Conventional and nonconventional global Alfvn eigenmodes in stellarators
Conventional and nonconventional global Alfvn eigenmodes in stellarators
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仿星器中的常规和非常规全局 Alfvn 本征模式
DOI:
10.1063/1.2789558
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发表时间:
2007
影响因子:
2.2
通讯作者:
O. P. Fesenyuk
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作者:
Y. Kolesnichenko;V. Lutsenko;A. Weller;A. Werner;Y. Yakovenko;J. Geiger;O. P. Fesenyuk
Conditions of the existence of the Global Alfven Eigenmodes (GAE) and Nonconventional Global Alfven Eigenmodes (NGAE) predicted for stellarators by Ya. I. Kolesnichenko et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 165004 (2005)] have been obtained. It is found that they depend on the nature of the rotational transform and that conditions for NGAE can be most easily satisfied in currentless stellarators. It is shown that the plasma compressibility may play an important role for the modes with the frequency about or less than that of the Toroidicity-induced Alfven Eigenmodes. It is found that features of the Alfven continuum in the vicinity of the k‖=0 radius (k‖ is the longitudinal wave number) can be very different, depending on a parameter which we refer to as “the sound parameter.” Specific calculations modeling low-frequency Alfven instabilities in the stellarator Wendelstein 7-AS [A. Weller et al., Phys. Plasmas 8, 931 (2001)] are carried out, which are in reasonable agreement with the observations. It is emphasized ...