Turbulent Nature of the Quasicontinuous Exhaust Regime for Fusion Plasmas
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| author | Zhang, Kaiyu Zholobenko, Wladimir Stegmeir, Andreas Faitsch, Michael Eder, Konrad Pitzal, Christoph Jenko, Frank Team, ASDEX Upgrade |
| author_facet | Zhang, Kaiyu Zholobenko, Wladimir Stegmeir, Andreas Faitsch, Michael Eder, Konrad Pitzal, Christoph Jenko, Frank Team, ASDEX Upgrade |
| contents | We demonstrate a mechanism for reconciling high confinement with heat exhaust in fusion plasmas. Global fluid turbulence simulations of the Quasicontinuous Exhaust regime in the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak show that a quasi-coherent mode (QCM) causes the pedestal foot to oscillate across the separatrix and eject ballistic blobs into the scrape-off layer (SOL), reproducing not only mean profiles but also fluctuation spectra and mode structure seen in experiments. The QCM is a kinetic ballooning mode that develops an extended radial correlation length via electromagnetic self-organization of turbulence, thereby driving enhanced transport, with Maxwell stress and finite Larmor radius effects mediating the process. The blobs are launched when resistivity excites a secondary mode that originates from the X-point and interacts with QCM. The blob-dominated SOL temperature fall-off is then well decoupled from the pedestal-foot gradient set by the QCM. |
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| spellingShingle | Turbulent Nature of the Quasicontinuous Exhaust Regime for Fusion Plasmas Zhang, Kaiyu Zholobenko, Wladimir Stegmeir, Andreas Faitsch, Michael Eder, Konrad Pitzal, Christoph Jenko, Frank Team, ASDEX Upgrade Plasma Physics We demonstrate a mechanism for reconciling high confinement with heat exhaust in fusion plasmas. Global fluid turbulence simulations of the Quasicontinuous Exhaust regime in the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak show that a quasi-coherent mode (QCM) causes the pedestal foot to oscillate across the separatrix and eject ballistic blobs into the scrape-off layer (SOL), reproducing not only mean profiles but also fluctuation spectra and mode structure seen in experiments. The QCM is a kinetic ballooning mode that develops an extended radial correlation length via electromagnetic self-organization of turbulence, thereby driving enhanced transport, with Maxwell stress and finite Larmor radius effects mediating the process. The blobs are launched when resistivity excites a secondary mode that originates from the X-point and interacts with QCM. The blob-dominated SOL temperature fall-off is then well decoupled from the pedestal-foot gradient set by the QCM. |
| title | Turbulent Nature of the Quasicontinuous Exhaust Regime for Fusion Plasmas |
| topic | Plasma Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.03123 |