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Optimization of flux-surface density variation in stellarator plasmas with respect to the transport of collisional impurities
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- Avoiding impurity accumulation is a requirement for steady-state stellarator operation. The accumulation of impurities can be heavily affected by variations in their density on the flux-surface. Using recently derived semi-analytic expressions for the transport of a collisional impurity species with high-$Z$ and flux-surface density-variation in the presence of a low-collisionality bulk ion species, we numerically optimize the impurity density-variation on the flux-surface to minimize the radial peaking factor of the impurities. These optimized density-variations can reduce the core impurity density by $0.75^Z$ (with $Z$ the impurity charge number) in the Large Helical Device case considered here, and by $0.89^Z$ in a Wendelstein 7-X standard configuration case. On the other hand, when the same procedure is used to find density-variations that maximize the peaking factor, it is notably increased compared to the case with no density-variation. This highlights the potential importance of measuring and controlling these variations in experiments.<br />Comment: 19 figures, 17 pages. Accepted into Nuclear Fusion
- Subjects :
- Physics - Plasma Physics
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- Database :
- arXiv
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.1812.09194
- Document Type :
- Working Paper
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/ab12a7