Numerical investigation of the fishbone instability effect on thermal pressure in EAST tokamak

Zhenzhen Ren, Wei Shen, Guoqiang Li, Muquan Wu, Jinhong Yang, Weihua Wang

AIP ADVANCES(2022)

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Abstract
The formation of the internal transport barrier (ITB) is observed after the emergence of fishbone instabilities on the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST). The kinetic-magnetohydrodynamic hybrid code M3D-K has been applied to investigate the fishbone instability effect on thermal pressure based on EAST Shot No. 71320. Without fluid nonlinearity, it is found that when the central gradient of the total pressure profile is above a threshold, the thermal pressure profile becomes more peaked due to the nonlinear evolution of the fishbone instability, which confirms that the fishbone instability can transport the thermal pressure radially inward and promote the ITB formation. When fluid nonlinearity is included, the poloidal zonal flow prevents the thermal pressure to become more peaked in the core region. As the neoclassical effect can cause the damping of the poloidal zonal flow and is neglected in our simulation, the actual promotion of ITB formation due to the fishbone instability is expected to be between that without fluid nonlinearity and with fluid nonlinearity. (C) 2022 Author(s).
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fishbone instability effect,thermal pressure
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