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Preliminary Investigations of Plasma Reconstructions in
Vacuum
Art BrooksDon MonticelloWayne Reiersen
NCSX SWG MeetingPPPLJune 17, 1999
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Topics
• Reconstruction in vacuum using ref. coil currents– Fixed boundary VMEC results– Fixed boundary PIES using Bn=0 BC– Free boundary PIES using reference coil currents– Current density impacts
• Impacts of changing Bz and dBz/dr• Resonant surfaces in the plasma
– What harmonics are present?– Analytic predictions– Results of early efforts to suppress resonant
harmonics– Sources of resonant harmonics– Prospects for high beta, high current reconstructions
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Fixed boundary VMEC calculations
• Iota increases from 0.033 on axis to 0.288
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Fixed boundary PIES results• Few good surfaces outside of 3/19 island chain (iota=0.158)
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Free boundary reconstruction
• Used PIES• Coils and currents generated by AB using
NESCOIL• 15 saddle coils per half period• 8 up-down symmetric pairs of PF coils• 21 TF coils
• Iota(0) is .042 (instead of .033)• Large stochastic region outside of 3/19 island
chain (iota=.158)• Approximately half the volume is lost• Qualitatively similar to fixed boundary results
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Free boundary PIES results
Fixed Boundary Free Boundary
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Current density goes up for critical coils
Saddle coil Length
High beta, high Ip current
Zero beta, zero Ip current Ratio
1 18.51 1.93E-02 2.31E-02 1.202 14.15 1.93E-02 3.03E-02 1.573 9.78 1.93E-02 2.16E-04 0.014 7.25 1.93E-02 2.96E-02 1.535 5.97 1.93E-02 2.18E-02 1.136 2.96 1.93E-02 1.58E-02 0.827 1.8 1.93E-02 1.48E-02 0.778 0.55 1.93E-02 9.59E-03 0.509 0.025 1.93E-02 1.93E-02 1.00
10 0.162 1.93E-02 1.22E-02 0.6311 2.32 1.93E-02 1.13E-02 0.5912 1.43 1.93E-02 3.46E-02 1.7913 0.67 1.93E-02 -1.23E-02 -0.6414 1 1.93E-02 2.17E-02 1.1315 0.37 1.93E-02 7.49E-02 3.88
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Reference Bz is negative with positive dBz/dr
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Bz scan dBz/dr scan
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Impacts of varying Bz• Plasma shifts outward with more positive Bz• Minor radius at midplane increases, less indentation• Little impact on iota or flux surfaces
Reference 0.5 Reference Zero Bz
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Impacts of varying dBz/dr• Increasing dBz/dr did not move axis or change height• Increased volume with good surfaces• Doubled central iota from .042 to .100
Zero dBz/dr Reference 2x Reference
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Harmonic analyses
• Although varying Bz and dBz/dr had significant impacts on the plasma position and volume, stochastic region still persisted outside of 3/18 and 3/19 island chains
• Harmonic analysis performed to assess problem• Used analytic formulae from “Field Error
Modeling Studies in the ATF” by ORNL (1990)
d0=4 (Bmn R0 / [m B0 di/dr])0.5
where Bmn(r)=Bmn(a)*(r/a)m-1
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The outer region of the plasma is packed with n=3 resonances
• Stochastic region typically seen for iota > 3/19 (0.158)
• Nine primary resonances in this region (m= 18 through m=10)
• Spacing between resonant surfaces ranges from 7-12 mm
• Estimated island size is 3x spacing between resonant surfaces near edge
• Overlapping islands predicted for iota > 0.19
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Initial efforts to beat down resonances unsuccessful
• Resonances beaten down to avoid overlapping islands for iota>3/19– Number of resonances comparable to number of
coils– As resonant errors go down, non-resonant errors
went up
• PIES did not produce any surface plots
• Initial efforts by AB also unsuccessful
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Is problem fundamental?
• Harmonic analysis conducted by coil type• TF coils introduce many, large resonant field errors that
need to be bucked out by saddle coils• Saddles knock field errors down by an order of magnitude
but that is not good enough
m Bmn_TF Bmn_TF/PF/Saddles10 3.15E-02 6.13E-03 0.1911 -3.10E-02 3.63E-03 0.1212 -1.81E-02 -3.20E-04 0.0213 1.77E-02 1.24E-03 0.0714 1.08E-02 3.10E-03 0.2915 -9.95E-03 2.61E-04 0.0316 -6.95E-03 -7.20E-04 0.1017 5.65E-03 -1.30E-03 0.2318 4.60E-03 5.79E-04 0.13