HL-2M tokamak operation scenario foreseeing to support ITER

New tokamak HL-2M (with plasma current Ip = 2.5~3 MA, toroidal field B = 2.2~3 T, major radius R = 1.78 m, minor radius a = 0.65 m) is dedicated to study key issues of high-performance plasma operation relevant to ITER. Since its first plasma in 2020, HL-2M has been extensively upgraded. The megampere plasma (Maximum plasma current ~1.2MA) was successfully realized in 2022. The flexible combination of around 40MW of auxiliary heating & current drive systems planed (NBI, ECRH, LHCD, ICRH) allows the machine to study classical ITER-like operation scenarios, i.e. the baseline, the hybrid and the steady state regimes. This talk will show the core performance foreseeing of these scenarios expected to realize in HL-2M, with integrated modeling method. Meanwhile, the core and pedestal instability activities, as well as divertor heat flux will be analyzed numerically. Relevant results is expected to contribute to HL-2M experiment operation of following steps.