Toroidal modeling of interaction between resistive wall mode and plasma flow
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2013

The non-linear interplay between the resistive wall mode (RWM) and the toroidal plasma flow is numerically investigated in a full toroidal geometry, by simultaneously solving the initial value problems for the n 1⁄4 1 RWM and the n 1⁄4 0 toroidal force balance equation. Here, n is the toroidal mode number. The neoclassical toroidal viscous torque is identified as the major momentum sink that brakes the toroidal plasma flow during the non-linear evolution of the RWM. This holds for a mode that is initially either unstable or stable. For an initially stable RWM, the braking of the flow, and hence the eventual growth of the mode, depends critically on the initial perturbation amplitude.

non-linear interaction

Resistive Wall Mode

Numerical modeling

plasma flow

Författare

Yueqiang Liu

Culham Science Centre

Yuowen Sun

Chinese Academy of Sciences

Physics of Plasmas

1070-664X (ISSN) 1089-7674 (eISSN)

Vol. 20 2 022505-

Styrkeområden

Energi

Fundament

Grundläggande vetenskaper

Ämneskategorier

Fusion, plasma och rymdfysik

DOI

10.1063/1.4793449

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