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Global fluid simulation of plasma turbulence in a stellarator with an island divertor

Caeiro Heitor Coelho, António João  
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Loizu, Joaquim  
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Ricci, Paolo  
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May 17, 2022
Nuclear Fusion

Results of a three-dimensional, flux-driven, electrostatic, global, two-fluid turbulence simulation for a five-field period stellarator with an island divertor are presented. The numerical simulation is carried out with the GBS code, recently extended to simulate plasma turbulence in non-axisymmetric magnetic equilibria. The vacuum magnetic field used in the simulation is generated with the theory of Dommaschk potentials, and describes a configuration with a central region of nested flux surfaces, surrounded by a chain of magnetic islands, similar to the diverted configurations of W7-X. The heat outflowing from the core reaches the island region and is transported along the magnetic islands, striking the vessel walls, which correspond to the boundary of the simulation domain. The radial transport of particles and heat is found to be mainly driven by a field-aligned coherent mode with poloidal number m = 4. The analysis of this mode, based on non-local linear theory considerations, shows its ballooning nature. In contrast to tokamak simulations and experiments, where blobs often contribute to transport, we do not observe the presence of intermittent transport events.

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research article
DOI
10.1088/1741-4326/ac6ad2
Author(s)
Caeiro Heitor Coelho, António João  
Loizu, Joaquim  
Ricci, Paolo  
Giacomin, Maurizio  
Date Issued

2022-05-17

Publisher

IOP Publishing Ltd

Published in
Nuclear Fusion
Volume

62

Article Number

074004

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CRPP_EDGE

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