Investigation of island formation due to RMPs in DIII-D plasmas with the SIESTA resistive MHD equilibrium code

The SIESTA magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equilibrium code has been used to compute a sequence of ideally stable equilibria resulting from numerical variation of the helical resonant magnetic perturbation (RMP) applied to an axisymmetric DIII-D plasma equilibrium. Increasing the perturbation strength at...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of plasma physics 2016-04, Vol.82 (2), p.092503; 045001; 235003; 056122; 056105; 062504; 024004; 056115; 023002-092503; 045001; 235003; 056122; 056105; 062504; 024004; 056115; 023002, Article 905820202
Hauptverfasser: Hirshman, S. P., Shafer, M. W., Seal, S. K., Canik, J. M.
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:The SIESTA magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equilibrium code has been used to compute a sequence of ideally stable equilibria resulting from numerical variation of the helical resonant magnetic perturbation (RMP) applied to an axisymmetric DIII-D plasma equilibrium. Increasing the perturbation strength at the dominant $m=2$, $n=-1$ resonant surface leads to lower MHD energies and increases in the equilibrium island widths at the $m=2$ (and sidebands) surfaces, in agreement with theoretical expectations. Island overlap at large perturbation strengths leads to stochastic magnetic fields which correlate well with the experimentally inferred field structure. The magnitude and spatial phase (around the dominant rational surfaces) of the resonant (shielding) component of the parallel current are shown to change qualitatively with the magnetic island topology.
ISSN:0022-3778
1469-7807
DOI:10.1017/S0022377816000143