Hyun-Tae Kim A.C.C. Sips EFDA-JET Contributors
This paper presents the DYON simulations of the plasma burn-through phase at Joint European Torus (JET) with the ITER-like wall. The main purpose of the study is to validate the simulations with the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER)-like wall, made of beryllium. Without impurities, the burn-through process of a pure deuterium …
PublishedYueqiang Liu R. J. Hastie T. C. Hender
Two possible ways of modifying the linear tearing mode index, by active magnetic feedback and by drift kinetic effects of deeply trapped particles, are analytically investigated. Magnetic feedback schemes, studied in this work, are found generally stabilizing for Δ′. The drift kinetic effects from both thermal particles and hot ions tend to redu…
PublishedLeonid E. Zakharov Sergei A. Galkin Sergei N. Gerasimov
This paper describes progress achieved since 2007 in understanding disruptions in tokamaks, when the effect of plasma current sharing with the wall was introduced into theory. As a result, the toroidal asymmetry of the plasma current measurements during vertical disruption event (VDE) on the Joint European Torus was explained. A new kind of plasma …
PublishedA.R. Field D. Dunai R. Gaffka Y.-C. Ghim I. Kiss et al.
A new beam emission spectroscopy turbulence imaging system has recently been installed onto the MAST spherical tokamak. The system utilises a high-throughput, direct coupled imaging optics, and a single large interference filter for collection of the Doppler shifted emission from the ~2 MW heating beam of ~70 keV injection energy. The collected lig…
PublishedS. Saarelma T. Casper I.T. Chapman G.T.A. Huijsmans O. Kwon J. Lee A. Loarte
A stability analysis using equilibria from CORSICA transport simulations finds that the maximum stable pedestal pressure in ITER 15 MA baseline plasma is 110 kPa corresponding to a pedestal temperature of 5.9 keV. The height of the stable pedestal is robust for the assumption of the pedestal height varying only by about 10% if the width of the pede…
PublishedYueqiang Liu J. W. Connor S. C. Cowley C. J. Ham R. J. Hastie et al.
A numerical study is carried out, based on a simple toroidal tokamak equilibrium, to demonstrate the radial re-distribution of the electromagnetic torque density, as a result of a rotating resistive plasma (linear) response to a static resonant magnetic perturbation field. The computed electromagnetic torque peaks at several radial locations even i…
PublishedR. J. Buttery A. H. Boozer Y. Q. Liu J.-K. Park N. M. Ferraro
Significant progress has been made in interpreting the effects of non-axisymmetric “error” fields on a plasma through ideal MHD stability and a dominant “least stable” ideal mode through which the fields couple to the tearing resonant surface. However, in contrast to expectations from such theories, experiments have found limited success in…
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