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Non-disruptive error field identification based on magnetic island healing

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A technique to identify intrinsic error fields (EFs) in tokamaks with minimized risk of disruption is demonstrated on the DIII-D tokamak. The method extends the conventional driven magnetic island 'compass scan' approach by modifying asynchronous control waveforms to enable prompt healing of the island instability. Healing of the island is achieved by reducing the imposed non-axisymmetric coil current and raising the density (here via gas fueling). The method is also shown to support multiple island threshold measurements per pulse, thus reducing the number of dedicated pulses necessary to conduct an EF identification. Non-linear modeling with the TM1 code reproduces the experimental results and approximately recovers the critical density required for island healing. Island healing is explained in the non-linear modeling by an increase in the viscous coupling between the static island and the nearby flowing plasma, thus healing the island as it accelerates into the plasma frame. Due to both simplicity and risk minimization, this technique is suitable for plasma-based EF identification in the early commissioning stages of future disruption-averse tokamaks such as ITER and SPARC.

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C. Paz-Soldan、Q. Hu、N.C. Logan、J.-K. Park

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Department of Applied Physics & Applied Mathematics, Columbia University, New York, New York 10027, United States of America

Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton, New Jersey 08540, United States of America

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, United States of America

2022

10.1088/1741-4326/ac9005

Nuclear fusion

Nuclear fusion

SCI
ISSN：0029-5515
年,卷(期)：2022.62(12)
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