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| العنوان: |
Effect of the isotope mass on pedestal structure, transport and stability in D, D/T and T plasmas at similar β N and gas rate in JET-ILW type I ELMy H-modes. |
| المؤلفون: |
Frassinetti, L., Perez von Thun, C., Chapman-Oplopoiou, B., Nyström, H., Poradzinski, M., Hillesheim, J.C., Horvath, L., Maggi, C.F., Saarelma, S., Stagni, A., Szepesi, G., Bleasdale, A., Chomiczewska, A., Morales, R.B., Brix, M., Carvalho, P., Dunai, D., Field, A.R., Fontdecaba, J.M., Sun, H.J. |
| المصدر: |
Nuclear Fusion; Nov2023, Vol. 63 Issue 11, p1-30, 30p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
TRITIUM, PEDESTALS, DEUTERIUM plasma, LARMOR radius, ISOTOPES, DEUTERIUM |
| مستخلص: |
The work describes the pedestal structure, transport and stability in an effective mass (A eff) scan from pure deuterium to pure tritium plasmas using a type I ELMy H-mode dataset in which key parameters that affect the pedestal behaviour (normalized pressure, ratio of the separatrix density to the pedestal density, pedestal ion Larmor radius, pedestal collisionality and rotation) are kept as constant as possible. Experimental results show a significant increase of the density at the pedestal top with increasing A eff, a modest reduction in the temperature and an increase in the pressure. The variations in the pedestal heights are mainly due to a change in the pedestal gradients while only small differences are observed in the pedestal width. A clear increase in the pedestal density and pressure gradients are observed from deuterium to tritium. The experimental results suggest a reduction of the pedestal inter-edge localized mode (inter-ELM) transport from deuterium to tritium. The reduction is likely in the pedestal inter-ELM particle transport, as suggested by the clear increase of the pedestal density gradients. The experimental results suggest also a possible reduction of the pedestal inter-ELM heat transport, however, the large experimental uncertainties do not allow conclusive claims on the heat diffusivity. The clear experimental reduction of η e (the ratio between density and temperature gradient lengths) in the middle/top of the pedestal with increasing A eff suggests that there may be a link between increasing A eff and the reduction of electron scale turbulent transport. From the modelling point of view, an initial characterization of the behaviour of pedestal microinstabilities shows that the tritium plasma is characterized by growth rates lower than the deuterium plasmas. The pedestal stability of peeling-ballooning modes is assessed with both ideal and resistive magnetohydrodynamics (MHD). No significant effect of the isotope mass on the pedestal stability is observed using ideal MHD. Instead, resistive MHD shows a clear increase of the stability with increasing isotope mass. The resistive MHD results are in reasonable agreement with the experimental results of the normalized pedestal pressure gradient. The experimental and modelling results suggest that the main candidates to explain the change in the pedestal are a reduction in the inter-ELM transport and an improvement of the pedestal stability from deuterium to tritium. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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