dc.creator | Sips, A. C. C. | es |
dc.creator | Schweinzer, J. | es |
dc.creator | Luce, T. C. | es |
dc.creator | Wolfe, S. | es |
dc.creator | Urano, H. | es |
dc.creator | Jet Contributors | es |
dc.creator | García Muñoz, Manuel | es |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-08-31T16:16:06Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-08-31T16:16:06Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2018-12 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Sips, A.C.C., Schweinzer, J., Luce, T.C., Wolfe, S., Urano, H., Jet Contributors, y García Muñoz, M. (2018). Assessment of the baseline scenario at q(95) similar to 3 for ITER. Nuclear Fusion, 58 (12), 26010. https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/aade57. | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1741-4326 | es |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/11441/100582 | |
dc.description.abstract | The International Tokamak Physics Activity topical group on integrated operational
scenarios has compiled a database of stationary H-mode discharges at q95 ~ 3 from AUG,
C-Mod, DIII-D, JET and JT-60U, for both carbon wall and high-Z metal wall experiments
with ~3300 entries. The analyses focus on discharges that are stationary for ⩾5 thermal
energy confinement times to evaluate the baseline scenario proposed for ITER at 15 MA for
achieving its goals of Q = 10, fusion power of 500 MW at normalised pressure, βN = 1.8 and
normalised confinement as predicted by the standard H-mode scaling, H98y2 = 1. With the data
restricted to stationary H-modes at q95 ~ 3, the database shows significant variation of thermal
energy confinement compared to the standard H-mode scaling (IPB98(y,2)) in dimensionless
form. The data show similar scaling with normalised gyro-radius, but more favourable scaling
towards lower collision frequency and more favourable scaling with plasma beta. Using all the engineering variables employed in IPB98(y,2), results in an overfit due to correlations among
the data. Moreover, there are significant residual trends in the confinement for plasma current,
device size, loss power, and in particular for the plasma density. Significant differences
between results obtained for devices with a carbon wall and high-Z metal wall are observed in
the data, with data from carbon wall devices providing a larger operating space, encompassing
ITER parameters or even exceeding them. H-modes in high-Z metal wall devices have, so-far,
not accessed conditions at low collision frequencies, have lower normalised confinement
(H98y2 ~ 0.8–0.9) at low input power or beta, achieving H98y2 ~ 1.0 only at input powers two
times the L- to H-mode transition scaling predictions and at βN ~ 2.0. Hence, only the best
H-modes with high-Z metal walls reach ITER baseline performance requirements. The data
show that operating at high plasma density, with line-averaged density at 85% of Greenwald
density is achievable for H98y2 > 0.95 for a range of plasma configurations, and that operation
at low plasma inductance with li(3) ~ 0.7–0.75 is feasible. Scenario simulations employed for
projecting the plasma performance in ITER should incorporate a lower thermal confinement
at low plasma beta for the entry to burn and provide projections using higher levels of plasma
core radiation by plasma impurities. Moreover, ITER projections should not subtract the
core radiation in the evaluation of the thermal confinement time and H98y2, to allow a fair
comparison with experimental data currently available. From the data presented here, it is
likely that in ITER the energy confinement time will not increase with plasma density and
will have no degradation with plasma beta. The analyses indicate that the data at q95 ~ 3 are
consistent with achievement of the ITER mission goals at 15 MA. | es |
dc.description.sponsorship | EURATOM 633053 | es |
dc.description.sponsorship | U.S. Department of Energy DE-FC02-99ER54512 | es |
dc.format | application/pdf | es |
dc.format.extent | 24 p. | es |
dc.language.iso | eng | es |
dc.publisher | IOP Publishing | es |
dc.relation.ispartof | Nuclear Fusion, 58 (12), 26010. | |
dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | * |
dc.subject | ITER | es |
dc.subject | Scenario | es |
dc.subject | ITPA | es |
dc.subject | Confinement | es |
dc.subject | Perfomance | es |
dc.subject | Database | es |
dc.title | Assessment of the baseline scenario at q(95) similar to 3 for ITER | es |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | es |
dcterms.identifier | https://ror.org/03yxnpp24 | |
dc.type.version | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion | es |
dc.rights.accessRights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | es |
dc.contributor.affiliation | Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Física Atómica, Molecular y Nuclear | es |
dc.relation.projectID | 633053 | es |
dc.relation.projectID | DE-FC02-99ER54512 | es |
dc.relation.publisherversion | https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/aade57 | es |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1088/1741-4326/aade57 | es |
dc.contributor.group | Universidad de Sevilla. RNM138: Física Nuclear Aplicada | es |
dc.journaltitle | Nuclear Fusion | es |
dc.publication.volumen | 58 | es |
dc.publication.issue | 12 | es |
dc.publication.initialPage | 26010 | es |