Study of the likelihood of Alfvénic mode bifurcation in NSTX and predictions for ITER baseline scenarios
Abstract
Rare Alfvénic wave transitions between fixed-frequency and chirping phases are identified in NSTX, where Alfvénic waves are normally observed to exhibit either chirping or avalanching responses. For those transitions, we apply in this paper a criterion (Duarte et al 2017 Nucl. Fusion 57 054001) to predict the nature of fast ion redistribution in tokamaks to be in the convective or diffusive nonlinear regimes. For NSTX discharges in which the transition is not accompanied by changes in the beam deposited power or modifications in the injected radiofrequency power, it has been found that the anomalous fast ion transport is a likely mediator of the bifurcation between the fixed-frequency mode behavior and rapid chirping. For a quantitative assessment, global gyrokinetic simulations of the effects of electrostatic ion temperature gradient turbulence and trapped electron mode turbulence on chirping were pursued using the GTS code. The investigation is extended by means of predictive studies of the probable spectral behavior of Alfvénic eigenmodes for baseline ITER cases consisting of elmy, advanced and hybrid scenarios. Finally, it has been observed that most modes are found to be borderline between the steady and the chirping phases.
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- Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States); Univ. of São Paulo (Brazil). Inst. of Physics
- Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States)
- Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX (United States). Inst. for Fusion Studies
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- Research Org.:
- Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States); Univ. of Sao Paulo (Brazil)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE; São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) (Brazil)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1459542
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-09CH11466; 2012/22830-2; 2014/03289-4
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Nuclear Fusion
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 58; Journal Issue: 8; Journal ID: ISSN 0029-5515
- Publisher:
- IOP Science
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY
Citation Formats
Duarte, V. N., Gorelenkov, N. N., Schneller, M., Fredrickson, E. D., Podesta, M., and Berk, H. L. Study of the likelihood of Alfvénic mode bifurcation in NSTX and predictions for ITER baseline scenarios. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1088/1741-4326/aab37c.
Duarte, V. N., Gorelenkov, N. N., Schneller, M., Fredrickson, E. D., Podesta, M., & Berk, H. L. Study of the likelihood of Alfvénic mode bifurcation in NSTX and predictions for ITER baseline scenarios. United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/aab37c
Duarte, V. N., Gorelenkov, N. N., Schneller, M., Fredrickson, E. D., Podesta, M., and Berk, H. L. Fri .
"Study of the likelihood of Alfvénic mode bifurcation in NSTX and predictions for ITER baseline scenarios". United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/aab37c. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1459542.
@article{osti_1459542,
title = {Study of the likelihood of Alfvénic mode bifurcation in NSTX and predictions for ITER baseline scenarios},
author = {Duarte, V. N. and Gorelenkov, N. N. and Schneller, M. and Fredrickson, E. D. and Podesta, M. and Berk, H. L.},
abstractNote = {Rare Alfvénic wave transitions between fixed-frequency and chirping phases are identified in NSTX, where Alfvénic waves are normally observed to exhibit either chirping or avalanching responses. For those transitions, we apply in this paper a criterion (Duarte et al 2017 Nucl. Fusion 57 054001) to predict the nature of fast ion redistribution in tokamaks to be in the convective or diffusive nonlinear regimes. For NSTX discharges in which the transition is not accompanied by changes in the beam deposited power or modifications in the injected radiofrequency power, it has been found that the anomalous fast ion transport is a likely mediator of the bifurcation between the fixed-frequency mode behavior and rapid chirping. For a quantitative assessment, global gyrokinetic simulations of the effects of electrostatic ion temperature gradient turbulence and trapped electron mode turbulence on chirping were pursued using the GTS code. The investigation is extended by means of predictive studies of the probable spectral behavior of Alfvénic eigenmodes for baseline ITER cases consisting of elmy, advanced and hybrid scenarios. Finally, it has been observed that most modes are found to be borderline between the steady and the chirping phases.},
doi = {10.1088/1741-4326/aab37c},
journal = {Nuclear Fusion},
number = 8,
volume = 58,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri Mar 02 00:00:00 EST 2018},
month = {Fri Mar 02 00:00:00 EST 2018}
}
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Figure 1: Correlation between the onset of Alfvénic chirping (lower plots) and an improvement of thermal ion confinement, as inferred from TRANSP (upper plots), for NSTX pulses #128453 and #135388.
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