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Alfvén Modes
in Tokamaks and ITER
James W. Van Dam
US Burning Plasma Organization&
Institute for Fusion StudiesThe University of Texas at Austin
CMPD-CMSO Winter SchoolJanuary 12, 2008
Shear Alfvén waves in LAPD
(Van Zeeland et al., PRL 2001)
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Outline
• INTRODUCTION: Hannes Alfvén
• ALFVÉN WAVES– In general– In tokamaks
• ITER– Characteristics of burning plasmas– Dynamics of alpha particles– Energetic particles and stability– Nonlinear behavior– Cascade modes– Alfvén mode properties as diagnostics
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INTRODUCTION:HANNES ALFVÉN
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“Father of Plasma Physics”
• Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén– Born May 30, 1908 (Norrköping,
Sweden); died April 2, 1995
• Career at a glance:– Professor of electromagnetic
theory at Royal Institute ofTechnology, Stockholm (1940)
– Professor of electrical engineeringat UCSD (1967-1973/1988)
– Nobel Prize (1970) for MHD workand contributions in foundingplasma physics
Hannes Alfvén received the Nobel Prizein Physics in 1970 from the SwedishKing Gustavus Adolphus VI
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Huge Influence• Contributions to plasma physics
– Existence of electromagnetic-hydromagnetic (“Alfvén”) waves (1942)
– Concepts of guiding center approximation, first adiabatic invariant, frozen-in flux
– Acceleration of cosmic rays (--> Fermi acceleration)
– Field-aligned electric currents in the aurora (double layer)
– Stability of Earth-circulating energetic particles (--> Van Allen belts)
– Effect of magnetic storms on Earth’s magnetic field
– Alfvén critical-velocity ionization mechanism
– Formation of comet tails
– Plasma cosmology (Alfvén-Klein model)
– Books: Cosmical Electrodynamics (1950), On the Origin of the Solar System (1954),Worlds-Antiworlds (1966), Cosmic Plasma (1981)
• Wide-spread name:– Alfvén wave, Alfvén layer, Alfvén critical point, Alfvén radii, Alfvén distances, Alfvén
resonance, …
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Factoids
• His youthful involvement in a radio club at school later led (heclaimed) to his PhD thesis on “Ultra-Short Electromagnetic Waves”
• He had difficulty publishing in standard astrophysical journals (due todisputes with Sydney Chapman): Fermi “Of course” (1948)
• He considered himself an electrical engineer more than a physicist
• He distrusted computers
• The asteroid “1778 Alfvén” was named in his honor
• He was active in international disarmament movements
• The music composer Hugo Alfvén was his uncle
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ALFVÉN WAVES:
• IN GENERAL
• IN TOKAMAKS
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Alfvén Waves
• Propagates along B0
• Oscillation resembles a pluckedviolin string (i.e., driven by B0-linetension)
B0
k
E||
BJ
E
Shear Alfvén (k||B0, B|| 0)
E||
E , J
B|| k
B0
Compressional Alfvén (k B0, B 0)
B
B0
• Propagates across B0
• Compression-rarefaction wave (i.e.,driven by magnetic/plasma pressure)
• Higher frequency, since k|| << k
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Shear Alfvén Continuum
• Ideal-MHD eigenmode equation (large-aspect-ratio geometry):
...( )d r
4
dr4+
d
dr
2 k 2vA2
2 k 2 + k 2( )vA2
B2
r
d
drr r( ) + 2 k 2vA
2( ) + ... r = 0
• Coefficient of d2r/dr 2 vanishes when 2 = k||
2 vA2 (shear Alfvén continuum)
– The mode structure is singular when the frequency satisfies the inequalityMin (k||
2 vA2) 2 Max (k||
2 vA2)
– Alfvén velocity is a function of radius in an inhomogeneous plasma:
vA (r) =B0 (r)
4 n0 (r)Mi
||||
||
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Kinetic Alfvén Wave
• If electron parallel dynamics and ion FLR effects are included, a non-singular solution can be obtained: “Kinetic Alfvén Wave”– However, KAW experiences strong bulk plasma Landau damping, due to its
short wavelength– Hence, the global-type Alfvén waves (GAE and TAE) are of more interest, since
they have A(r)
• Solution is singular at position(r1) of local Alfvén resonancewhere = A(r)
– Resonant absorption of waveenergy (“continuum damping”)
A (r) = k vA (r)1
n0 (r)||
