Broadening of the Divertor Heat Flux Profile in High Confinement Tokamak Fusion Plasmas with Edge Pedestals Limited by Turbulence in DIII-D

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العنوان: Broadening of the Divertor Heat Flux Profile in High Confinement Tokamak Fusion Plasmas with Edge Pedestals Limited by Turbulence in DIII-D
المؤلفون: Ernst, D. R., Bortolon, A., Chang, C. S., Ku, S., Scotti, F., Wang, H. Q., Yan, Z., Chen, Jie, Chrystal, C., Glass, F., Haskey, S., Hood, R., Khabanov, F., Laggner, F., Lasnier, C., McKee, G. R., Rhodes, T. L., Truong, D., Watkins, J.
المصدر: Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 235102 (2024)
سنة النشر: 2024
المجموعة: Physics (Other)
مصطلحات موضوعية: Physics - Plasma Physics
الوصف: Multi-machine empirical scaling predicts an extremely narrow heat exhaust layer in future high magnetic field tokamaks, producing high power densities that require mitigation. In the experiments presented, the width of this exhaust layer is nearly doubled using actuators to increase turbulent transport in the plasma edge. This is achieved in low collisionality, high confinement edge pedestals with their gradients limited by turbulent transport instead of large-scale, coherent instabilities. The exhaust heat flux profile width and divertor leg diffusive spreading both double as a high frequency band of turbulent fluctuations propagating in the electron diamagnetic direction doubles in amplitude. The results are quantitatively reproduced in electromagnetic XGC particle-in-cell simulations which show the heat flux carried by electrons emerges to broaden the heat flux profile, directly supported by Langmuir probe measurements.
Comment: 8 pages, 11 figures
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.235102
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2403.00185
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2403.00185
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv
الوصف
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.132.235102