Speaker
Dr
Satoshi Yamamoto
(Institute of Advanced Energy, Kyoto University)
Description
The helically-trapped energetic-particle (EP) driven resistive interchange mode (EIC) observed in the Large Helical Device (LHD) causes large amount loss of EPs. It is destabilized when the precession motion of the helically trapped EP resonates with the pressure driven mode. A velocity modulation caused by the toroidicity of the magnetic field produces this resonance. Strategy and the initial results to suppress the EIC mode based on the knowledge of the EP orbit effects, by the ECH heating and by the RMP application, are presented.
EPs having perpendicular velocity components are trapped in the weak magnetic field region of the LHD and making precession motion helically. The rotation frequency of this precession motion is slow enough to interact with the pressure driven MHD modes. If the energy transfer from the EP to the mode is estimated by evaluating the correlation of the fluctuating component of the precession motion and the MHD mode, a resonance is found when the MHD mode rotates poloidally -1.2 times of the poloidal component of the heliccally trapped EP motion. This resonance disucssed here is consistent with the following observations found in the hydrogen / deuterium experimental campaign. 1) MHD mode rotates in the electron diamagnetic drift direction while the EP moves in the ion diamagnetic drift direction. 2) The mode frequency is almost the same with the precession frequence of the initial velocity of the NB-injected EPs.
The EIC modes are succesufully suppressed by the ECH injection and RMP application. The physical mechnism of the stabilization will be discussed.
| Country or International Organization | Japan |
|---|---|
| Paper Number | EX/1-3Rb |
Primary author
Dr
Satoshi Ohdachi
(National Institute for Fusion Science)
Co-authors
Dr
Hiromi Takahashi
(National Institute for Fusion Science)
Prof.
Kazuo Toi
(National Institute for Fusion Science)
Prof.
Kenichi Nagaoka
(National Institute for Fusion Science)
Dr
Kiyomasa WATANABE
(National Institute for Fusion Science)
Prof.
Masaki Osakabe
(National Institute for Fusion Science)
Dr
Takahiro Bando
(SOKENDAI (The graduate university for advanced studies))
Dr
Tomohiro Morisaki
(National Institute for Fusion Science)
Dr
Yasuhiro Suzuki
(National Institute for Fusion Science)
xiaodi du
(NIFS)
