A R Field D Fajardo F J Casson C Angioni C D Challis J Hobirk A Kappatou Hyun-Tae Kim E Lerche A Loarte J Mailloux JET Contributors
Screening of high-Z (W) impurities from the confined plasma by the temperature gradient at the hot edge pedestal of fusion-grade H-mode plasmas has been demonstrated for the first time in the JET-ILW tokamak. Through careful optimisation of the hybrid-scenario, deuterium plasmas with sufficient heating power (≳ 32MW), high enough ion temperature …
PreprintP.A. Schneider C. Angioni L. Frassinetti L. Horvath M. Maslov F. Auriemma M. Cavedon C.D. Challis E. Delabie M.G. Dunne J.M. Fontdecaba Climent J. Hobirk A. Kappatou D.L. Keeling B. Kurzan M. Lennholm B. Lomanovski C.F. Maggi R.M. McDermott T. Pütterich A. Thorman M. Willensdorfer
Experiments in ASDEX Upgrade (AUG) and JET with the ITER-like wall (JET-ILW) are performed to separate the pedestal and core contributions to confinement in H-modes with different main ion masses. A strong isotope mass dependence in the pedestal is found which is enhanced at high gas puffing. This is because the ELM type changes when going fro…
Preprint PublishedF.J. Casson H. Patten C. Bourdelle S. Breton J. Citrin F. Koechl C. Angioni Y. Baranov R. Bilato E.A. Belli C.D. Challis G. Corrigan A. Czarnecka O. Ficker L. Frassinetti L. Garzotti M. Goniche J.P. Graves T. Johnson K. Kirov P. Knight E. Lerche M. Mantsinen J. Mylnar M. Sertoli M. Valisa
The evolution of the JET high performance hybrid scenario, including central accumulation of the tungsten (W) impurity, is reproduced with predictive multi-channel integrated modelling over multiple confinement times using first-principle based models. 8 transport channels are modelled predictively, with self-consistent sources, radiation and magne…
Preprint PublishedF.J. Casson H. Patten C. Bourdelle S. Breton J. Citrin F. Koechl C. Angioni Y. Baranov R. Bilato E. Belli C.D. Challis G. Corrigan A. Czarnecka O. Ficker L. Garzotti M. Goniche J.P. Graves T. Johnson K. Kirov P. Knight E. Lerche M. Mantsinen J. Mylnar M. Sertoli M. Valisa JET contributors
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O. Linder J. Citrin G.M.D. Hogeweij C. Angioni C. Bourdelle F.J. Casson E. Fable A. Ho F. Koechl M. Sertoli the EUROfusion MST1 Team the ASDEX Upgrade Team
Neoclassical and turbulent heavy impurity transport in tokamak core plasmas are determined by main ion temperature, density and toroidal rotation profiles. Thus, in order to reproduce experimental behaviour of W accumulation, integrated modelling of main ion heat and particle transport is a vital prerequisite. For the first time, the quasilinear …
Preprint PublishedP. Manas Y. Camenen S. Benkadda H. Weisen C. Angioni F.J. Casson C. Giroud M. Gelfusa M. Maslov JET contributors
Quantitative comparisons are presented between gyrokinetic simulations and experimental values of the carbon impurity peaking factor in a database of JET H-modes during the carbon wall era. These plasmas feature strong NBI heating, hence high values of toroidal rotation and correponding gradient. Furthermore, the carbon profiles present particularl…
Preprint PublishedS. Breton F.J. Casson C. Bourdelle C. Angioni E. Belli Y. Camenen J. Citrin X. Garbet Y. Sarazin The JET contributors
Heavy impurities, such as tungsten (W), can exhibit strongly poloidally asymmetric density profiles in rotating or radio frequency heated plasmas. In the metallic environment of JET, the poloidal asymmetry of tungsten enhances its neoclassical transport up to an order of magnitude, so that neoclassical convection is expected to dominate over turbul…
PreprintR. Bilato T. Odstrcil F.J. Casson C. Angioni M. Brambilla Ye. O. Kazakov E. Poli
The recently proposed set of zeroth-order moment equations to model poloidal density asymmetries induced by temperature anisotropies in rotating tokamak plasmas (R. Bilato et al., Nuclear Fusion 54 (2014) 072003) is here extended to account for the effects of the localization of the ion cyclotron (IC) resonance on the poloidal inhomogeneity of the …
Preprint PublishedF.J. Casson C. Angioni E.A. Belli R. Bilato P. Mantica T. Odstrcil T Puetterich M. Valisa L. Garzotti C. Giroud J. Hobirk C.F. Maggi J. Mlynar M.L. Reinke JET EFDA contributors ASDEX-Upgrade team
The effects of poloidal asymmetries and heated minority species are shown to be necessary to accurately describe heavy impurity transport in present experiments in JET and ASDEX Upgrade. Plasma rotation, or any small background electrostatic field in the plasma, such as that generated by anisotropic external heating can generate strong poloidal den…
Preprint PublishedF.J. Casson E. Poli C. Angioni R. Buchholz A.G. Peeters
Non-linear local electromagnetic gyrokinetic turbulence simulations of the ITER standard scenario H-mode are presented for the q = 3 / 2 and q = 2 surfaces. The turbulent transport is examined in regions of velocity space characteristic of electrons heated by electron cyclotron waves. Electro- magnetic fluctuations and sub-dominant micro-tearing mo…
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