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Optimized up-down asymmetry to drive fast intrinsic rotation in tokamaks

Ball, Justin
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Parra, Felix I.
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Landreman, Matt
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2018
Nuclear Fusion

Breaking the up-down symmetry of the tokamak poloidal cross-section can significantly increase the spontaneous rotation due to turbulent momentum transport. In this work, we optimize the shape of flux surfaces with both tilted elongation and tilted triangularity in order to maximize this drive of intrinsic rotation. Nonlinear gyrokinetic simulations demonstrate that adding optimally-tilted triangularity can double the momentum transport of a tilted elliptical shape. This work indicates that tilting the elongation and triangularity in an ITER-like device can reduce the energy transport and drive intrinsic rotation with an Alfven Mach number of roughly 1%. This rotation is four times larger than the rotation expected in ITER and is approximately what is needed to stabilize MHD instabilities. It is shown that this optimal shape can be created using the shaping coils of several present-day experiments.

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research article
DOI
10.1088/1741-4326/aa9a50
Web of Science ID

WOS:000418384200003

Author(s)
Ball, Justin
Parra, Felix I.
Landreman, Matt
Barnes, Michael
Date Issued

2018

Publisher

IOP Publishing Ltd

Published in
Nuclear Fusion
Volume

58

Issue

2

Article Number

026003

Subjects

gyrokinetics

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magnetohydrodynamics

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tokamaks

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plasma turbulence

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transport properties

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nonlinear simulations

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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January 15, 2018
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/143973
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