Predicting the stability of alpha-particle-driven Alfv´ en Eigenmodes in burning plasmas
- P. Rodrigues, D. Borba, N. F. Loureiro, A. Figueiredo,
- J. Ferreira, R. Coelho, F. Nabais, and L. Fazendeiro
INSTITUTO DE PLASMAS E FUSÃO NUCLEAR
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Predicting the stability of alpha-particle-driven Alfv en Eigenmodes in burning plasmas P. Rodrigues, D. Borba, N. F. Loureiro, A. Figueiredo, J. Ferreira, R. Coelho, F. Nabais, and L. Fazendeiro INSTITUTO DE PLASMAS E FUSO NUCLEAR
INSTITUTO DE PLASMAS E FUSÃO NUCLEAR
1Instituto de Plasmas e Fus˜
This work was carried out within the framework of the EUROfusion Consortium and received funding from the Euratom research and training programme 2014-2018 under grant agreement no. 633053. IST activities received financial support from “Funda¸ c˜ ao para a Ciˆ encia e Tecnologia” (FCT) through project UID/FIS/50010/2013. The views and opinions expressed herein do not necessarily reflect those of the European Commission or IST. All computations were carried out using the HELIOS supercomputer system at the Computational Simulation Centre of the International Fusion Energy Research Centre (IFERC-CSC) in Aomori, Japan, under the Broader Approach collaboration between Euratom and Japan implemented by Fusion for Energy and JAEA. PR was supported by EUROfusion Consortium grant no. WP14-FRF-IST/Rodrigues and NFL was supported by FCT grant no. IF/00530/2013. The authors thank
scenario data.
[Fasoli 2007]
1 Systematic approach to the stability of AEs in fusion plasmas;
2 Stability assessment of ITER’s Ip = 15 MA baseline scenario;
3 Sensitivity analysis of ITER’s Ip = 15 MA baseline scenario;
4 Discuss properties of the wave-particle resonant interaction;
5 Summary and conclusions.
1 Scan the frequency and toroidal-n ranges with
2 Evaluate the energy exchange between AEs and each species
1
2
3
1 Which are the most unstable Alfv´
2 Are stability properties sensitive to small perturbations?
Plasma species temperature and density distributions [Polevoi 2002].
Alfv´ en continuum (n = 10, . . . , 50, from dark to light hues), normalized density, and safety factor.
Net γ/ωA versus n for ∼ 700 AEs found in three frequency gaps: TAEs (ω/ωA ∼ 0.5), EAEs (ω/ωA ∼ 1), and NAEs (ω/ωA ∼ 1.5). Each AE is colored by its frequency. [Rodrigues 2015]
10 20 30 40 50 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 n s 0.5 1 1.5 ω/ωA AEs radial localization (circles) and width (horizontal bars) distribution by toroidal number n. Each AE is colored by its normalized frequency (top) and growth rate (bottom). [Rodrigues 2015]
10 20 30 40 50 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 n s
1 102γ/ωA
Net γ/ωA distribution by toroidal mode number n for TAEs only; Each mode is colored by the radial location of its maximum amplitude. [Rodrigues 2015]
γ ωA and n of the most unstable AEs?
0.9 1 1.1 1.2 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 q(s) s I−δ Iref I+ δ
2
Safety-factor profiles for three values of Ip.
2
Linear growth rate versus n for the three Ip values Iref, I+ δ
2
, and I−δ.
0s
as
ε˜ Ω
0 ≈ 0.07, ε = a/R0 ≈ 0.3, ˜
0;
1 2 10 20 30 40 50 102γ/ωA n 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.6 0.7 0.8 smax 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 1.2 δWα(a.u.) Λ n = 31 n = 25
Resonant energy transfer δWα by Λ value (right) for the two most unstable modes (n = 25 and n = 31) in each of the two TAE families (left).
1 0.35 0.4 0.45 0.5 eigf.(a.u.) s sAE 1 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 δWα(a.u.) Λ Energy transfer δWα from orbits drifting around the surface sorb, with energy E and for five distinct Λ values. Resonance lines Γ(sorb, E, Λ) = 0 are in gray and the AE (n = 25) rational magnetic surface sAE [such that n q(sAE) = n + 1/2] is in black.
1 0.3 0.35 0.4 0.45 eigf.(a.u.) s 1 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 δWα(a.u.) Λ Energy transfer δWα from orbits with energy E, normalized toroidal momentum Pφ, and Λmax for the most unstable AE in the set (n = 31).
2mv2 A;
[Heidbrink 2007]
2q vA R0 ;
2)/n,
v2 A;
ar and v⊥ ∼ v2
εr q2 ;
ω
˜ Ω
vA
˜ Ω E EA
ω
1 0.3 0.35 0.4 0.45 eigf.(a.u.) s 1 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 δWα(a.u.) Λ Energy transfer δWα from orbits with energy E, normalized toroidal momentum Pφ, and Λmax for the most unstable TAE in the set (n = 31).
˜ Ω E EA
Energy transfer δWα from
Λmax values for the n = 25 and n = 31 TAEs. 1 0 0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.5 δWα(a.u.) Λ
v R0 + ω1 φ and ωθ = v qR0 + ω1 θ;
φ − qω1 θ
2q v R0
φ, ω1 θ ∝ v2
0Ω = ωA
˜ Ω E EA
B − Λ
φ, ω1 θ, and v/q;
0.1 0.2 0.3 0.4 0.8 1 1.2 1.4 1.6 1.8 2 Λ x =
xb Points along resonance lines Γ(x, Λ) as computed by CASTOR-K for the n = 25 (blue) and n = 31 (red) TAEs. The black line stands for the birth-energy limit xb.
1 An approach was developed to handle routine stability
2 For the ITER baseline scenario considered:
3 The stability of ITER baseline scenario was found to be
0;
4 The properties of wave-particle resonant interaction in ITER
c
1 Fusion αs are a very diluted population, with nα/nMHD ≪ 1; 2 Fluid and kinetic models interact via the pressure tensor only;
1 δ̺, δp, δv, and δA are found from ω2
MHDWK = δWMHD;
2 The αs response δfα to the MHD perturbation is
3 The energy exchanged is the phase-space integral
[Porcelli 1994]
4 The frequency correction δω due to the α interaction is:
MHDWK