Evidence for separatrix formation and sustainment with steady inductive helicity injection

The first sustainment of toroidal plasma current of 50 kA at up to 3 times the injected currents, added in quadrature, using steady inductive helicity injection is described. Separatrix currents-currents not linking the helicity injectors-are sustained up to 40 kA. Decreases in the n=1 toroidal mode of the poloidal magnetic field at higher current amplifications indicate more quiescent, direct toroidal current drive. Results are achieved in HIT-SI (with a spheromak of major radius 0.3 m) during deuterium operations immediately after helium operation. These results represent a breakthrough in the development of this new current drive method for magnetic confinement fusion.     

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在EAST上通过分析剩余环电压与低杂波功率之间的关系,计算得到了低杂波电流驱动效率。采用归一化功率,即功率对等离子体电流、电子密度、等离子体大半径以及有效电荷数归一化,将所有数据绘制在同一曲线中,这样可以得到不同等离子体参数下的低杂波电流驱动效率。实验得到低杂波电流驱动效率η0=(0.5~1.3)×1019 A.m-2.W-1,在等离子体电流Ip=277kA、低杂波功率PLH=681kW条件下,实验得到长达3s的低杂波全波驱动。     

EAST装置低杂波电流驱动效率分析

在EAST上通过分析剩余环电压与低杂波功率之间的关系,计算得到了低杂波电流驱动效率。采用归一化功率,即功率对等离子体电流、电子密度、等离子体大半径以及有效电荷数归一化,将所有数据绘制在同一曲线中,这样可以得到不同等离子体参数下的低杂波电流驱动效率。实验得到低杂波电流驱动效率η₀=(0.5~1.3)×10¹⁹ A.m^-2.W^-1,在等离子体电流I_p=277kA、低杂波功率P_LH=681kW条件下,实验得到长达3s的低杂波全波驱动。     

Demonstration of plasma startup by coaxial helicity injection

The first successful results on the transfer of a coaxial helicity injection (CHI) produced discharge to inductive operation are reported. CHI-assisted plasma startup is more robust than inductive only operation. After hand off for inductive operation, the initial 90 kA of CHI-produced current drops to 40 kA, then ramps up to 170 kA, using only 30 mV s, more than 30% higher than that produced by induction alone. These significant performance enhancing results were obtained on the HIT-II spherical torus experiment (major/minor radius of 0.3/0.2 m).     

低混杂波高N‖分量对EAST等离子体电流驱动的影响

EAST等离子体高约束模运行条件下，在等离子体边缘区域观测到明显的等离子体电流带.在EAST托卡马克装置非圆截面平衡位形下，使用射线追踪方法研究低混杂波高平行折射率N_‖分量对电流驱动的影响.结果表明：当-8≤N_‖≤-6时，平行折射率分量能够在小半径（0.7 < r/a < 1）区域驱动kA量级的等离子体电流.对于具有台基区、等离子体边缘温度更高的电子温度剖面，驱动电流的位置r/a>0.9.低混杂波朗道阻尼的理论分析与数值模拟结果一致.另外，高N_‖低混杂波在等离子体边缘的功率沉积和电流驱动与电子温度分布和发射谱分布相关.     

捕获电子对低杂波与电子回旋波的协同效应的影响

电子回旋波和低杂波的协同效应可有效地提高两只波的电流驱动效率.本文数值研究了捕获电子效应对电子回旋波和低杂波协同的影响.结果显示,随着捕获角的增大,双波协同驱动电流会减小,且协同因子也会明显减小,即捕获角对两只波协同驱动流的影响要比其对单独驱动电流的影响更加敏感.通过加宽低杂波共振区可减弱电子回旋波电流驱动对捕获角的依赖,同时发现随着电子回旋波功率的增加,捕获角对电子回旋波电流驱动的影响也会变小.     

