Saturation of fishbone instability by self-generated zonal flows in tokamak plasmas
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| author | Brochard, G. Liu, C. Wei, X. Heidbrink, W. Lin, Z. Gorelenkov, N. Chrystal, C. Du, X. Bao, J. Polevoi, A. R. Schneider, M. Kim, S. H. Pinches, S. D. Liu, P. Nicolau, J. H. Lütjens, H. |
| author_facet | Brochard, G. Liu, C. Wei, X. Heidbrink, W. Lin, Z. Gorelenkov, N. Chrystal, C. Du, X. Bao, J. Polevoi, A. R. Schneider, M. Kim, S. H. Pinches, S. D. Liu, P. Nicolau, J. H. Lütjens, H. |
| contents | Gyrokinetic simulations of the fishbone instability in DIII-D tokamak plasmas find that self-generated zonal flows can dominate the nonlinear saturation by preventing coherent structures from persisting or drifting in the energetic particle phase space when the mode frequency down-chirps. Results from the simulation with zonal flows agree quantitatively, for the first time, with experimental measurements of the fishbone saturation amplitude and energetic particle transport. Moreover, the fishbone-induced zonal flows are likely responsible for the formation of an internal transport barrier that was observed after fishbone bursts in this DIII-D experiment. Finally, gyrokinetic simulations of a related ITER baseline scenario show that the fishbone induces insignificant energetic particle redistribution and may enable high performance scenarios in ITER burning plasma experiments. |
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| spellingShingle | Saturation of fishbone instability by self-generated zonal flows in tokamak plasmas Brochard, G. Liu, C. Wei, X. Heidbrink, W. Lin, Z. Gorelenkov, N. Chrystal, C. Du, X. Bao, J. Polevoi, A. R. Schneider, M. Kim, S. H. Pinches, S. D. Liu, P. Nicolau, J. H. Lütjens, H. Plasma Physics Gyrokinetic simulations of the fishbone instability in DIII-D tokamak plasmas find that self-generated zonal flows can dominate the nonlinear saturation by preventing coherent structures from persisting or drifting in the energetic particle phase space when the mode frequency down-chirps. Results from the simulation with zonal flows agree quantitatively, for the first time, with experimental measurements of the fishbone saturation amplitude and energetic particle transport. Moreover, the fishbone-induced zonal flows are likely responsible for the formation of an internal transport barrier that was observed after fishbone bursts in this DIII-D experiment. Finally, gyrokinetic simulations of a related ITER baseline scenario show that the fishbone induces insignificant energetic particle redistribution and may enable high performance scenarios in ITER burning plasma experiments. |
| title | Saturation of fishbone instability by self-generated zonal flows in tokamak plasmas |
| topic | Plasma Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.01792 |