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Non-linear instabilities in the edge of tokamak plasmas : characterization of edge localized modes and numerical simulation of blob dynamics using a hybrid model

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Calderon, F. A. (2015) Non-linear instabilities in the edge of tokamak plasmas : characterization of edge localized modes and numerical simulation of blob dynamics using a hybrid model. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.

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Abstract

Characterization of edge tokamak plasma instabilities by measuring emergent phenomena within a range of frequencies above the ion cyclotron frequency have been explored in two ways: using the inter-event waiting times of Edge Localized Modes (ELMs) occurrences in measured time series of JET plasmas and by performing 2D/3D simulations of filamentary structures dynamics using a hybrid model plasma description, i.e. kinetic ion particles and massless charge neutralizing electron fluid.

The analysis of ELMs time series using characteristic emission lines Da of JET tokamak in otherwise similar plasmas was performed with only a minimal number of drivers such as the gas puffing rate. They have shown a key role in changing the underlying system mode cycle where a threshold value revealed its transition from single harmonic behaviour to a transitioning phase into a total lost of the state and born of a higher frequency resonant mode.

Hybrid simulations of blobs/filaments are performed in 2D/3D to observe the kinetic evolution of these plasma structures over several ion gyroperiods. Novel 3D simulations represent the first kinetic simulations of these structures along the parallel direction using a kinetic description. We have investigated the evolution and the internal density currents which provide insight of the effects of finite Larmor radius in the blobs dynamics and evolution.

Item Type: Thesis (PhD)
Subjects: Q Science > QC Physics
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): Tokamaks, Plasma instabilities
Official Date: September 2015
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September 2015Submitted
Institution: University of Warwick
Theses Department: Department of Physics
Thesis Type: PhD
Publication Status: Unpublished
Supervisor(s)/Advisor: Chapman, Sandra ; Dendy, R. O.
Extent: viii, 122 leaves : illustrations (colour), charts
Language: eng

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