Experimental determination of the three components of toroidal momentum transport in the core of a tokamak plasma

C. F.B. Zimmermann; R. M. McDermott; C. Angioni; B. P. Duval; R. Dux; E. Fable; T. Luda; Antti Salmi; U. Stroth; Tuomas Tala; G. Tardini; T. Pütterich; ASDEX Upgrade Team

doi:10.1088/1741-4326/ad0489

Experimental determination of the three components of toroidal momentum transport in the core of a tokamak plasma

C. F.B. Zimmermann^*
, R. M. McDermott
, C. Angioni
, B. P. Duval
, R. Dux
, E. Fable
, T. Luda
, Antti Salmi
, U. Stroth
, Tuomas Tala
, G. Tardini
, T. Pütterich
, ASDEX Upgrade Team

^*Corresponding author for this work

BA4511 Fusion energy

Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik (IPP)
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

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Abstract

A new approach to infer the momentum transport in tokamak core plasmas via perturbation experiments is presented. For the first time, the analysis self-consistently includes all momentum transport components and their time dependencies, which are essential to separate the momentum fluxes and closely match the experiment. The quantitative agreement between the experimentally inferred transport coefficients and the gyrokinetic predictions provides an unprecedented validation. This work shows that the new methodology and gyrokinetic predictions can now be utilized on the route to physics-based prediction of momentum transport in future reactor plasmas.

Original language	English
Article number	124003
Number of pages	7
Journal	Nuclear Fusion
Volume	63
Issue number	12
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/ad0489
Publication status	Published - Dec 2023
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

Funding

The authors would like to sincerely thank Dr Stoltzfus-Dueck for the fruitful discussions. This work has been carried out within the framework of the EUROfusion Consortium, partially funded by the European Union via the Euratom Research and Training Programme (Grant Agreement No. 101052200—EUROfusion). The Swiss contribution to this work has been funded by the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI). Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union, the European Commission or SERI. Neither the European Union nor the European Commission nor SERI can be held responsible for them.

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Keywords

ASDEX Upgrade
intrinsic torque
momentum transport
perturbation experiment
plasma rotation
residual stress
tokamak

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Zimmermann, C. F. B., McDermott, R. M., Angioni, C., Duval, B. P., Dux, R., Fable, E., Luda, T., Salmi, A., Stroth, U., Tala, T., Tardini, G., Pütterich, T., & ASDEX Upgrade Team (2023). Experimental determination of the three components of toroidal momentum transport in the core of a tokamak plasma. Nuclear Fusion, 63(12), Article 124003. https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/ad0489

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