High-performance discharges in the Small Tight Aspect Ratio Tokamak (START)

被引：38

作者：

Gates, DA ^{[1
]}

Akers, R ^{[1
]}

Appel, L ^{[1
]}

Carolan, PG ^{[1
]}

Conway, N ^{[1
]}

Dowling, J ^{[1
]}

Gryaznevich, M ^{[1
]}

Hender, T ^{[1
]}

Kwon, OJ ^{[1
]}

Martin, R ^{[1
]}

Nightingale, M ^{[1
]}

Price, M ^{[1
]}

Roach, C ^{[1
]}

Sykes, A ^{[1
]}

Tournianski, MR ^{[1
]}

Walsh, M ^{[1
]}

Warrick, CD ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] UKAEA Euratom Fus Assoc, Culham Lab, Abingdon OX14 3DB, Oxon, England

来源：

PHYSICS OF PLASMAS | 1998年 / 5卷 / 05期

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D O I：

10.1063/1.872819

中图分类号：

O35 [流体力学]; O53 [等离子体物理学];

学科分类号：

070204 ; 080103 ; 080704 ;

摘要：

The Small Tight Aspect Ratio Tokamak (START) [A. Sykes et al., Nucl. Fusion 32, 769 (1994)] spherical tokamak has recently achieved the record value of toroidal beta similar to-30% in a tokamak-like configuration. The improvements that have made these results possible are presented along with a description of the global equilibrium parameters of the discharges. The ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) stability of these discharges is analyzed, and they are found to be in close proximity to both the ballooning limit and the external current driven kink limit, but they are found to be far from the pressure driven external kink Limit. Disruptivity for a range of shots is not correlated with the normalized beta limit, but does correlate well with the empirical high-l(i) disruption limit. The transport properties of these high-beta-equilibria are analyzed and compared to conventional tokamak scaling laws and transport models. The global transport is at least as good as that predicted by the ITER97-ELMy (edge-localized) scaling law. The local ion transport is in good agreement with that predicted by neoclassical models. The electron transport is anomalous, showing rough agreement with the Lackner-Gottardi transport model. (C) 1998 American Institute of Physics.

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页码：1775 / 1783

页数：9

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