Advanced tokamak physics in DIII-D

Authors
Petty, CC Luce, TC Politzer, PA Wade, MR Allen, SL Austin, ME Bray, B Burrell, KH Casper, TA Chu, MS Ferron, JR Fredrickson, ED Garofalo, AM Gohil, P Gorelov, I Greenfield, CM Heidbrink, WW Hsieh, CL Hyatt, AW Jayakumar, R Johnson, LC Kinsey, JE La Haye, RJ Lao, LL Lasnier, CJ Lazarus, EA Leonard, AW Lin-Liu, YR Lohr, J Mahdavi, MA Makowski, MA McKee, GR Murakami, M Navratil, GA Okabayashi, M Petrie, TW Pinsker, RI Prater, R Rettig, CL Rhodes, TL Rice, BW Scoville, JT Staebler, GM Strait, EJ Taylor, TS Watkins, JG West, WP Wolf, NS Wong, KL
Citation
Cc. Petty et al., Advanced tokamak physics in DIII-D, PLASMA PHYS, 42, 2000, pp. B75-B85
Citations number
43
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
PLASMA PHYSICS AND CONTROLLED FUSION
ISSN journal
07413335 → ACNP
Volume
42
Year of publication
2000
Supplement
12B
Pages
B75 - B85
Database
ISI
SICI code
0741-3335(200012)42:<B75:ATPID>2.0.ZU;2-Y
Abstract
Advanced tokamaks seek to achieve a high bootstrap current fraction without sacrificing fusion power density or fusion gain. Good progress has been ma de towards the DIII-D research goal of demonstrating a high-beta advanced t okamak plasma in steady state with a relaxed, fully non-inductive current p rofile and a bootstrap current fraction greater than 50%. The limiting fact ors for transport, stability, and current profile control in advanced opera ting modes are discussed in this paper.