Speaker
Mr
Jerry Hughes
(USA)
Description
Improvement in global confinement and fusion performance are found to be correlated with the pressure at the top of the edge barrier ("pedestal height") both in experiments and theory. Performance predictions for future devices such as ITER rely on experimental validations of the hypothesis in the predictive models. To date, the leading model for pedestal structure prediction is EPED. This model uses both the peeling ballooning theory to limit the pedestal height and relies on the onset of the kinetic ballooning mode (KBM) to constrain the pedestal gradient. This paper presents detailed measurements on an edge instability limiting the pedestal temperature after edge-localized-modes (ELM) on Alcator-Mod. Using a suite edge diagnostics and a magnetic probe placed near the separatrix, this instability was determined to be on ion scale and its onset is consistent with the KBM. This instability was corroborated using gyrokinetic calculations in the edge, The edge pedestal was determined to be ballooning unstable. In addition to the identification of the instability, the paper will also assess the levels of transport produced by this instability.
Work supported by U.S. DoE contracts DE-FC02-99ER54512 and DE-AC02-09CH11466.
| Country or International Organisation | USA |
|---|---|
| Paper Number | EX/3-2 |
Primary author
Dr
Ahmed Diallo
(Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory- Princeton University USA)
Co-authors
Dr
Alexei Pankin
(Tech-X Corporation)
Dr
Amanda Hubbard
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Plasma Science and Fusion Center)
Prof.
Anne White
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Plasma Science and Fusion Center)
Dr
Brian LaBombard
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Plasma Science and Fusion Center)
Dr
Christian Theiler
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Plasma Science and Fusion Center)
Mr
Evan Davis
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Plasma Science and Fusion Center)
Dr
James Terry
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Plasma Science and Fusion Center)
Mr
Jerry Hughes
(USA)
John Canik
(Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Mr
John Walk
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Plasma Science and Fusion Center)
Dr
Luis F. Delgado-Aparicio
(Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory)
Martin Greenwald
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Plasma Science and Fusion Center)
Dr
Matthew Reinke
(University of York, United Kingdom.)
Mr
Michael Churchill
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Plasma Science and Fusion Center)
Prof.
Miklos Porkolab
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Plasma Science and Fusion Center)
Dr
Philip B. Snyder
(General Atomics)
Dr
S-G Baek
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Plasma Science and Fusion Center)
Mr
Theodore Golfinopolous
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Plasma Science and Fusion Center)
