A reduced resistive wall mode kinetic stability model for disruption forecasting

被引：36

作者：

Berkery, J. W. ^{[1
]}

Sabbagh, S. A. ^{[1
]}

Bell, R. E. ^{[2
]}

Gerhardt, S. P. ^{[2
]}

LeBlanc, B. P. ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] Columbia Univ, Dept Appl Phys & Appl Math, New York, NY 10027 USA

[2] Princeton Univ, Princeton Plasma Phys Lab, Princeton, NJ 08543 USA

来源：

PHYSICS OF PLASMAS | 2017年 / 24卷 / 05期

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D O I：

10.1063/1.4977464

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：

Kinetic modification of ideal stability theory from stabilizing resonances of mode-particle interaction has had success in explaining resistive wall mode (RWM) stability limits in tokamaks. With the goal of real-time stability forecasting, a reduced kinetic stability model has been implemented in the new Disruption Event Characterization and Forecasting (DECAF) code, which has been written to analyze disruptions in tokamaks. The reduced model incorporates parameterized models for ideal limits on beta, a ratio of plasma pressure to magnetic pressure, which are shown to be in good agreement with DCON code calculations. Increased beta between these ideal limits causes a shift in the unstable region of delta W-K space, where delta W-K is the change in potential energy due to kinetic effects that is solved for by the reduced model, such that it is possible for plasmas to be unstable at intermediate beta but stable at higher beta, which is sometimes observed experimentally. Gaussian functions for dWK are defined as functions of E x B frequency and collisionality, with parameters reflecting the experience of the National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX). The reduced model was tested on a database of discharges from NSTX and experimentally stable and unstable discharges were separated noticeably on a stability map in E x B frequency, collisionality space. The reduced model failed to predict an unstable RWM in only 15.6% of cases with an experimentally unstable RWM and performed well on predicting stability for experimentally stable discharges as well. Published by AIP Publishing.

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