HIGH-BETA AND ENHANCED CONFINEMENT IN A 2ND STABLE CORE VH-MODE ADVANCED TOKAMAK

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作者
TURNBULL, AD
TAYLOR, TS
LINLIU, YR
STJOHN, H
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[1] General Atomics, San Diego
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.74.718
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
A new, enhanced performance tokamak regime, the second stable core VH-mode (SSC-VH), with a self-consistent VH-mode transport barrier and a large second stable core pressure gradient supported by negative central magnetic shear, is proposed. The SSC-VH is shown to have promising β limits simultaneously with enhanced confinement and a large, well-aligned bootstrap current fraction. Simulations show that a wall-stabilized high β, high-confinement SSC-VH can be maintained self-consistently in a steady state, by noninductive current drive. © 1995 The American Physical Society.
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