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The aim of this study is to analyze the destabilization of Alfven Eigenmodes (AE) by multiple energetic particles (EP) species in DIII-D and LHD discharges. We use the reduced MHD equations to describe the linear evolution of the poloidal…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-06-14 J. Varela , D. A. Spong , L. Garcia , Y. Todo , J. Huang , M. Murakami

The resonant and non-resonant effects of core plasma on the excitation of low frequency modes with $\omega < \omega_{BAE}$, such as Beta-induced Alfv\'en Acoustic Eigenmodes (BAAEs) and Kinetic Ballooning Modes (KBMs) are examined in the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-04-21 Ilija Chavdarovski , Fulvio Zonca , Liu Chen

The energy input and frequency shift of geodesic acoustic modes (GAMs) due to turbulence in tokamak edge plasmas are investigated in numerical two-fluid turbulence studies. Surprisingly, the turbulent GAM dispersion relation is…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-05-30 Robert Hager , Klaus Hallatschek

Effects of circulating energetic particles on the geodesic acoustic modes (GAMs) with finite wave numbers are analyzed by using the hybrid kinetic-fluid model. The dispersion relation is derived by adopting the slowing beam ions…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-05-07 Haijun Ren

Recently-proposed tokamak concepts use magnetic fields up to 12 T, far higher than in conventional devices, to reduce size and cost. Theoretical and computational study of trends in plasma behavior with increasing field strength is critical…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-02-19 E. A. Tolman , N. F. Loureiro , P. Rodrigues , J. W. Hughes , E. S. Marmar

A general criterion is proposed and found to successfully predict the emergence of chirping oscillations of unstable Alfv\'enic eigenmodes in tokamak plasma experiments. The model includes realistic eigenfunction structure, detailed…

We analyze the effects of the passing energetic particles on the resistive ballooning modes (RBM) and the energetic particle driven modes in JT-60SA plasma, which leads to the prediction of the stability in N-NBI heated plasma. The analysis…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-10-09 J. Varela , K. Y. Watanabe , K. Shinohara , M. Honda , Y. Suzuki , J. Shiraishi , D. A. Spong , L. Garcia

Recent measurements of microwave and X-ray emission during edge localised mode (ELM) activity in tokamak plasmas provide a fresh perspective on ELM physics. It is evident that electron kinetics, which are not incorporated in standard…

In recent years, a strong reduction of plasma turbulence in the presence of energetic particles has been reported in a number of magnetic confinement experiments and corresponding gyrokinetic simulations. While highly relevant to…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 A. Di Siena , T. Görler , E. Poli , A. Bañón Navarro , A. Biancalani , F. Jenko

The aim of this study is to analyze the stability of Alfven Eigenmodes (AE) in the China Fusion Engineering Test Reactor (CFETR) plasma for steady state operations. The analysis is done using the gyro-fluid code FAR3d including the effect…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-04-18 J. Varela , J. Huang , D. A. Spong , J. Chen , V. Chan , L. Garcia , A. Wingen , Y. Ghai , Y. Zou

Toroidal Alfv\'en eigenmodes (TAEs) can transport fusion-born energetic particles out of the plasma volume, thereby decreasing plasma self-heating efficiency and possibly damaging reactor walls. Therefore, understanding TAE destabilisation…

In this work, we present a novel kind of energetic particle modes with frequencies in the range of thermal ion diamagnetic and/or transit frequencies in burning plasmas. It is shown that the continuum structure can be broken by the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-04-09 Yang Li

A general theoretical framework for investigating nonlinear dynamics of phase space zonal structures is presented in this work. It is then, more specifically, applied to the limit where the nonlinear evolution time scale is smaller or…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Fulvio Zonca , Liu Chen , Sergio Briguglio , Giuliana Fogaccia , Gregorio Vlad , Xin Wang

Following the analysis on linear spectra of shear Alfv\'en fluctuations excited by energetic particles (EPs) in the Divertor Tokamak Test (DTT) facility plasmas [T. Wang et al., Phys. Plasmas 25, 062509 (2018)], in this work, nonlinear…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-01-30 Tao Wang , Xin Wang , Sergio Briguglio , Zhiyong Qiu , Gregorio Vlad , Fulvio Zonca

In this work, the gyrokinetic eigenvalue code LIGKA, the drift-kinetic/MHD hybrid code HMGC and the gyrokinetic full-f code TRIMEG-GKX are employed to study the mode structure details of Reversed Shear Alfv\'en Eigenmodes (RSAEs). Using the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-07-16 Guo Meng , Philipp Lauber , Xin Wang , Zhixin Lu

Linear and nonlinear modelling of Alfv\'enic instabilities, most notably toroidal Alfv\'en eigenmodes (TAEs), obtained by using the global nonlinear electromagnetic gyrokinetic model of the code ORB5 are presented for the 15 MA scenario of…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-12-11 T. Hayward-Schneider , Ph. Lauber , A. Bottino , Z. X. Lu

In this study, global nonlinear electromagnetic gyrokinetic simulations are conducted to investigate turbulence in the Internal transport barrier (ITB) region of the EAST tokamak discharge with weakly reversed magnetic shear. Linear…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-11-07 Yuehao Ma , Pengfei Liu , Jian Bao , Zhihong Lin , Huishan Cai

Nonlinear self-interaction of finite amplitude energetic particle induced geodesic acoustic mode (EGAM) is investigated using nonlinear gyrokinetic theory. It is found that both zero frequency zonal flow(ZFZF) and second harmonic can be…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-08-02 Zhiyong Qiu , Ilija Chavdarovski , Alessandro Biancalani , Jintao Cao

Numerical simulations of Alfv\'en modes (AM) driven by energetic particles are performed with the GK global PIC code ORB5. A reversed shear equilibrium magnetic field is adopted. A simplified configuration with circular flux surfaces and…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-11-05 A. Biancalani , A. Bottino , P. Lauber , A. Mishchenko , F. Vannini

Linear simulations of toriodal Alfv\'en eigenmodes (TAEs) driven by energetic particles (EPs) on EAST (Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak) are performed using the hybrid-kinetic MHD (HK-MHD) model implemented in NIMROD code. The…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-05-07 Yawei Hou , Charlson C. Kim , Ping Zhu , Zhihui Zou , Youjun Hu , Xingting Yan , the NIMROD Team