A two-term model of the confinement in Elmy H-modes using the global confinement and pedestal databases

J. G. Cordey, J. A. Snipes, M. Greenwald, F. Ryter, O. J.W.F. Kardaun, J. Stober, M. Valovic, A. Sykes, A. Dnestrovskij, M. Walsh, J. C. DeBoo, T. N. Carlstrom, G. Bracco, E. Righi, J. G. Cordey, K. Thomsen, D. McDonald, Y. Miura, K. Shinohara, K. TsuzukiT. Fukuda, Y. Kamada, T. Takizuka, H. Urano, S. M. Kaye, C. Bush, Y. Martin, A. Cote, G. Pacher, J. Ongena, S. Lebedev, A. Chudnovskiy, A. Hubbard, W. Suttrop, L. D. Horton, T. H. Osborne, G. Janeschitz, M. Sugihara, T. Hatae, Y. Kamada

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Abstract

Two different physical models of the H-mode pedestal are tested against the joint pedestal-core database. The first is a confinement model in which the transport down the steep edge gradient is assumed to be dominated by thermal conduction. The second model is a magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) limit model in which it is assumed that the dominant loss mechanism is by the edge localized modes (ELMs), the pressure gradient being determined by a MHD stability limit. These models are then combined with models for the core and shown to give a good fit to the ELMy H-mode database. The resulting two-term scaling expressions are shown to give very similar predictions for the confinement time, in the next step machines ITER and FIRE, to that of the one-term model IPB98(y,2). The predicted stored energy in the pedestal is 28-50% of the total stored energy.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)670-674
Number of pages5
JournalNuclear Fusion
Volume43
Issue number8
DOIs
StatePublished - Aug 2003

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics
  • Condensed Matter Physics

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