New power law scalings of the error field (EF) penetration thresholds across a wide range of tokamaks havebeen developed for toroidal mode numbers n=1 and 2 and project values for ITER that the construction tol-erances and correction coils satisfy. This paper presents a multi-variable n=2 threshold regression across awide range of densities, toroidal fields, and pressures in 3 machines (DIII-D, EAST, and COMPASS) using acommon metric to quantify the EF in each device. It compares this new n=2 scaling to updated n=1 scalingsusing a larger 6 machine ITPA database. The results validate nonlinear single-fluid MHD simulation scalings,which are used to lend confidence to the projected scalings to ITER. These projections set the tolerances fornon-axisymmetric components (like Test Blanket Modules) and the corresponding requirements for EF cor-rection coil arrays in ITER.
Multi-machine Scalings of Thresholds for n=1 and n=2 Error Field Correction
Piovesan P;
2021
Abstract
New power law scalings of the error field (EF) penetration thresholds across a wide range of tokamaks havebeen developed for toroidal mode numbers n=1 and 2 and project values for ITER that the construction tol-erances and correction coils satisfy. This paper presents a multi-variable n=2 threshold regression across awide range of densities, toroidal fields, and pressures in 3 machines (DIII-D, EAST, and COMPASS) using acommon metric to quantify the EF in each device. It compares this new n=2 scaling to updated n=1 scalingsusing a larger 6 machine ITPA database. The results validate nonlinear single-fluid MHD simulation scalings,which are used to lend confidence to the projected scalings to ITER. These projections set the tolerances fornon-axisymmetric components (like Test Blanket Modules) and the corresponding requirements for EF cor-rection coil arrays in ITER.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
