The heat flux patterns measured in low-collisionality DIII-D H-mode plasmas strongly deviate from simultaneously measured CII emission patterns, used as indicator of particle flux, during applied resonant magnetic perturbations. While the CII emission clearly shows typical striations, which are similar to magnetic footprint patterns obtained from vacuum field line tracing, the heat flux is usually dominated by one large peak at the strike point position. The vacuum approximation, which only considers applied magnetic fields and neglects plasma response and plasma effects, cannot explain the shape of the observed heat flux pattern. One possible explanation is the effect of particle drifts. This is included in the field line equations and the results are discussed with reference to the measurement. Electrons and ions show different drift motions at thermal energy levels in a guiding center approximation. While electrons hardly deviate from the field lines, ions can drift several centimetres away from field line flux surfaces. A model is presented in which an ion heat flux, based on the ion drift motion from various kinetic energies as they contribute to a thermal Maxwellian distribution, is calculated. The simulated heat flux is directly compared to measurements with a varying edge safety factor q95. This analysis provides evidence for the dominate effect of high-energy ions in carrying heat from the plasma inside the separatrix to the target. High-energy ions are deposited close to the unperturbed strike line, while low-energy ions can travel into the striated magnetic topology.
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January 14 2014
Heat flux modeling using ion drift effects in DIII-D H-mode plasmas with resonant magnetic perturbations
A. Wingen;
A. Wingen
1
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
2
Institut für Theoretische Physik, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
, D-40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
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O. Schmitz;
O. Schmitz
3
Institut für Energie und Klimaforschung-Plasma Physik
, Forschungszentrum Jülich, 52428 Jülich, Germany
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T. E. Evans;
T. E. Evans
4
General Atomics
, P.O. Box 85608, San Diego, California 92186, USA
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K. H. Spatschek
K. H. Spatschek
2
Institut für Theoretische Physik, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
, D-40225 Düsseldorf, Germany
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Phys. Plasmas 21, 012509 (2014)
Article history
Received:
September 19 2013
Accepted:
December 27 2013
Citation
A. Wingen, O. Schmitz, T. E. Evans, K. H. Spatschek; Heat flux modeling using ion drift effects in DIII-D H-mode plasmas with resonant magnetic perturbations. Phys. Plasmas 1 January 2014; 21 (1): 012509. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4862034
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