磁螺度(helicity)注入电流驱动实验的平衡反演

磁螺度注入是一种国际上正处于探索性研究阶段的极富吸收力的电汉驱动方案,尤其对于球环堆芯更具有至和关重要的意义。对磁螺度注入电流驱动实验进行平衡反演工作,将实验数据进行理论分析研究,拟合所有的测量数据以确立实际的等离子体位形,平衡的磁拓扑结构以及环向电流的空间分布,从而确定闭合橛面区的驱动电流大小以及等离子体的性质,计算结果表明等离子体具有托卡马克型ｑ分布,环向电汉分布呈中空形,磁面结构为有三角形变     

单丝Z箍缩的一维单温辐射磁流体力学计算

 介绍在正弦电流波形下铝丝的内爆动力学过程的数值模拟计算，计算采用一维单温辐射磁流体力学模型，能流中除了常规热传导外，也包括黑体辐射流项，以考虑辐射对内爆动力学过程的影响。计算了用于箍缩预脉冲的低电流（幅值10～50 kA）和较高电流（幅值400 kA）情况下单丝的内爆结果。     

Quasisteady high-confinement reversed shear plasma with large bootstrap current fraction under full noninductive current drive condition in JT-60U

A quasisteady reversed shear plasma with a large bootstrap current fraction ( approximately 80%) has been obtained for the first time in the JT-60U tokamak. The shrinkage of reversed shear region was suppressed by the bootstrap current peaked at the internal transport barrier (ITB) layer and the ITBs at a large radius were sustained, which, by combination with an H-mode edge pedestal, resulted in a high confinement or 2.2 times the H-mode scaling for 6 times energy confinement time or 2.7 s. Furthermore, a full noninductive current drive was obtained by the bootstrap current and the beam driven current.     

A model for a uniform steady-state vacuum arc with a hot anode

A model is formulated and evaluated for a Uniform electrical discharge sustained in vapor evaporated from an arc-heated anode. The plasma potential is positive with respect to both the cathode and anode. For a Cu anode, the anodic vapor dominates the plasma for current densities exceeding 8 kA/m². The anode heating potential is approximately 6.5 V, and the dominant cooling mechanism is evaporation for current densities exceeding 20 kA/m². Over the range 10 to 10000 kA/m², the electron density increases from 8×10¹⁷ to 5×10²³ m^-3, while the ionization fraction rises from 0.3% to 4%. At the lower end of this current range the electrical resistivity of 4 mΩ-m is determined primarily by electron-neutral collisions, while with increasing current the resistivity decreases to 0.7 mΩ-m, with electron-ion collisions contributing an equal share. This hot-anode vacuum arc may have potential for industrial application as a macroparticle-free high-deposition-rate coating source     

CT-6托卡马克研究(Ⅰ)——实验装置的研制和调试

托卡马克是一种产生高温环形等离子体的聚变实验装置,也是一类复杂的现代化的电物理装备。CT-6是我国首先投入运行的小型托卡马克装置,其主要参数为:大半径45cm;小半径9.2cm;环向磁场2TL;等离子电流30kA;经过调试阶段,达到了预期目标,产生了平衡、稳定的电子温度为250eV左右的环形高温等离子体。CT-6由电磁系统(包括环向场、涡旋场、平衡场)、超高真空系统(包括环形真空室和抽气机组)、电源控制系统和诊断测量系统等部份组成,它是由中国科学院物理研究所、电工研究所及其他许多单位协作研制成功的。本文描述CT-6装置的设计、结构、工程研制和调试过程,以及有关的试验结果。 关键词：     

Analytic description of tokamak equilibrium sustained by high fraction bootstrap current

By using an expansion technique based on the tokamak ordering, the Grad－Shafranov equation is analytically solved for tokamak equilibrium sustained by a full bootstrap current. This approximate approach is suitable for equilibria with non-circular cross-sections of modest ellipse and triangular deformations. As an input parameter set, the plasma pressure profile and the electron and the ion temperature profiles can be selected as arbitrary functions of the averaged minor radius. Equilibrium properties of this plasma are discussed.     

