P.-Y. Li D. R. Hatch B. Chapman-Oplopoiou S. Saarelma C. M. Roach M. Kotschenreuther S. M. Mahajan the MAST Team
The results of a recent gyrokinetic analysis of turbulent transport driven by the electron temperature gradient (ETG) in the MAST pedestal are presented. During the inter-ELM period, the buildup rate of the electron density gradients is faster than that of the electron temperature gradients, possibly indicating the presence of an active electron th…
PreprintR O Dendy B Chapman-Oplopoiou B C G Reman J W S Cook
Helium ash alpha-particles at 100keV in magnetically confined fusion plasmas may have the same Larmor radius, as well as cyclotron frequency, as the energetic beam-injected deuterons that heat the plasma. While the velocity-space distribution of the helium ash is monotonically decreasing, that of the energetic deuterons is a delta-function in…
Preprint PurchaseD. R. Hatch C. Michoski D. Kuang B.Chapman-Oplopoiou M. Curie M. Halfmoon E.Hassan M. Kotschenreuther S. M. Mahajan G. Merlo M.J. Pueschel J. Walker C. D. Stephens
This paper reports on the development of reduced models for electron temperature gradient (ETG) driven transport in the pedestal. Model development is enabled by a set of 61 nonlinear gyrokinetic simulations with input parameters taken from the pedestals in a broad range of experimental scenarios. The simulation data has been consolidated in a new …
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