Journal
NUCLEAR FUSION
Volume 61, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/1741-4326/ac1c86
Keywords
kinetic MHD; pressure driven instabilities; helical plasma; numerical simulation
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- NIFS Collaboration Research program [NIFS20KNST158]
- Supercomputer Fugaku of the RIKEN Center for Computational Science [hp210178]
- MEXT
- Program for Promoting Research on the Supercomputer Fugaku (Exploration of Burning Plasma Confinement Physics)
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The kinetic thermal ions were found to have a significant stabilizing effect on LHD plasmas in kinetic MHD simulations. At high magnetic Reynolds numbers, the saturation level of pressure-driven MHD instabilities is significantly reduced by the kinetic thermal ions, allowing high beta plasmas to be maintained. This is attributed to the weaken response of trapped ions to instabilities due to precession drift motion in the three-dimensional magnetic field.
It is found that kinetic thermal ions have a significant stabilizing effect on Large Helical Device (LHD) plasmas from the kinetic magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations. The simulation results for the LHD plasmas at high magnetic Reynolds number show that the high beta plasmas can be maintained since the saturation level of the pressure-driven MHD instabilities is significantly reduced by the kinetic thermal ions. This results from the fact that the response of the trapped ions to the instabilities is weakened by the precession drift motion in the three-dimensional magnetic field. Thus the supercritical stability of the LHD plasmas well above the Mercier criterion can be attributed to the precession drift motion of the trapped ions in the three-dimensional magnetic field.
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