Effects of complex magnetic ripple on fast ions in JFT-2M ferritic insert experiments
K. Shinohara 1), H. Kawashima 1), K. Tsuzuki 1), K. Urata 1), M. Sato 1), H. Ogawa 1), K. Kamiya 1), H. Sasao 1), H. Kimura 1), S. Kasai 1), Y. Kusama 1), Y. Miura 1), K. Tobita 1), D. S. Darrow 2), the JFT-2M Group 1)
1) Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI), Tokai-mura, Japan
2) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), Princeton, USA
Abstract.
In JFT-2M, the ferritic steel plates (FPs) were installed inside the vacuum vessel all over the vacuum vessel, which is named Ferritic Inside Wall (FIW), as the third step of the Advanced Material Tokamak Experiment (AMTEX) program. A toroidal field ripple was reduced, however the magnetic field structure has become the complex ripple structure with a non-periodic feature in the toroidal direction because of the existence of other components and ports that limit the periodic installation of FPs. Under the complex magnetic ripple, we investigated its effect on the heat flux to the first wall due to the fast ion loss. The small heat flux was observed as the result of the reduced magnetic ripple by FIW. Additional FPs were also installed outside the vacuum vessel to produce the localized larger ripple. The small ripple trapped loss was observed when the shallow ripple well exist in the poloidal cross section, and the large ripple trapped loss was observed when the ripple well hollow out the plasma region deeply. The experimental results were almost consistent with the newly developed Fully three Dimensional magnetic field Orbit-Following Monte-Carlo (F3D OFMC) code including the three dimensional complex structure of the toroidal field ripple and the non-axisymmetric first wall geometry. By using F3D OFMC, we investigated the effect on the ripple trapped loss of the localized larger ripple produced by FPs in detail. The ripple well structure, e.g. the thickness of the ripple well, is important for ripple trapped loss in complex magnetic ripple rather than the value defined at one position in a poloidal cross section.