| PHYSICS OF GASES, PLASMAS, AND ELECTRIC DISCHARGES |
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Impact of Sheath Boundary Conditions and Magnetic Flutter on Evolution and Distribution of Transient Particle and Heat Fluxes in the Edge-Localized Mode Burst by Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak Simulation |
| Yan-Bin Wu1,2,3, Tian-Yang Xia3**, Fang-Chuan Zhong1**, Bin Gui3, EAST Team |
1College of Science, Donghua University, Shanghai 201620
2School of Physics and Electronic Engineering, Anqing Normal University, Anqing 246133
3Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031
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Yan-Bin Wu, Tian-Yang Xia, Fang-Chuan Zhong et al 2019 Chin. Phys. Lett. 36 045201 |
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Abstract To study the evolution and distribution of the transient particle and heat fluxes during the edge-localized modes (ELMs) burst on the experimental advanced superconducting tokamak (EAST), the BOUT$^{++}$ six-field two-fluid model with sheath boundary conditions (SBCs) and magnetic flutter terms in the parallel thermal conduction is used to simulate the evolution of the profiles and growing process of the fluxes at divertor targets. Although SBCs hardly play a role in the linear phase, in the nonlinear phase both SBCs and magnetic flutter can change the dominant toroidal mode. SBCs are able to broaden the frequency distribution of the turbulence. The magnetic flutter increases the ELM size from 2.8% to 8.4%, and it doubles the amplitudes of the radial heat and particle transport coefficients at outer midplane (OMP), at around 1.0 m$^{2}$s$^{-1}$. It is then able to increase the particle and heat flux at the divertor targets and to broaden the radial distribution of the parallel heat flux towards the targets.
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Received: 07 November 2018
Published: 23 March 2019
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52.55.Fa
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(Tokamaks, spherical tokamaks)
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52.55.Dy
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(General theory and basic studies of plasma lifetime, particle and heat loss, energy balance, field structure, etc.)
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52.55.Rk
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(Power exhaust; divertors)
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| Fund: Supported by the National Key R&D Program of China under Grant Nos 2017YFE0301100, 2017YFE0301101, 2017YFE0301104 and 2014GB106001, the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos 11275047, 11675217, 11505236 and 11405215, the Youth Innovation Promotion Association Chinese Academy of Sciences under Grant No 2017479, and the K. C. Wong Education Foundation. |
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