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Exploring Performance Scaling Properties of Local Helicity Injection Plasma Startup on Pegasus-III
Exploring Performance Scaling Properties of Local Helicity Injection Plasma Startup on Pegasus-III
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- 단행본
- 0017357519
- Date and Time of Latest Transaction
- 20260202103523
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- 9798314872796
- DDC
- 530
- Author
- Weberski, Justin Daniel.
- Title/Author
- Exploring Performance Scaling Properties of Local Helicity Injection Plasma Startup on Pegasus-III
- Publish Info
- [Sl] : The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2025
- Publish Info
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2025
- Material Info
- 191 p
- General Note
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-11, Section: B.
- General Note
- Advisor: Diem, Stephanie J.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2025.
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- 요약Solenoid-free tokamak startup techniques can simplify the design and reduce the cost of tokamak-based fusion energy systems. The newly commissioned Pegasus-III spherical tokamak provides a dedicated platform for developing a scalable solenoid-free startup approach. Local helicity injection (LHI) is one promising technique being developed on Pegasus-III which uses compact edge current sources to drive open field line current Iinj which is redistributed via helicity-conserving instabilities and subsequently relaxes to a tokamak-like state with plasma current Ip far greater than Iinj. Validated predictive models are needed to accurately project LHI performance on Pegasus-III and beyond. This work advances this goal by characterizing the scaling of a fundamental global Ip limit, referred to as the Taylor limit ITL, and helicity dissipation during LHI discharges in the expanded operating space provided by Pegasus-III. These experiments illustrate that increasing the Taylor limit leads to more effective utilization of the available helicity input and higher Ip plasmas. Further, they verify the expected ITL∝(Iinj BT )1⁄2 scaling holds for toroidal field BT and Iinj up to 0.3 T on axis and 12 kA, respectively. Additionally, data from different injector arrays show that the width of the injector aperture directly alters ITL and can be leveraged for future injector design optimization. Discharges over-driven at Ip=ITL experienced more frequent bursts of n=1 magnetic activity consistent with large scale reconnection events. These reconnection events appear to drive magnetic relaxation in these discharges as indicated by a flattening of the λ=μ0 J∥⁄|B| profile, where J∥ is the parallel current density. When operating with IpITL, the Ip is dictated by the balance of magnetic helicity input and dissipation. Parametric BT and density scans were assessed in the context of global energy confinement models to characterize the scaling of helicity dissipation during LHI. Relatively high amounts of radiated power attributed to plasma-material interactions appear to be dominating the power balance in these discharges and may mask the behavior of the underlying energy confinement properties. Still, interpretive analysis with an extended 0-D power balance model suggests that the experimental trends may be described by linear ohmic energy confinement scaling estimates.
- Subject Added Entry-Topical Term
- Plasma physics
- Subject Added Entry-Topical Term
- Nuclear physics
- Subject Added Entry-Topical Term
- Applied physics
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- Fusion
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- Local helicity injection
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- Pegasus-III
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- Solenoid-free startup
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- Spherical tokamak
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- Taylor relaxation
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- The University of Wisconsin - Madison Nuclear Engineering & Engineering Physics
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- Dissertations Abstracts International. 86-11B.
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