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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…

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Alfven Eigenmodes (AE) can be destabilized by energetic particles in neutral beam injection (NBI) heated plasmas through inverse Landau damping and couplings with gap modes in the shear Alfven continua. We describe the linear evolution of…

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Alfven Eigenmodes (AE) can be destabilized during ITER discharges driven by neutral beam injection (NBI) energetic particles (EP) and alpha particles. The aim of the present study is to analyze the AE stability of different ITER operation…

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Energetic particle populations in nuclear fusion experiments can destabilize Alfv\' en Eigenmodes through inverse Landau damping and couplings with gap modes in the shear Alfv\' en continua. We use the reduced MHD equations to describe the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-04-12 J. Varela , D. A. Spong , L. Garcia

The aim of the present study is to perform a theoretical analysis of different strategies to stabilize energetic-ion-driven resistive interchange mode (EIC) in LHD plasma. We use a reduced MHD for the thermal plasma coupled with a gyrofluid…

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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…

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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

While much about Alfven eigenmode (AE) stability has been explored in previous and current tokamaks, open questions remain for future burning plasma experiments, especially regarding exact stability threshold conditions and related isotope…

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Future nuclear fusion reactors will have to confine plasma with strong kinetic gradients and small fractions of fusion-born energetic particles (EP) that are ~100 times hotter than the thermal ions. In our analysis, we assume the existence…

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Recent upgrades in H-1 power supplies have enabled the operation of the H-1 experiment at higher heating powers than previously attainable. A heating power scan in mixed hydrogen/helium plasmas reveals a change in mode activity with…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 M. J. Hole , B. D. Blackwell , G. Bowden , M. Cole , A. Konies , C. Michael , F. Zhao , S. R. Haskey

Recent study has demonstrated that electron cyclotron harmonic (ECH) waves can be excited by a low energy electron beam. Such waves propagate at moderately oblique wave normal angles (~70). The potential effects of beam-driven ECH waves on…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-06-04 Xu Zhang , Xin An , Vassilis Angelopoulos , Anton Artemyev , Xiao-Jia Zhang , Ying-Dong Jia

The aim of the present study is to analyze the saturation regime of the Toroidal Alfven Eigenmodes (TAE) in the LHD plasma, particularly the MHD burst. The linear and nonlinear evolution of the TAEs are simulated by the FAR3d code that uses…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-04-18 J. Varela , D. A. Spong , Y. Todo , L. Garcia , Y. Ghai , J. Ortiz , R. Seki

The energetic electrons (EEs) generated through auxiliary heating have been found to destabilize various Alfven eigenmodes (AEs) in recent experiments, which in turn lead to the EE transport and degrade the plasma energy confinement. In…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-05-10 Jian Bao , Wenlu Zhang , Ding Li , Zhihong Lin , Zhiyong Qiu , Wei Chen , Xiang Zhu , Junyi Cheng , Chao Dong , Jintao Cao

The confinement of energetic particles (EP) is crucial for an efficient heating of tokamak plasmas. Plasma instabilities such as Alfven Eigenmodes (AE) can redistribute the EP population making the plasma heating less effective, and leading…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-04-26 A. Biancalani , A. Bottino , M. Cole , C. Di Troia , Ph. Lauber , A. Mishchenko , B. Scott , F. Zonca

In future nuclear fusion reactors, even a small fraction of fusion-born energetic particles (EP) about 100 times hotter than the thermal bulk species, contributes substantially to the kinetic pressure and therefore affect the MHD…

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