التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Assessing core ion thermal confinement in critical-gradient-optimized stellarators. |
| المؤلفون: |
Bañón Navarro, A., Roberg-Clark, G. T., Plunk, G. G., Fernando, D., Di Siena, A., Wilms, F., Jenko, F. |
| المصدر: |
Physics of Plasmas; Jun2024, Vol. 31 Issue 6, p1-11, 11p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
STELLARATORS, PLASMA turbulence, MAGNETIC confinement, ION temperature, PLASMA transport processes, GENETIC code, PLASMA boundary layers |
| مستخلص: |
We investigate the core confinement properties of two recently devised quasi-helically symmetric stellarator configurations, HSK and QSTK. Both have been optimized for large critical gradients of the ion temperature gradient mode, which is an important driver of turbulent transport in magnetic confinement fusion devices. To predict the resulting core plasma profiles, assuming a fixed edge temperature, we utilize an advanced theoretical framework based on the gyrokinetic codes GENE and GENE-3D, coupled to the transport code TANGO. Compared to the HSX stellarator, both HSK and QSTK achieve significantly higher core-to-edge temperature ratios, partly thanks to their smaller aspect ratios, with the other part due to more detailed shaping of the magnetic geometry achieved during optimization. The computed core confinement time, however, is less sensitive to core temperature than the fixed edge temperature, simply due to the disproportionate influence, the edge has on stored plasma energy. We, therefore, emphasize the possible benefits of further optimizing turbulence in the outer core region, and the need to include accurate modeling of confinement in the edge region in order to assess overall plasma performance of turbulence optimized stellarators. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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