S.A. Sabbagh et al 2006 Nucl. Fusion 46 635 doi:10.1088/0029-5515/46/5/014
Resistive wall stabilized operation in rotating high beta NSTX plasmas
S.A. Sabbagh1, A.C. Sontag1, J.M. Bialek1, D.A. Gates2, A.H. Glasser3, J.E. Menard2, W. Zhu1, M.G. Bell2, R.E. Bell2, A. Bondeson4, C.E. Bush5, J.D. Callen6, M.S. Chu7, C.C. Hegna6, S.M. Kaye2, L.L. Lao7, B.P. LeBlanc2, Y.Q. Liu4, R. Maingi5, D. Mueller2, K.C. Shaing6, D. Stutman8, K. Tritz8 and C. Zhang9
Show affiliationsThe National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX) has demonstrated the advantages of low aspect ratio geometry in accessing high toroidal and normalized plasma beta, 
and βN ≡ 108
βt
aB0/Ip. Experiments have reached βt = 39% and βN = 7.2 through boundary and profile optimization. High βN plasmas can exceed the ideal no-wall stability limit, βNno−wall, for periods much greater than the wall eddy current decay time. Resistive wall mode (RWM) physics is studied to understand mode stabilization in these plasmas. The toroidal mode spectrum of unstable RWMs has been measured with mode number n up to 3. The critical rotation frequency of Bondeson–Chu, Ωcrit = ωA/(4q2), describes well the RWM stability of NSTX plasmas when applied over the entire rotation profile and in conjunction with the ideal stability criterion. Rotation damping and global rotation collapse observed in plasmas exceeding βNno−wall differs from the damping observed during tearing mode activity and can be described qualitatively by drag due to neoclassical toroidal viscosity in the helically perturbed field of an ideal displacement. Resonant field amplification of an applied n = 1 field perturbation has been measured and increases with increasing βN. Equilibria are reconstructed including measured ion and electron pressure, toroidal rotation and flux isotherm constraint in plasmas with core rotation ω
/ωA up to 0.48. Peak pressure shifts of 18% of the minor radius from the magnetic axis have been reconstructed.
- PACS
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52.55.Hc Stellarators, torsatrons, heliacs, bumpy tori, and other toroidal confinement devices
52.40.Hf Plasma-material interactions; boundary layer effects
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Issue 5 (May 2006)
Received 9 September 2005, accepted for publication 3 April 2006
Published 28 April 2006
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Resistive wall stabilized operation in rotating high beta NSTX plasmas
S.A. Sabbagh et al 2006 Nucl. Fusion 46 635
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