Major results from the stellarator Wendelstein 7-AS

被引：181

作者：

Hirsch, M. ^{[1
]}

Baldzuhn, J. ^{[1
]}

Beidler, C. ^{[1
]}

Brakel, R. ^{[1
]}

Burhenn, R. ^{[1
]}

Dinklage, A. ^{[1
]}

Ehmler, H. ^{[1
]}

Endler, M. ^{[1
]}

Erckmann, V. ^{[1
]}

Feng, Y. ^{[1
]}

Geiger, J. ^{[1
]}

Giannone, L. ^{[1
]}

Grieger, G. ^{[1
]}

Grigull, P. ^{[1
]}

Hartfuss, H-J ^{[1
]}

Hartmann, D. ^{[1
]}

Jaenicke, R. ^{[1
]}

Koenig, R. ^{[1
]}

Laqua, H. P. ^{[1
]}

Maassberg, H. ^{[1
]}

McCormick, K. ^{[1
]}

Sardei, F. ^{[1
]}

Speth, E. ^{[1
]}

Stroth, U. ^{[1
]}

Wagner, F. ^{[1
]}

Weller, A. ^{[1
]}

Werner, A. ^{[1
]}

Wobig, H. ^{[1
]}

Zoletnik, S. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] EURATOM, Max Planck Inst Plasmaphys, Teilinst Greifswald, D-17491 Greifswald, Germany

来源：

PLASMA PHYSICS AND CONTROLLED FUSION | 2008年 / 50卷 / 05期

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D O I：

10.1088/0741-3335/50/5/053001

中图分类号：

O35 [流体力学]; O53 [等离子体物理学];

学科分类号：

070204 ; 080103 ; 080704 ;

摘要：

Wendelstein 7-AS was the first modular stellarator device to test some basic elements of stellarator optimization: a reduced Shafranov shift and improved stability properties resulted in ss-values up to 3.4% (at 0.9 T). This operational limit was determined by power balance and impurity radiation without noticeable degradation of stability or a violent collapse. The partial reduction of neoclassical transport could be verified in agreement with calculations indicating the feasibility of the concept of drift optimization. A full neoclassical optimization, in particular a minimization of the bootstrap current was beyond the scope of this project. A variety of non-ohmic heating and current drive scenarios by ICRH, NBI and in particular, ECRH were tested and compared successfully with their theoretical predictions. Besides, new heating schemes of overdense plasmas were developed such as RF mode conversion heating Ordinary mode, Extraordinary mode, Bernstein-wave (OXB) heating - or 2nd harmonic O-mode (O2) heating. The energy confinement was about a factor of 2 above ISS95 without degradation near operational boundaries. A number of improved confinement regimes such as core electron-root confinement with central T-e <= 7 keV and regimes with strongly sheared radial electric field at the plasma edge resulting in T-i <= 1.7 keV were obtained. As the first non-tokamak device, W7-AS achieved the H-mode and moreover developed a high density H-mode regime (HDH) with strongly reduced impurity confinement that allowed quasi-steady-state operation (t approximate to 65.iota(E)) at densities (n) over bar (e) congruent to 4 x 10(20) m(-3) (at 2.5 T). The first island divertor was tested successfully and operated with stable partial detachment in agreement with numerical simulations. With these results W7-AS laid the physics background for operation of an optimized low-shear steady-state stellarator.

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