A zero dimensional study of Ohmically heated negative triangularity tokamaks

Because negative triangularity plasma scenarios remain in L-mode, they do not require external heating systems that exceed the H-mode power threshold. Operating with less heating has the potential to improve performance as heating generally degrades confinement in tokamaks. Using simple zero dimensi...

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Main Authors Balestri, Alessandro, Ball, Justin, Coda, Stefano
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 08.07.2024
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Physics - Plasma Physics
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Summary:Because negative triangularity plasma scenarios remain in L-mode, they do not require external heating systems that exceed the H-mode power threshold. Operating with less heating has the potential to improve performance as heating generally degrades confinement in tokamaks. Using simple zero dimensional power balance and standard empirical scaling laws for confinement, we analyze the impact of external heating on several different reactor-relevant devices (i.e. SPARC, MANTA, ITER and DEMO). We compare the nominal externally heated scenarios against equivalent negative tringularity cases without external heating. For most of these devices, the Ohmically heated negative triangularity versions achieve better performance, particularly for devices with high magnetic field and/or high fusion gain.
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.2407.06439