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Grassy ELM regime at low pedestal collisionality in high-power tokamak plasma

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作者Wang,Y.F.2; Wang,H.Q.1; Xu,G.S.2; Jia,G.Z.2; Turco,F.3; Petty,C.C.1; Chen,J.L.2; Yan,N.2; Yang,Q.Q.2; Wang,L.2
刊名Nuclear Fusion
出版日期2020-12-14
卷号61
ISSN号0029-5515
关键词grassy ELM pedestal stability heating power tokamak
DOI10.1088/1741-4326/abc59b
英文摘要AbstractSpontaneous mitigation of giant ELMs and appearance of grassy ELMs have been observed repeatedly at low pedestal collisionality (νe,ped*~0.15) in the high-power (Pinj > 13 MW) hybrid scenario in DIII-D. Higher βp and higher q95 appear to be beneficial to achieving the grassy ELM regime. The grassy ELM H-mode plasma shows high energy confinement performance (H98y2 up to over 1.5) under the conditions of high neutral beam torque and high core rotation. The pedestal width appears to exceed the EPED1.0 model prediction by more than 50%. Pedestal stability analysis performed with the ELITE code indicates that the stability against low-n kink/peeling modes is improved with increased auxiliary heating power and the operational point in the grassy ELM regime is located near the ballooning boundary. The pedestal stability characteristics during the grassy ELM crashes have been investigated in comparison with the giant ELM crashes based on plasma profiles experimentally measured with high resolution and accuracy. It has been found that the underlying mechanism for the observed small-amplitude ELM crashes is mainly the expansion of the ballooning stability boundary induced by an initial radially localized collapse in the pedestal, which helps to stop the growth of instabilities and further collapse of the pedestal. The effect of electron density pedestal on mitigating edge localized instabilities has been analyzed by numerical simulation, suggesting that the electron density pedestal characterized by high ne,sep/ne,ped and low density gradient helps to stabilize peeling-ballooning modes because of a low pressure pedestal gradient and to lower the ballooning boundary mainly because of a low ion diamagnetic frequency in the pedestal region, thus triggering ballooning instabilities and producing the intrinsic grassy ELMs. Numerical simulation of the Chinese fusion engineering test reactor (CFETR) with the SOLPS code indicates that the separatrix density might be insensitive to the electron diffusivity in the pedestal region and increase with the power flowing from the core region to the edge region. Pedestal stability analysis suggests that the flat density pedestal with high separatrix density obtained in the high-power plasma in CFETR would make the operational point close to the ballooning boundary, which is considered to help destabilize ballooning instabilities and facilitate the access to the grassy ELM regime.
语种英语
出版者IOP Publishing
WOS记录号IOP:0029-5515-61-1-ABC59B
源URL[http://ir.hfcas.ac.cn:8080/handle/334002/120677]  
专题中国科学院合肥物质科学研究院
作者单位1.General Atomics, P.O. Box 85608, San Diego, CA 92186-5608, United States of America
2.Institute of Plasma Physics, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 1126, Hefei 230031, China
3.Columbia University, 2960 Broadway, New York, NY 10027-6900, United States of America
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Wang,Y.F.,Wang,H.Q.,Xu,G.S.,et al. Grassy ELM regime at low pedestal collisionality in high-power tokamak plasma[J]. Nuclear Fusion,2020,61.
APA Wang,Y.F..,Wang,H.Q..,Xu,G.S..,Jia,G.Z..,Turco,F..,...&Wan,B.N..(2020).Grassy ELM regime at low pedestal collisionality in high-power tokamak plasma.Nuclear Fusion,61.
MLA Wang,Y.F.,et al."Grassy ELM regime at low pedestal collisionality in high-power tokamak plasma".Nuclear Fusion 61(2020).

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