Modelling plasma response to RMP fields in ASDEX Upgrade with varying edge safety factor and triangularity
Journal article, 2016
Toroidal computations are performed using the MARS-F code (Liu et al 2000 Phys. Plasmas 7 3681), in order to understand correlations between the plasma response and the observed mitigation of the edge localized modes (ELM) using resonant magnetic perturbation fields in ASDEX Upgrade. In particular, systematic numerical scans of the edge safety factor reveal that the amplitude of the resonant poloidal harmonic of the response radial magnetic field near the plasma edge, as well as the plasma radial displacement near the X-point, can serve as good indicators for predicting the optimal toroidal phasing between the upper and lower rows of coils in ASDEX Upgrade. The optimal coil phasing scales roughly linearly with the edge safety factor , for various choices of the toroidal mode number n = 1-4 of the coil configuration. The optimal coil phasing is also predicted to vary with the upper triangularity of the plasma shape in ASDEX Upgrade. Furthermore, multiple resonance effects of the plasma response, with continuously varying , are computationally observed and investigated.
MARS-F
ASDEX-Upgrade
plasma response
Author
L. Li
Ministry of Education China
Donghua University
Jülich Research Centre
Yueqiang Liu
Chalmers, Earth and Space Sciences, Plasma Physics and Fusion Energy
A. Kirk
Culham Science Centre
N. Wang
Jülich Research Centre
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Y. Liang
Jülich Research Centre
Donghua University
Chinese Academy of Sciences
D. Ryan
Culham Science Centre
University of York
W. Suttrop
Max Planck Society
M. Dunne
Max Planck Society
R. Fischer
Max Planck Society
J. C. Fuchs
Max Planck Society
B. Kurzan
Max Planck Society
P. Piovesan
Consorzio Rfx
M. Willensdorfer
Max Planck Society
F. C. Zhong
Donghua University
Nuclear Fusion
0029-5515 (ISSN) 1741-4326 (eISSN)
Vol. 56 12 Art. no. 126007- 126007Subject Categories (SSIF 2011)
Physical Sciences
Fusion, Plasma and Space Physics
DOI
10.1088/0029-5515/56/12/126007