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Global Alfvén Eigenmode
• GAE is a radially extended,regular, spatially non-resonantdiscrete Alfvén eigenmode– Requires that the current
profile be such that the Alfvéncontinuum have an off-axisminimum (k|| 0 , thus nm<0):
– Frequency lies just below thelower edge of the continuum
– Sidebands suffer continuumdamping
– Experiments tried to use GAEfor “global” tokamak plasmaheating
d
dr A (r1) = 0; i.e.,1
k
dk
dr=
1
vA
dvA
dr
Er ,(m,n) exp(im in )
||
||
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k (r) =1
R
m
q(r)n
Alfvén Waves in Toroidal Geometry• “Gaps” occur in Alfvén continuum in
toroidal geometry when• In a torus, wave solutions are
quantized poloidally & toroidally:
(r, , ,t) exp( i t) m (r)m
exp(im in )
• Parallel wave number k|| determined byB-line twist q(r)= rBT/RBp (“safetyfactor”):
= k m (r)vA (r) = k m+1(r)vA (r)
• Discrete eigenmodes exist within gapsdue to equilibrium poloidal dependence:e.g., B0 1 - (r/R) cos
||
|| ||
GAETAE
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Toroidal AlfvénEigenmode
• TAE is a discrete, radially extended,regular (non-resonant) eigenmode– Frequency lies in “gap” of width ~r/R
<<1 at q=(m+1/2)/n, formed bytoroidicity-induced coupling (m±1)
– Analogy to band gap theory in solid-state crystals (Mathieu equation, Blochfunctions): “fiber glass wave guide”
• Similarly there exist:– Ellipticity-induced Alfvén eigenmode
(EAE): m±2– Triangularity-induced Alfvén
eigenmode (NAE): m±3
TAEm,m+1
=n
2m +1
vA
R A (r)
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Core-Localized TAE
• At low shear (near magnetic axis), theTAE moves near the bottom of the gap– Theoretical explanation requires
retaining higher-order finite aspect ratioeffects
– In addition, a second core-localized TAEappears at the top of the gap
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Zoology of *AE Modes• Fast particles can destabilize a large
variety of Alfvén modes (*AE)– e.g., Toroidal Alfvén Eigenmode (TAE)
• Mode identification is robust:– Frequency, mode structure, polarization
• Threshold is determined by balance of:– Growth rate (reliably calculate)– Damping rate (calculation is very
sensitive to parameters, profiles, lengthscales—but can measure withactive/passive antennas)
• Also, Energetic Particle Modes– Exist only in presence of EP’s
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ITER:CHARACTERISTICS OF BURNING PLASMAS
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Focus on Magnetic Confinement
National Ignition Facility
ITER
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What is a “Burning” Plasma?• “Burning” plasma = dominantly self-heated by fusion products (e.g., alpha particles)
created by thermonuclear reactions in the plasma
• Reactions of interest for laboratory fusion power:
Solid
Plasma
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D-T Fusion
• The “easiest” fusion reaction useshydrogen isotopes: deuterium (D)and tritium (T)
Nuclear cross sections
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Better Definition of “Burning”
Breakeven Q = 1 f = 17%
Burning Q = 5 f = 50%
plasma Q = 10 (ITER) f = 60%
regime Q = 20 f = 80%
Q = (ignition) f = 100%
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New Burning Plasma Challenges
Uniquely BP issues
• Alpha particles
– Large population of supra-thermal ions
• Self-heating
– “Autonomous” system (self-organized profiles)
– Thermal stability
Reactor-scale BP issues
• Scaling with size & B field
• High performance
– Operational limits, heat flux onPFCs
• Nuclear environment
– Radiation, tritium retention,dust, tritium breeding
Integration of nonlinearly coupled elements
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DYNAMICS OF ALPHA PARTICLES
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Energetic Particles
• In addition to thermal ions and electrons, plasmas often contain a supra-thermal species = “energetic particles” (or “fast particles,” “hot particles”)– Highly energetic (Tf >> Ti)– Low density (nf << ni), but comparable pressure (nfTf niTi)
• Energetic particles can be created from various sources:– Externally: ion/electron cyclotron heating or neutral beam injection —> high-
