Analysis of edge transport in L-mode negative triangularity TCV discharges

the TCV Team; EUROFusion MST Team

doi:10.1016/j.nme.2023.101386

Analysis of edge transport in L-mode negative triangularity TCV discharges

the TCV Team
, EUROFusion MST Team

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Abstract

One of the major problems for future tokamak devices are ELMs (Edge Localized Modes) as they can lead to large, uncontrolled heat fluxes at the machine targets. For this reason, different techniques and alternative magnetic configurations are under study to mitigate or avoid these phenomena. One of the most promising among these studies is the Negative Triangularity (NT) configuration, which exhibits a global confinement comparable with H-Mode operation and, staying in L-mode, could enable an easier power exhaust dissipation due to a possible bigger heat flux decay length with respect to the conventional Positive triangularity (PT) H-mode. In this work, the fluid code SOLEDGE2D-EIRENE is used to study edge transport. Studies are made on discharges performed in the TCV device (Tokamak à configuration variable), which can create a variety of different plasma geometries thanks to 16 independently powered poloidal field coils and its open vacuum vessel. In order to understand if and how power and particle exhaust in NT differs with respect to those of the PT shape, four discharges in single null magnetic divertor configuration with fixed lower triangularity (δ_bot = +0.5) but with different upper triangularity (from δ_up = −0.28 to δ_up = +0.45) have been modelled. All of them are ohmically heated, L-mode deuterium plasmas, and in the high recycling regime. Moreover, these discharges were previously used in [4] to measure the heat flux decay length by IRT (Infrared Thermography), allowing us to make comparisons with modelling results.

Original language	English
Article number	101386
Journal	Nuclear Materials and Energy
Volume	34
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nme.2023.101386
State	Published - Mar 2023
Externally published	Yes

Funding

This work has been carried out within the framework of the EUROfusion Consortium, funded by the European Union via the Euratom Research and Training Programme (Grant Agreement No 101052200 – EUROfusion). Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Commission. Neither the European Union nor the European Commission can be held responsible for them. This work was supported in part by the Swiss National Science Foundation. This work was performed with MARCONI-FUSION HPC. The required computational resources were allocated under the project EMCAD and TSVV2.

Keywords

Edge plasma transport
Negative triangularity
Power exhaust
SOLEDGE2D-EIRENE
TCV

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