Investigation of the dependence of pe,ped on ne,sep in JET H-Mode plasmas using integrated JETTO-MISHKA-FRANTIC simulations
Simpson, J. and Moulton, D. and Giroud, C. and Groth, M. and Horvath, L. and Casson, F.J. and Kochl, F. and Frassinetti, L. and Corrigan, G. and Saarelma, S. and Garzotti, L. and Gahle, D.S. and Chankin, A., JET Contributors (2023) Investigation of the dependence of pe,ped on ne,sep in JET H-Mode plasmas using integrated JETTO-MISHKA-FRANTIC simulations. Nuclear Materials and Energy, 34. 101365. ISSN 2352-1791 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nme.2023.101365)
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Abstract
Experimentally, it has been observed in high-confinement (H-Mode) plasmas with Edge Localised Modes (ELMs) on JET that the pressure pedestal (pe,ped) is degraded by approximately a factor of two when there is a change in electron separatrix density, ne,sep, from 1−4×1019m−3. Previous work using the pedestal stability code EUROPED, has been able to predict the degradation of pe,ped but only for ne,sep≤1.5×1019m−3. In this work, we apply a coupled code JETTO-MISHKA-FRANTIC, to self-consistently predict the transport in the pedestal region and neutral source with varying separatrix conditions. The code feeds back on the transport in the pedestal region to achieve profiles that are marginally stable to ideal MHD modes (continuous ELM model in JETTO). When accounting for the change in electron separatrix temperature (Te,sep), ion separatrix temperature (Ti,sep) and the poloidally integrated neutral flux crossing the separatrix (Γsep,neut) as it changes with ne,sep (according to a scan in ne,sep in the edge code EDGE2D-EIRENE), no degradation in pe,ped was observed in JETTO-MISHKA-FRANTIC in contrast to experiment. Instead, an increase in pe,ped with ne,sep was observed which is driven by an increasing density pedestal (ne,ped). Within the presented JETTO-MISHKA-FRANTIC simulations, changing the pedestal width by a factor of two and a half in normalised poloidal flux (ψn) resulted in an approximately 40% degradation in pe,ped for ne,sep=1−3×1019m−3. This change in pedestal width was not supported by experimental data. A scan in the ratio of particle and energy transport in the pedestal (D/χ) was found to have a negligible effect on pe,ped. Qualitative agreement between JETTO-MISHKA-FRANTIC with EUROPED was found when the input density profiles are identical.
ORCID iDs
Simpson, J., Moulton, D., Giroud, C., Groth, M., Horvath, L., Casson, F.J., Kochl, F., Frassinetti, L., Corrigan, G., Saarelma, S., Garzotti, L., Gahle, D.S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4434-7626 and Chankin, A.;-
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Item type: Article ID code: 85268 Dates: DateEvent31 March 2023Published4 February 2023Published Online9 January 2023AcceptedSubjects: Science > Physics > Nuclear and particle physics. Atomic energy. Radioactivity Department: Faculty of Science > Physics Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 25 Apr 2023 11:10 Last modified: 06 Sep 2024 01:10 URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/85268