Title :
Shape Reconstruction of RF-Driven Divertor Plasma on QUEST
Author :
Nakamura, Kentaro ; Fujita, Hideaki ; Liu, X.L. ; Xue, E.B. ; Xia, Feng ; Mitarai, O. ; Kurihara, Keiichirou ; Kawamata, Yuji ; Sueoka, M. ; Hasegawa, Mikio ; Tokunaga, Kyoya ; Zushi, H. ; Hanada, K. ; Fujisawa, A. ; Matsuoka, Koichi ; Idei, Hiroshi ; Nag
Author_Institution :
Res. Inst. of Appl. Mech., Kyushu Univ., Fukuoka, Japan
Abstract :
In the present RF-driven plasma with a lot of high-energy electrons, there may be anisotropic plasma pressure, which makes the usual equilibrium analysis difficult, but the Cauchy condition surface method can reconstruct the plasma shape precisely regardless of the anisotropy. In addition, the plasma current effect in the open magnetic surfaces outside of the closed magnetic surfaces is considered in the RF-driven divertor plasma. In the reconstruction process, singular value (SV) decomposition is used and optimal criterion function for generalized cross validation is estimated concerning truncation or reduction of the small-SV components.
Keywords :
Tokamak devices; fusion reactor divertors; plasma pressure; plasma toroidal confinement; plasma transport processes; singular value decomposition; Cauchy condition surface method; QUEST; RF-driven divertor plasma; anisotropic plasma pressure; closed magnetic surfaces; equilibrium analysis; high-energy electrons; open magnetic surfaces; optimal criterion function; plasma current effect; shape reconstruction; singular value decomposition; spherical tokamak; Coils; Current density; Perpendicular magnetic anisotropy; Plasmas; Shape; Surface reconstruction; Cauchy condition surface (CCS); QUEST; RF-driven; divertor plasma; generalized cross validation (GCV); singular value decomposition (SVD);
Journal_Title :
Plasma Science, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TPS.2014.2341616