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Stabilization of the kinetic internal kink mode by a sheared poloidal flow

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 1999

HIROSHI NAITOU
Affiliation:
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Yamaguchi University, Tokiwadai 2557, Ube 755-8611, Japan
TOSHIMITSU KOBAYASHI
Affiliation:
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Yamaguchi University, Tokiwadai 2557, Ube 755-8611, Japan
SHINJI TOKUDA
Affiliation:
Department of Fusion Plasma Research, Naka Fusion Research Establishment, Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, Naka, Ibaraki 311-0193, Japan

Abstract

The effects of a sheared poloidal flow on the m = 1 (poloidal mode number) and n = 1 (toroidal mode number) kinetic internal kink mode are simulated by the linearized version of the gyro-reduced MHD code, GRM3D-2F, based on a two-field and two-fluid gyro-reduced MHD model, including the kinetic effects of electron inertia and the perturbed electron pressure gradients along the magnetic field. A parameter study for different values of de (collisionless electron skin depth) with a fixed value of ρs = 0 (ion Larmor radius estimated by the electron temperature) shows that the smaller-de case, which has the smaller growth rate, is stabilized by the smaller sheared poloidal flow. When ρs is raised to ρs > de for a fixed value of de, the instability is stabilized by the smaller shear flow compared with the case of ρs < de, although the growth rate without the flow is larger for ρs > de. Since de is very much less than the minor radius, and ρs > de for the existing and future experiments, it is possible that even a quite small sheared poloidal flow may have a crucial influence on the kinetic internal kink mode.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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