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Todo, Yasushi; Sato, Tetsuya
Proceedings of the 6th IAEA Technical Committee meeting on energetic particles in magnetic confinement systems2000
Proceedings of the 6th IAEA Technical Committee meeting on energetic particles in magnetic confinement systems2000
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[en] Nonlinear evolution of fast ions and Alfven eigenmodes, especially the toroidicity-induced Alfven eigenmodes (TAEs), is investigated with two types of Fokker-Planck-MHD simulations. In the first type of simulation, the fast-ion evolution is described by a 4-dimensional Fokker-Planck equation which takes fast-ion source and slowing down into account. The background plasma is described by the nonlinear full MHD equations. A bursting behavior of multiple TAEs, which takes place in neutral beam injection experiments, is reproduced when the slowing-down time is much longer than the mode damping time and the fast-ion pressure is sufficiently high. In the second type of simulation, 5-dimensional Fokker-Planck equation is solved with a linear TAE. In addition to the particle source and slowing down, the pitch-angle scattering is taken into account. The simulation code is benchmarked with the linear behavior of the alpha-particle-driven n=4 TAE in the TFTR D-T plasma. With a realistic pitch-angle-scattering rate and a chosen damping rate, the relaxation time to a steady saturation state is found to be too long to explain the experiment. (author)
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Japan Atomic Energy Research Inst., Tokyo (Japan); 152 p; Mar 2000; p. 57-60; 6. IAEA Technical Committee meeting on energetic particles in magnetic confinement systems; Naka, Ibaraki (Japan); 12-14 Oct 1999; 12 refs., 6 figs.
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