental observations. In contrast, a different behavior has been found for C-Mod and EAST, which operate in the minority heating regime.},
doi = {10.1088/0029-5515/56/1/016019},
journal = {Nuclear Fusion},
number = 1,
volume = 56,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Dec 17 00:00:00 EST 2015},
month = {Thu Dec 17 00:00:00 EST 2015}
}
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