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Destabilizing effects of edge infernal components on n = 1 resistive wall modes in CFETR 1GW steady-state operating scenario

Plasma Physics 2021-05-25 v1

Abstract

The stability of the n=1n=1 resistive wall modes (RWMs) is investigated using the AEGIS code for the newly designed China Fusion Engineering Test Reactor (CFETR) 1GW steady-state operating (SSO) scenario. Here, nn is the toroidal mode number. Due to the large fraction of bootstrap current contribution, the profile of safety factor q is deeply reversed in magnetic shear in the central core region and locally flattened within the edge pedestal. Consequently the pressure-driven infernal components develop in the corresponding q-flattened regions of both core and edge. However, the edge infernal components dominate the n=1n=1 RWM structure and lead to lower βN\beta_N limits than the designed target βN\beta_N for the CFETR 1GW SSO scenario. The edge rotation is found the most critical to the stabilization due to the dominant influence of the edge infernal components, which should be maintained above 1.5%ΩA01.5\%\Omega_{A0} in magnitude in order for the rotation alone to fully suppress the n=1n=1 RWM in the CFETR 1GW SSO scenario.

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@article{arxiv.2105.11149,
  title  = {Destabilizing effects of edge infernal components on n = 1 resistive wall modes in CFETR 1GW steady-state operating scenario},
  author = {Rui Han and Ping Zhu and Linjin Zheng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.11149},
  year   = {2021}
}

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8 pages, 10 figures