energy “tails” of ions and electrons– Internally: fusion reaction alpha particles; runaway electrons
• The plasma physics of energetic particles is of interest to:– Laboratory fusion plasmas (alphas provide self-heating to sustain ignition)– Space and astrophysical plasmas (e.g., proton ring in Earth’s magnetosphere)– High-energy-physics accelerators (collective effects)
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• Other energetic particles:
– Supra-thermal ions from NBI and ICRH• Can simulate particle effects without reactivity (although NBI/ICRH ions are
anisotropic in pitch angle, whereas alphas are isotropic)
• Also present in burning plasmas with auxiliary heating
– Run-away electrons associated with disruptions
Alpha Particle Characteristics
• Alpha particles:
– High energy: T ,birthDT = 3.5 MeV
– Not “frozen” to B-field lines(require kinetic description)
– Low density (n < ni,e), butcomparable pressure (p ~ pi,e)
– Non-Maxwellian “slowing down”distribution
– Centrally peaked profile
p p1
a /2
• Plasma ions and electrons:
– Ti,e ~ 10-20 keV
– “Frozen-in” behavior to lowestorder (MHD description)
– Thermodynamic equilibrium(Maxwellian distribution)
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Birth, Life, & Death of Particles• DT alphas are born in peaked
distribution at 3.5 MeV at rate na/ t= nDnT< v>
– During time s, they are slowed down bycollisions with electrons to smootherdistribution at ~ 1 MeV
– After time M, they thermalize againstboth electrons and ions to the plasmatemperature (Te ~ Ti ~ 10 keV)
– Alphas are confined for time . In steady-state there are two alpha populations:slowing-down ’s (ns) and coolMaxwellian ’s (nM)
• Typically ~ 10 M ~ 103 s : hence ’shave time to thermalize
– Since ns / n ~ s / ~ 10-3, then nM ~ n~ ne (for reactors); hence “ash” (slow ’s)is a problem in reactors, because it will“poison” the plasma
Birth velocity:
v 0D T
= 1.3 109 cm / s
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Slowing-down Distribution• The classical steady-state “slowing
down” distribution (isotropic) is
Fs (r,v) =S(r) s 4 (v3
+ vc3), v < v 0
0, v > v 0
vc = ve
3 me
4mp ln e
niZi2 ln i
Ainei
1 3
4.6 108 cm / s
s =3mem ve
3
16 Z 2e4ne ln e
0.37sec
v 0D T
= 1.3 109 cm / s
Slowing-down time:
Birth velocity:Critical velocity (balance ion/electron friction):
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Temperature Dependence
• Alpha parameters are determined by theplasma temperature– For ~10 keV plasma, ’s deposit their
energy into thermal electrons, with slowing-down time s Te
3/2 / ne
– Since the alpha source ~ ne2 < v>, we have
n /ne ~ Te3/2 < v> Te
3/2 Ti2
– For an equal-temperature Maxwellianplasma, the ratios n /ne and / plasma areunique functions of temperature Te.
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Significance for ITER
• Approximately 200-600 MW of alpha heating needed to sustain ignition– Huge amount of power to handle with no direct external control
• Experimental relevance of alphaloss:– Damage to first wall and divertor
plate structure (wall loading)– Impurity influx– Reduced efficiency of current
drive or heating– Operational control problems– Quenching of ignition ( ash)
• Understanding of alpha physics isneeded to:– Assure good alpha confinement– Optimize alpha heating efficiency– Avoid alpha-driven collective
instabilities (*AE modes)
• Alpha dynamics integrated withoverall plasma behavior– Macro-stability, transport,
heating, edge, …
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Parameter Comparison
• Differences for fast (“f”) ion physics in ITER:
– Orbit size /a in ITER is much smaller– Most of the other parameters (especially dimensionless) are comparable– No external control of alphas, in contrast to NBI and ICRH fast ions
Progress in ITER Physics Basis (2007)
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ALPHA PARTICLES & STABILITY
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Kinetic Resonance & Stability
• Typically: d << || << c
• Most MHD modes are low frequency( << c)– Hence magnetic moment =mv 2/2
is an adiabatic invariant
• Thermal ions/electrons do not drift across magnetic field ( d << ~ ||)– “Frozen in” with field lines– If d << << ||, Kruskal-Oberman energy principle is valid (2nd adiabatic inv.)
