INVESTIGATION OF THE FORMATION OF A FULLY PRESSURE-DRIVEN TOKAMAK

被引：68

作者：

FOREST, CB ^{[1
]}

HWANG, YS ^{[1
]}

ONO, M ^{[1
]}

GREENE, G ^{[1
]}

JONES, T ^{[1
]}

CHOE, W ^{[1
]}

SCHAFFER, M ^{[1
]}

HYATT, A ^{[1
]}

OSBORNE, T ^{[1
]}

PINSKER, RI ^{[1
]}

PETTY, CC ^{[1
]}

LOHR, J ^{[1
]}

LIPPMANN, S ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] PRINCETON UNIV, PRINCETON, NJ 08543 USA

来源：

PHYSICS OF PLASMAS | 1994年 / 1卷 / 05期

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D O I：

10.1063/1.870708

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：

A noninductive current drive concept, based on internal pressure-driven currents in a low-aspect-ratio toroidal geometry, has been demonstrated on the Current Drive Experiment Upgrade (CDX-U) [Forest et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 68, 3559 (1992)] and further tested on DIII-D [in Plasma Physics and Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research, 1986, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference, Kyoto (International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, 1987), Vol. 1, p. 159]. For both experiments, electron cyclotron power provided the necessary heating to breakdown and maintain a plasma with high-beta(p) and low collisionality (epsilonbeta(p) approximately 1, nu* less-than-or-equal-to 1). A poloidal vacuum field similar to a simple magnetic mirror is superimposed on a much stronger toroidal field to provide the initial confinement for a hot, trapped electron species. With application of electron cyclotron heating (ECH), toroidal currents spontaneously flow within the plasma and increase with applied ECH power. The direction of the generated current is independent of the toroidal field direction and depends only on the direction of the poloidal field, scaling inversely with magnitude of the later. On both CDX-U and DIII-D, these currents were large enough that stationary closed flux surfaces were observed to form with no additional Ohmic heating. The existence of such equilibria provides further evidence for the existence of some type of bootstrap current. Equilibrium reconstructions show the resulting plasma exhibits properties similar to more conventional tokamaks, including a peaked current density profile which implies some form of current on axis or nonclassical current transport.

引用

页码：1568 / 1576

页数：9

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