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Formation of self-consistent pressure profiles in simulation of turbulent convection in tokamak plasmas

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The formation of pressure profiles in turbulent tokamak plasmas in ohmic heating regimes and transient regimes induced by turning-on of electron-cyclotron resonance (ECR) heating is investigated. The study is based on self-consistent modeling of low-frequency turbulent plasma convection described by an adiabatically reduced set of hydrodynamic-type equations. The simulations show that, in the ohmic heating stage, turbulence forms and maintains profiles of the total plasma pressure corresponding to turbulentrelaxed states. These profiles are close to self-consistent profiles of the total plasma pressure experimentally observed on the T-10 tokamak in ohmic regimes with different values of the safety factor q L at the limiter. Simulations of nonstationary regimes induced by turning-on of on- and off-axis ECR heating show that the total plasma pressure profiles in the transient regimes remain close to those in the turbulent-relaxed state, as well as to the profiles experimentally observed on T-10.

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Original Russian Text © V.P. Pastukhov, D.V. Smirnov, 2016, published in Fizika Plazmy, 2016, Vol. 42, No. 4, pp. 307–320.

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Pastukhov, V.P., Smirnov, D.V. Formation of self-consistent pressure profiles in simulation of turbulent convection in tokamak plasmas. Plasma Phys. Rep. 42, 307–318 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063780X16040061

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