• Energetic particles drift rapidly across magnetic field ( d ~ << ||)– No longer “frozen in” with the field, since d <Efast>– If << d << ||, Low Frequency energy principle is valid (3rd adiabatic
invariant)
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Fishbone Instability
Off-resonant stabilization of fishbone( d
fast >> ): “monster sawtooth”
Resonant destabilization of n=m=1 internalkink ( d
fast = ): “fishbone instability”
Nonlinear kinetic/fluid behavior of sawteeth is a challenging problem
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TAE Instability
• Theoretical growth rate:
0
9
4*
0
1
2F e
vA
ve
• Instability requires:– Wave-particle kinetic
resonance (v vA)– Inverse damping ( > 0)– Growth overcomes damping
( / e > “small number” --for electron Landaudamping; other dampingmechanisms also important)
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TAE Observation
• Frequency scaled linearly with B
• Fluctuation amplitude increased with beam power
• Energetic beam ions were ejected:X-rays dropped 7% in periodic bursts
• A later experiment found intense fastion fluxes that damaged vacuum vessel(ripple trapping caused by TAEresonance)
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ITER Stability–1
• ITER will operate with a large population of super-Alfvénic energetic particles– New small-wavelength ( *) regime implies presence of many modes
– NSTX (low-B, low-shear) is an excellent laboratory for fast particle studies
*-1 =
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ITER Stability–2
• ITER will have 1 MeV neutralbeams for current drive etc.– Theory predicts that these NB
energetic ions can drive TAEinstability, comparable to alphaparticles
– Including the NB ion drive changesthe stability prediction for ITER (at20 keV) from marginality todefinite instability
– A model quasi-linear calculationpredicts negligible to modest losses
*-1 =
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NONLINEAR ALFVÉN MODES
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TAE Saturation
• Characteristic time scales:– Bounce frequency of
resonant particles b E1/2
– Linear growth rate L
– Background damping rate d
– Reconstitution rate forresonant particles (inverteddistribution)
• Typically: L d
• Pulsation scenario:– Waves are unstable until the resonant
particle distribution function flattens;instability saturates when b ~ L
– Excited wave damps at rate d << L,while distribution remains flat
– The source restores the distributionfunction, bringing new free energy into theresonant region
– The cycle repeats
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Avalanches
• Overlapping resonances• Sandpile scenario
• Mode overlap can lead to a rapid transition fromlow-level benign oscillation, to larger amplitudeoscillations accompanied by rapid diffusion ofenergetic particles over large area of the plasma
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NL Behavior
• Near marginal stability, differenttypes of nonlinear behavior occur,depending on relative size ofparameters L, d, b, and ,
– Steady-state saturation (1), when > L - d
– Explosive nonlinear regime (8),with frequency chirping
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Pitchfork Modes• Saturated steady-state solution is a fixed
point of the system dynamics; the path tochaos occurs through nonlinear bifurcationsof this initially stable fixed point.
• Frequency splitting corresponds tosideband formation
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Holes & Clumps
• Frequency sweeping arises fromBGK-like phase space structuresthat grow from unstable kineticresonances
t1/2
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TAE Bursts–1
Counter-injected ionCo-injected ion
Limiter
Plasma edge
• NL simulations can explainTAE bursts and fast ionlosses observed in TFTR
• Co-injected particles shift outward andcan leave plasma
• Counter-injected particles immediately hitinner limiter
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TAE Bursts–2
• Counter-injected beams are confinedonly near the magnetic axis
• Co-injected beams are confined efficiently– Central pressure gradient collapses
periodically at criticality– Large pressure gradient maintained at edge
stored beam energywith TAE turbulence
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CASCADE MODES
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Alfvén Cascades–1
• Occur in reversed shear plasma atzero-shear (q’=0) location q(r)=q0
• Frequency initially below TAEgap and sweeps upward (usuallynever downward) as safety factordecreases in time
• Frequency signals are quasi-periodic for a large number of n-values (typically, n=1–6)
• Higher-n modes recur morefrequently and have more rapidfrequency sweeping ( / t n)
• Sometimes the frequency mergesinto the TAE gap
• Modes are suppressed at lowfrequencies
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Alfvén Cascades–2
• Cascade mode is associated with theextremum of the Alfvén continuum atshear reversal qmin
• As qmin(t) evolves in time due tochanges in the current, the AlfvénCascade frequency AC varies:
AC (t)m
qmin (t)n
vA (t)
R+
d
dt AC (t) = mvA
R
d
dtqmin
1 (t)
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Alfvén Cascades–3• Cascade explained by single-mode theory expanded near shear reversal surface:
• Frequency is above the Alfvén continuumfrequency if m-nq>0 and only shifts upward asq0(t) decreases
• Toroidal mode coupling increases near the TAEfrequency, and causes the Cascade mode tomerge into the TAE band
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r 2
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Grand Cascades• Internal transport barrier (ITB) triggering event
– “Grand Cascade” (many simultaneous n-modes) occurrence is coincident with ITBformation (when qmin passes through integer value)
– Being used on JET as a diagnostic to monitor qmin
– Can create ITB by application of main heating shortly before a Grand Cascade isknown to occur
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Frequency Roll-Over• In rare events, the Cascade frequency
downshifts as qmin decreases, with aroll-over that suggests a continuumlower boundary– Theory finds plasma compressibility
induced by geodesic curvature leads toa minimum Cascade frequency at
= 21/2 cs/R. For qmin 2, thisfrequency is above acoustic resonance( = cs/qminR); hence fluid treatment isvalid at lowest order.
