Simulations of the sawtooth-induced redistribution of fast ions in JET and ITER : [preprint]
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2018
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Yakovenko, Yu.
Lutsenko, V.
Lepiavko, B.
Goloborodko, V.
Kolesnichenko, Ya.
Tishchenko, A.
Kiptily, V.
Sharapov, S.
Giacomelli, L.
Craciunescu, T.
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Results of simulations of the sawtooth-induced redistribution of fast ions in JET and ITER with the code OFSEF are
presented. The dependence of the redistribution on the particle parameters (energy and pitch angle) is studied. The
redistribution of the trapped and marginally passing particles is found to exhibit barrier-like behaviour at the separatrix
between the trapped and passing particles: the particles with high energies cannot pass the radial coordinate corresponding to
the separatrix. The algorithm and structure of the rapid code developed on the basis of the OFSEF calculations are discussed.
Simulations of the sawtooth effect on fusion alpha particles in ITER are carried out; they show that when the shape of the qprofile is non-parabolic (which is expected, for example, in the hybrid mode), the post-crash radial profile of the alpha
particle distribution function can change significantly. Determining the parameters of a sawtooth crash – the sawtooth
mixing radius and the sawtooth crash duration – from observations of the electron cyclotron emission in the equatorial plane
of a tokamak is discussed; examples for JET sawtooth crashes are presented. Experimental observations of the sawtooth
effect on the neutron emission in several recent JET discharges are presented and analysed.
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sawtooth-induced redistribution, fast ions in JET, fast ions in ITER, code OFSEF, particle parameter, article, preprint
Citation
Simulations of the sawtooth-induced redistribution of fast ions in JET and ITER / Yu. V. Yakovenko, V. V. Lutsenko, ... A. I. Tishchenko [et al.] // 27th IAEA Fusion Energy Conference (FEC 2018), 22-27 October 2018, Gandhinagar. - India, 2018. - [8 p.].