Response of DIII-D Discharges in ITER Baseline Scenario Regime to Incremental Heating Power

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Abstract

Experiments on DIII-D have been performed in which discharges in the ITER Baseline Scenario regime have been perturbed with 1-2 MW of additional heating power. With a base of $\sim$3 MW of neutral beam (NB) power, incremental electron cyclotron heating (ECH), fast waves (FWs) at 90 MHz and 60 MHz, or additional NB power has been introduced into a quasi-stationary phase of the flattop. The responses of the thermal profiles, D-D neutron rate, total stored energy, etc. to the different forms of heating power show that both incremental EC and FW power engender increases in heat, particle, and momentum diffusivity in response to the changes in power deposition profiles and $T_e/T_i$. This is manifested as a flattening of the central density profile and a slowing of the toroidal rotation velocity. TRANSP shows that the neutron rate is as expected for incremental NB and EC, while some FW power damps on NB ions and enhances the neutron rate significantly.

Authors

  • R.I. Pinsker

    General Atomics, GA

  • G.L. Jackson

    General Atomics, GA

  • D.C. Pace

    GA

  • B.A. Grierson

    PPPL

  • J.C. Hosea

    PPPL

  • A. Nagy

    PPPL

  • R. Perkins

    PPPL

  • W.M. Solomon

    PPPL

  • G. Taylor

    Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, PPPL

  • M. Porkolab

    MIT

  • M.E. Austin

    U.Texas Austin, IFS, The University of Texas at Austin, U. Texas-Austin, U.Texas-Austin, UT-Austin

  • Stephanie Diem

    Oak Ridge National Laboratory, ORNL

  • P.M. Ryan

    ORNL

  • F. Turco

    Columbia U.