Multi-scale transport in the DIII-D ITER baseline scenario with direct electron heating and projection to ITER (doi:10.7910/DVN/OEYHIH)

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Multi-scale transport in the DIII-D ITER baseline scenario with direct electron heating and projection to ITER

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doi:10.7910/DVN/OEYHIH

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Harvard Dataverse

Date of Distribution:

2021-04-14

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Grierson, B.A.; Staebler, G.M.; Solomon, W.M.; McKee, G.R.; Holland, C.; Austin, M.; Marinoni, A.; Schmitz, L.; Pinsker, R.I.; Team, Diii D., 2021, "Multi-scale transport in the DIII-D ITER baseline scenario with direct electron heating and projection to ITER", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/OEYHIH, Harvard Dataverse, V1

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Title:

Multi-scale transport in the DIII-D ITER baseline scenario with direct electron heating and projection to ITER

Identification Number:

doi:10.7910/DVN/OEYHIH

Authoring Entity:

Grierson, B.A.; Staebler, G.M.; Solomon, W.M.; McKee, G.R.; Holland, C.; Austin, M.; Marinoni, A.; Schmitz, L.; Pinsker, R.I.; Team, Diii D.

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Physics, dominant mechanism, energy confinement, fusion performance, neoclassical transport, neutral beam injection, short wavelengths, transport mechanism, turbulent transports

Abstract:

Multi-scale fluctuations measured by turbulence diagnostics spanning long and short wavelength spatial scales impact energy confinement and the scale-lengths of plasma kinetic profiles in the DIII-D ITER baseline scenario with direct electron heating. Contrasting discharge phases with ECH + neutral beam injection (NBI) and NBI only at similar rotation reveal higher energy confinement and lower fluctuations when only NBI heating is used. Modeling of the core transport with TGYRO using the TGLF turbulent transport model and NEO neoclassical transport reproduces the experimental profile changes upon application of direct electron heating and indicates that multi-scale transport mechanisms are responsible for changes in the temperature and density profiles. Intermediate and high-k fluctuations appear responsible for the enhanced electron thermal flux, and intermediate-k electron modes produce an inward particle pinch that increases the inverse density scale length. Projection to ITER is performed with TGLF and indicates a density profile that has a finite scale length due to intermediate-k electron modes at low collisionality and increases the fusion gain. For a range of E×B shear, the dominant mechanism that increases fusion performance is suppression of outward low-k particle flux and increased density peaking.

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<a href="http://library.psfc.mit.edu/catalog/reports/2010/18ja/18ja111/abstract.php">PSFC REPORT PSFC/JA-18-111</a><br /><br />This work is supported by U. S. DOE Contract Numbers(s): FG02-08ER54999; FG03-97ER54415; AC02-09CH11466; FC02-04ER54698; FG02- 08ER54984; FG02-04ER54235; FG02-07ER54917

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