Radio frequency induced and neoclassical asymmetries and their effects on turbulent impurity transport in a tokamak
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2014

Poloidal asymmetries in the impurity density can be generated by radio frequency heating in the core and by neoclassical effects in the edge of tokamak plasmas. In a pedestal case study, using global neoclassical simulations we find that finite orbit width effects can generate significant poloidal variation in the electrostatic potential, which varies on a small radial scale. Gyrokinetic modeling shows that these poloidal asymmetries can be strong enough to significantly modify turbulent impurity peaking. In the pedestal the ExB drift in the radial electric field can give a larger contribution to the poloidal motion of impurities than that of their parallel streaming. Under such circumstances we find that up-down asymmetries can also affect impurity peaking.

Författare

Istvan Pusztai

Chalmers, Teknisk fysik, Nukleär teknik

Matt Landreman

Albert Mollén

Chalmers, Teknisk fysik, Nukleär teknik

Tünde Fülöp

Chalmers, Teknisk fysik, Nukleär teknik

Contributions to Plasma Physics

0863-1042 (ISSN) 1521-3986 (eISSN)

Vol. 54 4-6 534-542

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Hållbar utveckling

Styrkeområden

Energi

Ämneskategorier

Fusion, plasma och rymdfysik

DOI

10.1002/ctpp.201410012

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