Suppression of type-I ELMs with reduced RMP coil set on DIII-D

Orlov, Dmitriy M.; Moyer, Richard A.; Evans, Todd E.; Paz-Soldan, Carlos; Ferraro, Nathaniel M.; Nazikian, Raffi; deGrassie, John S.; Grierson, Brian A.; Eldon, David; Fenstermacher, Max E.; King, J. D.; Logan, N. C.; Lanctot, Matthew J.; Maingi, R.; Snyder, P. B.; Strait, E. J.; Wingen, Andreas

doi:10.1088/0029-5515/56/3/036020

Title: Suppression of type-I ELMs with reduced RMP coil set on DIII-D

Journal Article · Fri Feb 19 00:00:00 EST 2016 · Nuclear Fusion

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1088/0029-5515/56/3/036020· OSTI ID:1311248

Orlov, Dmitriy M. ^[1]; Moyer, Richard A. ^[1]; Evans, Todd E. ^[2]; Paz-Soldan, Carlos ^[2]; Ferraro, Nathaniel M. ^[2]; Nazikian, Raffi ^[3]; deGrassie, John S. ^[2]; Grierson, Brian A. ^[3]; Eldon, David ^[1]; Fenstermacher, Max E. ^[4]; King, J. D. ^[2]; Logan, N. C. ^[3]; Lanctot, Matthew J. ^[2]; Maingi, R. ^[3]; Snyder, P. B. ^[2]; Strait, E. J. ^[2]; Wingen, Andreas ^[5]

Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States)
General Atomics, San Diego, CA (United States)
Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States)
Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Recent experiments on DIII-D have demonstrated that having a toroidally-monochromatic spectral content of edge-resonant magnetic perturbations (RMPs) is not a necessary condition for suppression of edge localized modes (ELMs). Robust ELM suppression has been reproducibly obtained on DIII-D during experiments in which various non-axisymmetric coil loops were turned off pseudo-randomly producing a variety of n=1 , n=2, and n=3 spectral contributions. It was demonstrated that RMP ELM suppression could be achieved with as few as 5 out of 12 internal coil loops (I-coils) on DIII-D at similar coil currents and with good plasma confinement. Linear MHD plasma response (M3DC1, IPEC, MARS) and vacuum (SURFMN, TRIP3D) modelling have been performed in order to understand the effects of the perturbation spectrum on the plasma response and ELM suppression. The results suggest that reduction of the dominant n=3 perturbation field is compensated by increased n=2 field in the plasma that may lead to RMP ELM suppression at lower levels of n=3 perturbative magnetic flux from the I-coils. In conclusion, these results provide additional confidence that ITER may be capable of RMP ELM suppression in the event of multiple internal coil failures.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States); DIII-D National Fusion Facility, San Diego, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Fusion Energy Sciences (FES); USDOE Office of Nuclear Energy (NE); USDOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725; FG02-05ER54809; FC02-04ER54698; AC01-09CH11466; AC52-07NA27344; AC02-09CH11466; AC05-06OR23100

OSTI ID:: 1311248

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1238386; OSTI ID: 1353064; OSTI ID: 1871406

Report Number(s):: LLNL-JRNL-834533; AT1010101; ERAT355

Journal Information:: Nuclear Fusion, Vol. 56, Issue 3; ISSN 0029-5515

Publisher:: IOP ScienceCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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