Magnetohydrodynamic behaviour during core transport barrier experiments with ion Bernstein wave heating in PBX-M: I ELMs, fluctuations and crash events

被引:5
作者
Sesnic, S [1 ]
Kaita, R
Batha, SH
Bell, RE
Bernabei, S
Chance, MS
De la Luna, E
Dunlap, JL
England, AC
Isler, RC
Jones, S
Kaye, SM
Kesner, J
Kugel, HW
LeBlanc, B
Levinton, FM
Luckhardt, SC
Manickam, J
Okabayashi, M
Ono, M
Paoletti, F
Paul, SF
Post-Zwicker, AP
Sanz, JS
Sauthoff, NR
Seki, T
Takahashi, H
Tighe, W
Von Goeler, S
Woskov, P
Zolfaghari, A
机构
[1] Princeton Univ, Princeton Plasma Phys Lab, Princeton, NJ 08544 USA
[2] Max Planck Inst Plasma Phys, EURATOM, IPP Assoc, Garching, Germany
[3] Fus Phys & Technol, Torrance, CA USA
[4] EURATOM, CIEMAT Fus, Madrid, Spain
[5] Oak Ridge Natl Lab, Div Fus Energy, Oak Ridge, TN 37831 USA
[6] MIT, Plasma Sci & Fus Ctr, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[7] Natl Inst Fus Sci, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
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10.1088/0029-5515/38/6/305
中图分类号
O35 [流体力学]; O53 [等离子体物理学];
学科分类号
070204 ; 080103 ; 080704 ;
摘要
If the ion Bernstein wave (IBW) heating power in an H mode discharge of the PBX-M experiment exceeds a threshold power of about 200 kW, a core transport barrier is created in the central region of the plasma. At lower neutral beam injection (NBI) powers, the core barrier is accompanied by an edge L mode. The high edge localized mode (ELM) repetition frequency (1 kHz) prevents the creation of a strong barrier, so the edge first has to make an H-to-L transition before a strong core transport barrier can be created. At higher NBI powers, the ELM repetition frequency is lowered to less than 200 Hz, which allows the immediate creation of a strong core barrier. Edge localized mode loss, which propagates radially first on a fast (non-diffusive) and then on a slow (diffusive) time-scale all the way to the plasma core, is strongly reduced in the core barrier region. Correlated with the reduced ELM. loss, the fluctuations in the core barrier region are also strongly reduced, both during the ELM and during the quiet periods between the ELMs, There is strong evidence that the IBW induced poloidal flow shear is responsible for the stabilization of core turbulence and the creation of the core transport barrier. The large perpendicular E x B flow shear component of the measured toroidal velocity in co-injection neutral beam heated discharges seems to be largely cancelled by the ion diamagnetic drift shear produced by large ion pressure gradients in the core barrier region. The value of IBW induced poloidal flow has not been experimentally determined, but its numerical value is found to be a factor of 4 larger than either the toroidal velocity or the ion diamagnetic drift, shear components, leaving only IBW induced flow shear as the most probable cause for the turbulence stabilization. The core turbulence suppression and the creation of the core transport barrier is also consistent with expectations from a comparison between the E x B flow shear rate and a rough estimate of the linear ion temperature gradient (ITG) growth rate. The presence of the core barrier region also strongly modifies the other MHD events: crashes on the q = 1.5, 2 surfaces and the disruption.
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