A Hall magnetohydrodynamics （MHD） simulation is carried out to study the dynamic process of double tearing mode. The results indicated that the growth rates in the earlier nonlinear and transition phases agree with ...A Hall magnetohydrodynamics （MHD） simulation is carried out to study the dynamic process of double tearing mode. The results indicated that the growth rates in the earlier nonlinear and transition phases agree with the previous results. With further development of reconnection, the current sheet thickness is much smaller than the ion inertia length, which leads to a strong influence of the Hall effects. As a result, the reconnection in the late nonlinear phase exhibits an explosive nature with a time scale nearly independent of resistivity. A localized and severely intensified current density is observed and the maximum kinetic energy is over one order of magnitude higher in Hall MHD than that in resistive MHD.展开更多
In a real medium which has oscillations, the perturbations can cause an energy transfer between different modes. A perturbation, which is interpreted as an interaction between the modes, is inferred to be mode couplin...In a real medium which has oscillations, the perturbations can cause an energy transfer between different modes. A perturbation, which is interpreted as an interaction between the modes, is inferred to be mode coupling. The mode coupling process in an inhomogeneous medium such as solar spicules may lead to the coupling of kink waves to local Alfven waves. This coupling occurs in practically any conditions when there is smooth variation in density in the radial direction. This process is seen as the decay of transverse kink waves in the medium. To study the damping of kink waves due to mode coupling, a 2.5-dimensional numerical simulation of the initial wave is considered in spicules. The initial perturbation is assumed to be in a plane perpendicular to the spicule axis. The considered kink wave is a standing wave which shows an exponential damping in the inhomogeneous layer after the mode coupling occurs.展开更多
The influence of stationary driven helical current on tearing mode instability in the m=2/n=1 rational surface is explored numerically using resistive magnetohydrodynamic simulation in cylindrical geometry.The results...The influence of stationary driven helical current on tearing mode instability in the m=2/n=1 rational surface is explored numerically using resistive magnetohydrodynamic simulation in cylindrical geometry.The results indicate that the flip instabilities result from the sustained injection of the sufficiently strong helical current driven in the island O-point.The driven helical current induces high order harmonics of instabilities due to the delay of suppressing timing and the increase of its current intensity.With the appropriate current density values,the development of the perturbed kinetic energy can be limited and the occurrence of the flip instabilities can be delayed for a long time.The radial deviation of the current deposition can lead to poor inhibition effect,and the effect of current bias on the boundary is greater than that on the axis.展开更多
Stabilization/destabilization of magnetohydrodynamic （MHD） waves are formulated in terms of wave energy, where the waves are subject to Alfven and sound resonances and also influenced by small resistivity at conduct...Stabilization/destabilization of magnetohydrodynamic （MHD） waves are formulated in terms of wave energy, where the waves are subject to Alfven and sound resonances and also influenced by small resistivity at conductive wall. Negative energy wave, which may exist in the presence of mean flow, is shown to be destabilized by the resistive wall, where its growth rate is characterized by the energy dissipation rate. The effect of resonance is examined as well based on a recent knowledge of wave energy for Alfv4n and sound continuum modes. Resonant coupling between an eigenmode and a continuum mode having the same sign of energy results in phase mixing （or continuum） damping. In contrast, if their signs are opposite, such resonance triggers an instability.展开更多
On the Large Helical Device （LHD） where nested magnetic surfaces are surrounded by the ergodic field layer, edge transport barrier （ETB） was produced in neutral-beam-injection （NBI） heated plasmas through transi...On the Large Helical Device （LHD） where nested magnetic surfaces are surrounded by the ergodic field layer, edge transport barrier （ETB） was produced in neutral-beam-injection （NBI） heated plasmas through transition and non-transition processes. The former case is the ETB formation by L-Htransition, where characteristics of L-H transition observed in a tokamak plasma are clearly recognized. The confinement improvement is the modest （- 10%）, compared with the ISS95 international stellarator scaling. The threshold power for the transition is comparable or slightly lower than the ITER scaling law established by tokamaks and compact tori. The ETB is formed inside the ergodic field layer of the vacuum field. The ETB formation destabilizes edge coherent modes such as m/n = 1/1, 2/3 and 1/2, of which rational surfaces are in the magnetic hill. The formed ETB is partially and transiently destroyed by these coherent edge MHD modes and edge localized modes （ELMs） typically observed in Ha signals. The latter ETB is observed in a plasma with large reversed NBI-driven current more than 100 kA at Bt = 1 T. In these plasmas, the edge magnetic shear is enhanced by the current and the rotational transform in the core region is expected to be appreciably reduced. Thus reduced rotational transform in the plasma central region will enhance outward heat and particle fluxes toward ergodic edge layer. The ETB with steep electron temperature gradient up to - 5 keV/m is formed by blocking enhanced outward heat flux.展开更多
The theoretical and numerical studies on kinetic micro-instabilities,including ion temperature gradient（ITG） driven modes,trapped electron modes（TEMs） in the presence of impurity ions as well as impurity modes（IM...The theoretical and numerical studies on kinetic micro-instabilities,including ion temperature gradient（ITG） driven modes,trapped electron modes（TEMs） in the presence of impurity ions as well as impurity modes（IMs）,induced by impurity density gradient alone,in toroidal magnetized plasmas,such as tokamak and reversed-field pinch（RFP） are reviewed briefly.The basic theory for IMs,the electrostatic instabilities in tokamak and RFP plasmas are discussed.The observations of hybrid and coexistence of the instabilities are categorized systematically.The effects of impurity ions on electromagnetic instabilities such as ITG modes,the kinetic ballooning modes（KBMs） and kinetic shear Alfvén modes induced by impurity ions in tokamak plasmas of finite β（=plasma pressure/magnetic pressure） are analyzed.The interesting topics for future investigation are suggested.展开更多
基金National Science Foundation of China(Nos.40474058,40536030 and 10575031)
文摘A Hall magnetohydrodynamics （MHD） simulation is carried out to study the dynamic process of double tearing mode. The results indicated that the growth rates in the earlier nonlinear and transition phases agree with the previous results. With further development of reconnection, the current sheet thickness is much smaller than the ion inertia length, which leads to a strong influence of the Hall effects. As a result, the reconnection in the late nonlinear phase exhibits an explosive nature with a time scale nearly independent of resistivity. A localized and severely intensified current density is observed and the maximum kinetic energy is over one order of magnitude higher in Hall MHD than that in resistive MHD.
