Modeling the effect of toroidal plasma rotation on drift-magnetohydrodynamic modes in tokamaks

被引：46

作者：

Chapman, I. T. ^{[1
]}

Sharapov, S. E.

Huysmans, G. T. A.

Mikhailovskii, A. B.

机构：

[1] UKAEA Euratom Fus Assoc, Culham Sci Ctr, Abingdon OX14 3DB, Oxon, England

[2] CEA Cadarache, EURATOM Assoc, F-13108 St Paul Les Durance, France

[3] RRC Kurchatov Inst, Inst Nucl Fus, Moscow 123182, Russia

来源：

PHYSICS OF PLASMAS | 2006年 / 13卷 / 06期

基金：

英国工程与自然科学研究理事会;

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D O I：

10.1063/1.2212401

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：

A new code, MISHKA-F (Flow), has been developed as an extension of the ideal magneto-hydrodynamic (MHD) code MISHKA-1 [Mikhailovskii , Plasma Phys. Rep. 23, 844 (1997)] in order to investigate the linear MHD stability of ideal and resistive eigenmodes with respect to the effects of toroidal rotation in tokamaks in general toroidal geometry with the ion diamagnetic drift effect taken into account. Benchmark test results of the MISHKA-F code show good agreement with analytic theory [A. B. Mikhailovskii and S. E. Sharapov, Plasma Phys. Controlled Fusion 42, 57 (2000)] for the stability limits of the ideal n/m=1/1 internal kink mode. The combined stabilizing effects of the ion diamagnetic drift frequency, omega(*i), and the toroidal flow shear are also studied. The omega(*i) stabilization of the internal kink mode is found to be more effective at finite flow shear. Finite-n ballooning modes are studied in plasmas with the toroidal flow shear effect included. The stabilization of the ballooning modes by toroidal rotation is found to agree well with earlier predictions [Webster , Phys. Plasmas 11, 2135 (2004)]. The effect of high flow shear is analyzed for a sawtoothing discharge typical in the Mega Ampere Spherical Tokamak (MAST) [Sykes , Nucl. Fusion 41, 1423 (2001)]. It is found that the ideal n=1 internal kink mode can be stabilized by toroidal rotation at values observed experimentally. (c) 2006 American Institute of Physics.

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