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Saturated helical mode in EAST high beta hybrid plasmas

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作者Yuan, Yi2; Hu, Liqun2; Xu, Liqing2; Chao, Yan1,2; Liu, Haiqing2; Li, Yingying2; Zhang, Tao2; Hao, Baolong2; Chen, Kaiyun2; Zhang, Jizong2
刊名NUCLEAR FUSION
出版日期2020
卷号60
关键词hybrid scenario long-lived mode helical core toroidal rotation damping mode coupling flux pumping
ISSN号0029-5515
DOI10.1088/1741-4326/ab455b
通讯作者Xu, Liqing(lqxu@ipp.cas.cn) ; Lin, Shiyao(linsy@ipp.cas.cn)
英文摘要A hybrid scenario with the minimum safety factor above unity and a safety factor profile with a wide range of low magnetic shear in the core is one of the candidates for ITER operations. Theory predicts that such equilibria are prone to quasi-interchange mode, which was confirmed by observations from several devices. The presence of those 3D quasi-interchange helical modes has both positive and negative effects on plasma performance. On the one hand, they can avoid low mode number instabilities such as sawteeth. On the other hand, they would lead to confinement degradation, significant fast ion losses and toroidal rotation damping. Such modes are observed for the first time in EAST high beta(p) hybrid plasmas achieved with off-axis neutral beam injection (NBI) heating. The mode manifested itself as long-lived saturated helical instability. Notably, when the mode was destabilized, the toroidal rotation profile in the core was completely flattened. The extent of the flattened rotation profile reaches up to half of the minor radius. As the minimum safety factor qmin approaches unity, strong n = 2 and n = 3 harmonics are successively driven unstable as nonlinear consequences of the n = 1 mode. A 3D resistive nonlinear simulation with a realistic tokamak configuration has been applied to reproduce the evolution of long-lived helical instability with the M3D code. The simulated magnetic perturbation shows a strong n = 2 component. As the mode grows, the amplitude of the n = 2 harmonic grows immensely with respect to that of the n = 1 harmonic. The n = 2 harmonic gradually becomes dominant as the mode saturates. In saturation, the initial weak shear safety factor profile in the core becomes completely flat. This change of safety factor profile in the core corroborates a self-regulating magnetic flux pumping mechanism which is considered responsible for maintaining stationary non-sawtoothing hybrid discharges.
WOS关键词INTERNAL KINK MODE ; DENSITY PROFILE ; TOKAMAK ; STABILIZATION ; STABILITY
资助项目National Nature Science Foundation of China[11605243]
WOS研究方向Physics
语种英语
WOS记录号WOS:000529972800003
出版者IOP PUBLISHING LTD
资助机构National Nature Science Foundation of China
源URL[http://ir.hfcas.ac.cn:8080/handle/334002/103453]  
专题中国科学院合肥物质科学研究院
通讯作者Xu, Liqing; Lin, Shiyao
作者单位1.Univ Sci & Technol China, Hefei 230026, Anhui, Peoples R China
2.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Plasma Phys, Hefei 230031, Anhui, Peoples R China
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Yuan, Yi,Hu, Liqun,Xu, Liqing,et al. Saturated helical mode in EAST high beta hybrid plasmas[J]. NUCLEAR FUSION,2020,60.
APA Yuan, Yi.,Hu, Liqun.,Xu, Liqing.,Chao, Yan.,Liu, Haiqing.,...&Mao, Songtao.(2020).Saturated helical mode in EAST high beta hybrid plasmas.NUCLEAR FUSION,60.
MLA Yuan, Yi,et al."Saturated helical mode in EAST high beta hybrid plasmas".NUCLEAR FUSION 60(2020).

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