文摘In a real medium which has oscillations, the perturbations can cause an energy transfer between different modes. A perturbation, which is interpreted as an interaction between the modes, is inferred to be mode coupling. The mode coupling process in an inhomogeneous medium such as solar spicules may lead to the coupling of kink waves to local Alfven waves. This coupling occurs in practically any conditions when there is smooth variation in density in the radial direction. This process is seen as the decay of transverse kink waves in the medium. To study the damping of kink waves due to mode coupling, a 2.5-dimensional numerical simulation of the initial wave is considered in spicules. The initial perturbation is assumed to be in a plane perpendicular to the spicule axis. The considered kink wave is a standing wave which shows an exponential damping in the inhomogeneous layer after the mode coupling occurs.
基金supported by the National Key R&D Program of China(No.2017YFE0302000)the Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province(No.2017JJ2230)+1 种基金National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.11675073 and11375085)the Key Laboratory of Magnetic Confinement Nuclear Fusion Research in Hengyang(2018KJ108)
文摘The influence of stationary driven helical current on tearing mode instability in the m=2/n=1 rational surface is explored numerically using resistive magnetohydrodynamic simulation in cylindrical geometry.The results indicate that the flip instabilities result from the sustained injection of the sufficiently strong helical current driven in the island O-point.The driven helical current induces high order harmonics of instabilities due to the delay of suppressing timing and the increase of its current intensity.With the appropriate current density values,the development of the perturbed kinetic energy can be limited and the occurrence of the flip instabilities can be delayed for a long time.The radial deviation of the current deposition can lead to poor inhibition effect,and the effect of current bias on the boundary is greater than that on the axis.
基金supported in part by the JSPS-CAS Core-University Program in the field of Plasma and Nuclear Fusion
文摘Stabilization/destabilization of magnetohydrodynamic （MHD） waves are formulated in terms of wave energy, where the waves are subject to Alfven and sound resonances and also influenced by small resistivity at conductive wall. Negative energy wave, which may exist in the presence of mean flow, is shown to be destabilized by the resistive wall, where its growth rate is characterized by the energy dissipation rate. The effect of resonance is examined as well based on a recent knowledge of wave energy for Alfv4n and sound continuum modes. Resonant coupling between an eigenmode and a continuum mode having the same sign of energy results in phase mixing （or continuum） damping. In contrast, if their signs are opposite, such resonance triggers an instability.
基金supported in part by the JSPS-CAS Core-University Program in the field of Plasma and Nuclear Fusion and the JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Exploratory Research(No.6656287)
文摘On the Large Helical Device （LHD） where nested magnetic surfaces are surrounded by the ergodic field layer, edge transport barrier （ETB） was produced in neutral-beam-injection （NBI） heated plasmas through transition and non-transition processes. The former case is the ETB formation by L-Htransition, where characteristics of L-H transition observed in a tokamak plasma are clearly recognized. The confinement improvement is the modest （- 10%）, compared with the ISS95 international stellarator scaling. The threshold power for the transition is comparable or slightly lower than the ITER scaling law established by tokamaks and compact tori. The ETB is formed inside the ergodic field layer of the vacuum field. The ETB formation destabilizes edge coherent modes such as m/n = 1/1, 2/3 and 1/2, of which rational surfaces are in the magnetic hill. The formed ETB is partially and transiently destroyed by these coherent edge MHD modes and edge localized modes （ELMs） typically observed in Ha signals. The latter ETB is observed in a plasma with large reversed NBI-driven current more than 100 kA at Bt = 1 T. In these plasmas, the edge magnetic shear is enhanced by the current and the rotational transform in the core region is expected to be appreciably reduced. Thus reduced rotational transform in the plasma central region will enhance outward heat and particle fluxes toward ergodic edge layer. The ETB with steep electron temperature gradient up to - 5 keV/m is formed by blocking enhanced outward heat flux.
基金supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.11475057 and 11575158)the National Key R&D Program of China under Grant No.2017YFE0300405
文摘The theoretical and numerical studies on kinetic micro-instabilities,including ion temperature gradient（ITG） driven modes,trapped electron modes（TEMs） in the presence of impurity ions as well as impurity modes（IMs）,induced by impurity density gradient alone,in toroidal magnetized plasmas,such as tokamak and reversed-field pinch（RFP） are reviewed briefly.The basic theory for IMs,the electrostatic instabilities in tokamak and RFP plasmas are discussed.The observations of hybrid and coexistence of the instabilities are categorized systematically.The effects of impurity ions on electromagnetic instabilities such as ITG modes,the kinetic ballooning modes（KBMs） and kinetic shear Alfvén modes induced by impurity ions in tokamak plasmas of finite β（=plasma pressure/magnetic pressure） are analyzed.The interesting topics for future investigation are suggested.
