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Global scaling of the heat transport in fusion plasmas

  • Sara Moradi
  • , Johan Anderson
  • , Michele Romanelli
  • , Hyun Tae Kim
  • , X. Litaudon
  • , S. Abduallev
  • , M. Abhangi
  • , P. Abreu
  • , M. Afzal
  • , K. M. Aggarwal
  • , T. Ahlgren
  • , J. H. Ahn
  • , Leena Aho-Mantila
  • , N. Aiba
  • , Markus Airila
  • , R. Albanese
  • , V. Aldred
  • , D. Alegre
  • , E. Alessi
  • , P. Aleynikov
  • A. Alfier, A. Alkseev, M. Allinson, B. Alper, E. Alves, G. Ambrosino, R. Ambrosino, L. Amicucci, V. Amosov, E. Andersson Sundén, M. Angelone, M. Anghel, C. Angioni, L. Appel, C. Appelbee, P. Arena, M. Ariola, H. Arnichand, S. Arshad, A. Ash, N. Ashikawa, V. Aslanyan, O. Asunta, Antti Hakola, Seppo Koivuranta, Jari Likonen, Y. Liu, Antti Salmi, Paula Sirén, Tuomas Tala, JET Contributors
    • École Royale Militaire
    • Chalmers University of Technology
    • Culham Science Centre
    • Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH (FZJ)
    • Institute for Plasma Research
    • Universidade de Lisboa
    • Queen's University Belfast
    • University of Helsinki
    • Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (CEA)
    • National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST)
    • University of Naples Federico II
    • National University of Distance Education
    • National Research Council (CNR)
    • ITER Organization
    • Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute
    • Parthenope University of Naples
    • National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA)
    • Troitsk Institute for Innovation and Fusion Research
    • Uppsala University
    • National Institute for Cryogenics and Isotopic Technology
    • Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik (IPP)
    • University of Catania
    • Fusion for Energy (F4E)
    • National Institutes of Natural Sciences - National Institute for Fusion Science
    • MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • Aalto University
    • Institute of Plasma Physics (ASIPP CAS)

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    Abstract

    A global heat flux model based on a fractional derivative of plasma pressure is proposed for the heat transport in fusion plasmas. The degree of the fractional derivative of the heat flux, α, is defined through the power balance analysis of the steady state. The model was used to obtain the experimental values of α for a large database of the Joint European Torus (JET) carbon-wall as well as ITER like-wall plasmas. The fractional degrees of the electron heat flux are found to be α<2, for all the selected pulses in the database, suggesting a deviation from the diffusive paradigm. Moreover, the results show that as the volume integrated input power is increased, the fractional degree of the electron heat flux converges to α∼0.8, indicating a global scaling between the net heating and the pressure profile in the high-power JET plasmas. The model is expected to provide insight into the proper kinetic description for the fusion plasmas and improve the accuracy of the heat transport predictions.
    Original languageEnglish
    Article number013027
    JournalPhysical review research
    Volume2
    Issue number1
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 8 Jan 2020
    MoE publication typeA1 Journal article-refereed

    UN SDGs

    This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

    1. SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
      SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy

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