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Study of intrinsic rotation by the Gyrokinetic Electromagnetic Numerical Experiment code in the Joint Texas Experimental Tokamak

Part of: Focus on Fusion

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2020

Duoqin Wang ,
Wei Yan Open the ORCID record for Wei Yan [Opens in a new window] ,
Zhongyong Chen ,
Xin Ye ,
Wei Li ,
Zhiyang Yin ,
Jie Hu ,
Wei Bai ,
Yu Zhong  and
J-TEXT Team
Duoqin Wang
Affiliation:
International Joint Research Laboratory of Magnetic Confinement Fusion and Plasma Physics, State Key Laboratory of Advanced Electromagnetic Engineering and Technology, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan430074, People’s Republic of China
Wei Yan*
Affiliation:
International Joint Research Laboratory of Magnetic Confinement Fusion and Plasma Physics, State Key Laboratory of Advanced Electromagnetic Engineering and Technology, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan430074, People’s Republic of China
Zhongyong Chen
Affiliation:
International Joint Research Laboratory of Magnetic Confinement Fusion and Plasma Physics, State Key Laboratory of Advanced Electromagnetic Engineering and Technology, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan430074, People’s Republic of China Chengdu University, 610106, Chengdu, People’s Republic of China
Xin Ye
Affiliation:
International Joint Research Laboratory of Magnetic Confinement Fusion and Plasma Physics, State Key Laboratory of Advanced Electromagnetic Engineering and Technology, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan430074, People’s Republic of China
Wei Li
Affiliation:
International Joint Research Laboratory of Magnetic Confinement Fusion and Plasma Physics, State Key Laboratory of Advanced Electromagnetic Engineering and Technology, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan430074, People’s Republic of China
Zhiyang Yin
Affiliation:
International Joint Research Laboratory of Magnetic Confinement Fusion and Plasma Physics, State Key Laboratory of Advanced Electromagnetic Engineering and Technology, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan430074, People’s Republic of China
Jie Hu
Affiliation:
International Joint Research Laboratory of Magnetic Confinement Fusion and Plasma Physics, State Key Laboratory of Advanced Electromagnetic Engineering and Technology, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan430074, People’s Republic of China
Wei Bai
Affiliation:
International Joint Research Laboratory of Magnetic Confinement Fusion and Plasma Physics, State Key Laboratory of Advanced Electromagnetic Engineering and Technology, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan430074, People’s Republic of China
Yu Zhong
Affiliation:
International Joint Research Laboratory of Magnetic Confinement Fusion and Plasma Physics, State Key Laboratory of Advanced Electromagnetic Engineering and Technology, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan430074, People’s Republic of China
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†Email address for correspondence: [email protected]
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Abstract

The core toroidal plasma intrinsic rotation has been studied by experiments and simulations in the Joint Texas Experimental Tokamak (J-TEXT). The direction of core intrinsic rotation in the J-TEXT plasma is counter-current. As the plasma density ramps up, the rotation velocity increases in the counter-current direction. By comparing four different electron densities, linear local gyrokinetic simulations have been performed by the Gyrokinetic Electromagnetic Numerical Experiment code for the first time on J-TEXT. It is found that the most dominant turbulence is the ion temperature gradient at $0.2a$, where $a$ is the minor radius of the plasma and this is unchanged during the plasma density ramp up. By scanning the radial wave vectors, it is found that the residual stress term reverses from negative to positive when the plasma density exceeds a certain threshold. The pinch term is larger than the residual stress term at all four electron densities, which means that the pinch term is always dominant in the core of a J-TEXT plasma.

Keywords

fusion plasmaplasma flowsplasma simulation
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Research Article
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Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 86 , Issue 3 , June 2020 , 815860301
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See the author list of Liang et al. (2019)

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