Nonlinear dynamics of Shear Alfvén fluctuations in Divertor Tokamak Test facility plasmas

Following the analysis on linear spectra of shear Alfvén fluctuations excited by energetic particles (EPs) in the Divertor Tokamak Test (DTT) facility plasmas [T. Wang et al., Phys. Plasmas 25, 062509 (2018)], in this work, nonlinear dynamics of the corresponding mode saturation and the fluctuation...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2018-10
Main Authors: Wang, Tao, Wang, Xin, Briguglio, Sergio, Qiu, Zhiyong, Vlad, Gregorio, Zonca, Fulvio
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Decoupling
Energetic particles
Fluid dynamics
Fluid flow
Magnetohydrodynamics
Mesoscale phenomena
Nonlinear dynamics
Orbital resonances (celestial mechanics)
Plasmas (physics)
Saturation
Shear
Tokamak devices
Variation
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Summary:Following the analysis on linear spectra of shear Alfvén fluctuations excited by energetic particles (EPs) in the Divertor Tokamak Test (DTT) facility plasmas [T. Wang et al., Phys. Plasmas 25, 062509 (2018)], in this work, nonlinear dynamics of the corresponding mode saturation and the fluctuation induced EP transport is studied by hybrid magnetohydrodynamic-gyrokinetic simulations. For the reversed shear Alfvén eigenmode driven by magnetically trapped EP precession resonance in the central core region of DTT plasmas, the saturation is mainly due to radial decoupling of resonant trapped EPs. Consistent with the wave-EP resonance structure, EP transport occurs in a similar scale to the mode width. On the other hand, passing EP transport is analyzed in detail for toroidal Alfvén eigenmode in the outer core region, with mode drive from both passing and trapped EPs. It is shown that passing EPs experience only weak redistributions in the weakly unstable case; and the transport extends to meso-scale diffusion in the strongly unstable case, due to orbit stochasticity induced by resonance overlap. Here, weakly/strongly unstable regime is determined by Chirikov condition for resonance overlap. This work then further illuminates rich and diverse nonlinear EP dynamics related to burning plasma studies, and the capability of DTT to address these key physics.
ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.1810.05327