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Shape Optimization for DIII-D Advanced Tokamak Plasmas

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The advanced tokamak program on DIII-D is targeting the full integration of high-beta and high-bootstrap/noninductive current fraction for long-pulse lengths and the high confinement consistent with these features. Central to achieving these simultaneously is access to the highest ideal beta limits possible to maximize the headroom for experimental operation with RWM control. A study of the ideal-MHD stability is done for plasmas modeled after DIII-D advanced tokamak plasmas, varying the plasma elongation, triangularity, and outboard squareness. The highest beta(sub)N limits reach 6-7 for the n=1 kink mode for all elongation, outer squareness values, and plasma triangularity equals 0.8

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Available from INIS in electronic form; Also available from OSTI as DE00814731; PURL: https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/814731-VHg3BS/native/

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https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/814731-VHg3BS/native/;

Publishing Information

Imprint Pagination
8 p.
Report number
PPPL--3848

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
34074069
Subject category
S70: PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY;
Descriptors DEI
CONFINEMENT; DOUBLET-3 DEVICE; ELONGATION; EQUILIBRIUM; OPTIMIZATION; PLASMA; SHAPE; STABILITY
Descriptors DEC
CLOSED PLASMA DEVICES; DEFORMATION; THERMONUCLEAR DEVICES; TOKAMAK DEVICES

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Contract/Grant/Project number
AC02-76CH03073
Funding organization
USDOE Office of Science (United States)