– This also explains why Cascade modesbegin at finite frequency.
– Finite beta continuum sets theminimum frequency for Cascades.
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WAVE PROPERTIES AS DIAGNOSTICS
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Using Waves as Diagnostics-1
“…generating and observing these [hydromagnetic] waves at low power maybe a useful diagnostic technique for determining plasma characteristics whichare important parameters of these waves such as magnetic field strength, plasmadensity and distribution function, plasma temperature and composition, and thestate of ionization of the plasma….”
(T. Stix, 1958)
“MHD spectroscopy”
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Using Waves as Diagnostics-2
• Determine internal fields fromfrequency sweeping
• Sweep rate = const. b3/2 t1/2, where
b Br1/2
• Processing the observed frequencysweep gives Bmax = 2 10-4 T,compared to Mirnov coil measurementBmax = 5 10-4 T
TAEs in MAST
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Using Waves as Diagnostics-3
• Temperature inferred from low-frequencysuppression of Cascade modes– Geodesic deformation of Alfvén continuum
determines the minimum frequency:
– This can be inverted for temperature:
min2 2cs
2
R21+
7
4
Ti
Te
Te[eV ] 1+7
4
Ti
Te
= 3.77 fmin kHz[ ]( )2
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Using Waves as Diagnostics-4
Phase contrast imaging(internal)
Magnetic coils(external)
• Determine internal fields from 2nd harmonic Alfvén Cascade perturbed density– Ratio of the measured fundamental and second harmonic PCI signals provides
independent information about internal amplitudes of perturbed B field
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Some Issues Outstanding
• Develop a unified kinetic/fluid description of resonant interactions amongenergetic particles, waves, and thermal plasma– Linear responses from kinetic and fluid resonances are in balance at instability
threshold, but the nonlinear responses can differ significantly. Which nonlinearresponse is dominant? Is it stabilizing or destabilizing?
– Fishbone is a challenging example of coupled kinetic and fluid resonances
• Develop nonlinear theory for Cascade mode saturation
• Develop a code that can accurately simulate resonant wave-particle interactionswith many modes, without phase averaging, and without direct wave-wavecouplings
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Recent References• ITER Physics Basis Document, Chap. 5 “Energetic Particles,” Nucl Fusion 29, 3471
(1999); Progress in the ITER Physics Basis, Nucl Fusion 47, 1-414 (2007)
• “The Scientific Challenge of Burning Plasmas”: http://burningplasma.org/reference.html
• U.S. Burning Plasma Workshop (Oak Ridge, TN, 2005):www.burningplasma.org/WS_05/html
– Energetic particle physics plenary talk, break-out group presentations, and summary
• 9th IAEA Technical Meeting on Energetic Particles in Magnetic Confinement Systems(Takayama, Japan, 2005): http://htpp.lhd.nifs.ac.jp/IAEATM-EP2005/index.html
• Joint Transport Task Force/US-Japan JIFT Workshop on Energetic Particles (Napa, CA,2005): www.mfescience.org/TTF2005/
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Exercise #1
• For the Toroidal Alfvén Eigenmode,calculate the q-value where the gap islocated and estimate the typical TAEmode frequency.– Repeat this exercise for the Ellipticity-
and Triangularity-induced AlfvénEigenmodes
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Exercise #2
• Consider a simple model for the fishbone cycle [R. White]. Assume the trapped fast ionsare deposited at rate S until the threshold beta c is reached. Model the losses as a rigiddisplacement of the trapped particles toward the wall. Equations for the trapped particlebeta and the mode amplitude A are:
– Show that the solution of these equations will be cyclic. [Hint: Approximately plot and A asfunctions of time. Then, from the equations, construct a function F( ,A) that satisfies F/ t = 0.Approximately plot the contours F = constant in -A phase space. Show that F is minimum when
= c and A=S/ c.]
• If the losses are diffusive, rather than rigid, then d /dt = S - A . In this case, show thatF/ t 0, with F/ t =0 only at = c, and that the solution spirals toward this fixed point.
d
dt= S A c ,
dA
dt= 0
c
1 A