New power law scalings of the error field (EF) penetration thresholds across a wide range of tokamaks have been developed for toroidal mode numbers n=1 and 2. These scale the threshold in the EF aligned with the dominant mode of core resonant drive as calculated by GPEC and project values on the order of 1-10G for ITER (criteria the ITER tolerances and correction coils easily satisfy). Within the typical regimes of DIII-D, the nonlinear MHD code TM1 reproduces the primary scaling behaviors observed in experiments. However, not all experiments conform to the simple power scaling framework. Observations at high density in KSTAR and DIII-D show a regime transition that drastically alters the density scaling. Other anomalies are observable in the impact of nonresonant error fields, which can alter the threshold through rotation braking or impact on the L-H transition dynamics. These anomalies necessitate modification of the simple resonant scalings to better describe the EF correction challenge in ITER and existing tokamaks.

Multi-machine Scalings of n=1 and n=2 Error Field Correction

Piovesan P;
2019

Abstract

New power law scalings of the error field (EF) penetration thresholds across a wide range of tokamaks have been developed for toroidal mode numbers n=1 and 2. These scale the threshold in the EF aligned with the dominant mode of core resonant drive as calculated by GPEC and project values on the order of 1-10G for ITER (criteria the ITER tolerances and correction coils easily satisfy). Within the typical regimes of DIII-D, the nonlinear MHD code TM1 reproduces the primary scaling behaviors observed in experiments. However, not all experiments conform to the simple power scaling framework. Observations at high density in KSTAR and DIII-D show a regime transition that drastically alters the density scaling. Other anomalies are observable in the impact of nonresonant error fields, which can alter the threshold through rotation braking or impact on the L-H transition dynamics. These anomalies necessitate modification of the simple resonant scalings to better describe the EF correction challenge in ITER and existing tokamaks.
2019
Istituto gas ionizzati - IGI - Sede Padova
Istituto per la Scienza e Tecnologia dei Plasmi - ISTP
Inglese
61st Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics
http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/DPP19/Session/PO5.3
October 21-25, 2019
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
ITER
MHD
Tokamak
Abstract: PO5.00003 / Work supported by US DOE contracts DE-AC02-09CH11466 and DE-FC02-04ER54698 as well as by the National Key R&D Program of China under Grant No. 2017YFE0301100
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Logan, Nc; Park, Jk; Hu, Q; Yang, S; Pazsoldan, C; Strait, Ej; Munaretto, S; In, Y; Wang, H; Markovic, T; Maraschek, M; Piron, L; Piovesan, P; Gribov,...espandi
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