Speaker
Dr
Ahmet Aydemir
(National Fusion Research Institute, Daejeon, Korea)
Description
Explosive growth of a ballooning finger is demonstrated in nonlinear magnetohydrodynamic calculations of high-beta disruptions in tokamaks. The explosive finger is formed by an ideally unstable n=1 mode, dominated by an m/n=2/1 component. The quadrupole geometry of the 2/1 perturbed pressure field provides a generic mechanism for the formation of the initial ballooning finger and its subsequent transition from exponential to explosive growth, without relying on secondary processes. The explosive ejection of the hot plasma from the core and stochastization of the magnetic field occur in Alfvenic time scales, accounting for the extremely fast growth of the precursor oscillations and the rapidity of the thermal quench in some high-beta disruptions.
| Country or International Organization | South Korea |
|---|---|
| Paper Number | TH/P1-17 |
Primary author
Dr
Ahmet Aydemir
(National Fusion Research Institute, Daejeon, Korea)
Co-authors
Dr
Byoungho Park
(National Fusion Research Institute)
Dr
Hyungho LEE
(National Fusion Research Institute)
Dr
JaeChun Seol
(National Fusion Research Institute)
Dr
Sang Gon Lee
(National Fusion Research Institute)
Dr
Yongkyoon In
(National Fusion Research Institute)
