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PHYSICS OF PLASMAS
卷 21, 期 4, 页码 -出版社
AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/1.4871387
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- U.S. DOE [DE-SC0010416, DE-FG02-07ER54916]
- China National Magnetic Confinement Fusion Science Program [2013GB111000, 2011GB105001]
- DOE [DE-AC05-00OR22725, DE-AC02-05CH11231]
- U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) [DE-FG02-07ER54916, DE-SC0010416] Funding Source: U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
Gyrokinetic simulations of electrostatic driftwave instabilities in a tokamak edge have been carried out to study the turbulent transport in the pedestal of an H-mode plasma. The simulations use annulus geometry and focus on two radial regions of a DIII-D experiment: the pedestal top with a mild pressure gradient and the middle of the pedestal with a steep pressure gradient. A reactive trapped electron instability with a typical ballooning mode structure is excited by trapped electrons in the pedestal top. In the middle of the pedestal, the electrostatic instability exhibits an unusual mode structure, which peaks at the poloidal angle theta = +/-pi/2. The simulations find that this unusual mode structure is due to the steep pressure gradients in the pedestal but not due to the particular DIII-D magnetic geometry. Realistic DIII-D geometry appears to have a stabilizing effect on the instability when compared to a simple circular tokamak geometry. (C) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC.
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