Time-Resolved Laser Doppler Measurements in the Underexpanded Jet of a Model Gas-Blast Circuit Breaker under Arcing Conditions

A differential laser Doppler system has been used in conjunction with a self-triggered oscillographic raster display system for measuring particle concentrations and flow velocities in a model gas-blast circuit breaker. The flow velocities have been correlated with particle size to enable extrapolation to be made to determine the true plasma flow velocity. The results have been deconvoluted to take account of lateral movements of the arc column. The measurements have been taken with air as the host arcing medium and a flow through a 25-mm-diameter orifice sustained by an upstream pressure of about 7 bar (downstream pressure 1 bar). The arc was sustained by sinusoidal cuffents of peak values 3 and 8 kA and a frequency of 85 Hz. These two currents corresponded to conditions when the model circuit breaker successfully and unsuccessfully interrupted the arc-sustaining current, respectively. The results show that in the case of the 8-kA arc, the flow pattern is severely distorted from that under nonarcing conditions, suggesting that this is a contributory reason for the poorer perfonnance of the model circuit breaker at this higher current level.     

对超热电子诱生的磁场分布的估算

利用简化模型估算了电荷分离场及由超热电子逃逸在等离子体表面产生的自生磁场的大小和空间分布.受电荷分离场的影响以及超热电子逃逸数的限制,超热电子产生的环形磁场主要分布于等离子体表面附近的焦斑半径内,仅当超热电子束流很强时(在1μm半径截面内达到kA量级),环形磁场才可以达到10²T量级.一般情况下,由超热电子产生的磁场则极小 关键词： 磁场 超热电子     

托卡马克中等离子体柱的位移稳定性

本文考虑托卡马克中纵场的作用以及等离子体柱和与之有互感的外迴路的相互作用,在圆截面,瘦环假设下,得到了自由运动时相对于沿水平方向、垂直方向的位移,以及小半径变化的一般稳定条件。由于强纵场的影响,一般来说,等离子体柱的小半径总是随着大半径的变化而改变,以维持通过等离子体角向电流迴路的磁通不变。对于这种扰动,当考虑到外迴路电流变化以后,稳定区域超过公式0关键词：     

Reaching high poloidal beta at Greenwald density with internal transport barrier close to full noninductive current drive

In the ASDEX Upgrade tokamak, high poloidal beta up to beta(pol) = 3 at the Greenwald density with H-mode confinement has been reached. Because of the high beta, the plasma current is driven almost fully noninductively, consisting of 51% bootstrap and 43% neutral beam driven current. To reach these conditions the discharge is operated at low plasma current ( I(P) = 400 kA) and high neutral beam heating power ( P(NBI) = 10 MW). The discharge combines an edge (H mode) and internal transport barrier at high densities without confinement-limiting MHD activities. The extrapolation to higher plasma currents may offer a promising way for an advanced scenario based fusion reactor.     

A CONCEPT FOR NEXT STEP ADVANCED TOKAMAK FUSION DEVICE

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Study of a railgun plasma armature

An experimental and theoretical study of a railgun plasma is presented. The experimental results have been obtained by recording the voltage and current variations as well as the spectral emission of the plasma. The gas pressure, helium, or air in contact with the exploding foil has been varied from 0.1 to 2 MPa. The apparatus consisted of a test chamber simulating a railgun facility. To complete the study, some measurements of the plasma characteristics in the 500-kJ EMA 1 railgun system have been recorded. It is shown that the resistance of the plasma, which is 15 mΩ at 10 kA, decreases to 0.2 mΩ at 500 kA. These results indicate the effect of the energy flow to the walls and that of the ionization potential of the gas in contact with the exploding foil at lower currents     

The Local Electrical Properties of Gas Blast Arcs near Current Zero

Results are reported of experiments performed on a model air-blast circuit breaker to determine the distribution of voltage along the axis of the arc gap during the current zero period, following half sinusoidal current pulses of frequency 85 Hz. The air-blast was sustained by a reservoir pressure of 6.89 × 105 N/m2. Measurements were made following peak currents of 3 and 8 kA, with copper and carbon upstream cathodes, different separations of upstream cathode from nozzle inlet and different conditions downstream of the nozzle throat. The results have enabled the conductance decays at various axial positions to be determined and these have been related to the improved circuit breaking performance observed by other authors when the nozzle and arc gap geometries are optimized. Although a detailed theoretical analysis awaits the measurement of other fundamental plasma properties, an approximate evaluation of the role played by various basic processes has been made.