Open AccessSimulations of alpha particle ripple loss from the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor
Author(s) -
M. H. Redi,
R. Budny,
D. McCune,
C. O. Miller,
R. B. White
Publication year - 1996
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/238590
Subject(s) - ripple , thermonuclear fusion , physics , tokamak , diii d , alpha particle , tokamak fusion test reactor , nuclear physics , mechanics , computational physics , plasma , thermodynamics , power (physics)
Calculations of collisional stochastic ripple loss of alpha particles from the new 20 toroidal field (TF) coil International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) predict small alpha ripple losses, less than 0.4%, close to the loss calculated for the full current operation of the earlier 24 TF coil design. An analytic fit is obtained to the ITER ripple data field demonstrating the nonlinear height dependence of the ripple minimum for D shaped ripple contours. In contrast to alpha loss simulations for the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR), a simple Goldston, White, Boozer stochastic loss criterion ripple loss model is found to require an increased renormalization of the stochastic threshold {delta}{sub s}/{delta}{sub GWB} {ge} 1. Effects of collisions, sawtooth broadening and reversal of the grad B drift direction are included in the particle following simulations