Toroidal and slab ETG instability dominance in the linear spectrum of JET-ILW pedestals
Local linear gyrokinetic simulations show that electron temperature gradient (ETG) instabilities are the fastest growing modes for $k_y \rho_i \gtrsim 0.1$ in the steep gradient region for a JET pedestal discharge (92174) where the electron temperature gradient is steeper than the ion temperature gr...
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| author | Parra, FI Roach, CM Giroud, C Dorland, WD Hatch, DR Barnes, M Hillesheim, J Aiba, N Ball, J Ivanov, P |
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| description | Local linear gyrokinetic simulations show that electron temperature gradient (ETG) instabilities are the fastest growing modes for $k_y \rho_i \gtrsim 0.1$ in the steep gradient region for a JET pedestal discharge (92174) where the electron temperature gradient is steeper than the ion temperature gradient. Here, $k_y$ is the wavenumber in the direction perpendicular to both the magnetic field and the radial direction, and $\rho_i$ is the ion gyroradius. At $k_y \rho_i \gtrsim 1$, the fastest growing mode is often a novel type of toroidal ETG instability. This toroidal ETG mode is driven at scales as large as $k_y \rho_i \sim (\rho_i/\rho_e) L_{Te} / R_0 \sim 1$ and at a sufficiently large radial wavenumber that electron finite Larmor radius effects become important; that is, $K_x \rho_e \sim 1$, where $K_x$ is the effective radial wavenumber. Here, $\rho_e$ is the electron gyroradius, $R_0$ is the major radius of the last closed flux surface, and $1/L_{Te}$ is an inverse length
proportional to the logarithmic gradient of the equilibrium electron temperature. The fastest growing toroidal ETG modes are often driven far away from the outboard midplane. In this equilibrium, ion temperature gradient instability is subdominant at all scales and kinetic ballooning modes are shown to be suppressed by $\mathbf{ E} \times \mathbf{ B} $ shear. ETG modes are very resilient to $\mathbf{ E} \times \mathbf{ B}$ shear. Heuristic quasilinear arguments suggest that the novel toroidal ETG instability is important for transport. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:073d72a7-090e-4924-9167-d9fccac87a3f2022-03-26T09:06:37ZToroidal and slab ETG instability dominance in the linear spectrum of JET-ILW pedestalsJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:073d72a7-090e-4924-9167-d9fccac87a3fEnglishSymplectic ElementsIOP Publishing2020Parra, FIRoach, CMGiroud, CDorland, WDHatch, DRBarnes, MHillesheim, JAiba, NBall, JIvanov, PLocal linear gyrokinetic simulations show that electron temperature gradient (ETG) instabilities are the fastest growing modes for $k_y \rho_i \gtrsim 0.1$ in the steep gradient region for a JET pedestal discharge (92174) where the electron temperature gradient is steeper than the ion temperature gradient. Here, $k_y$ is the wavenumber in the direction perpendicular to both the magnetic field and the radial direction, and $\rho_i$ is the ion gyroradius. At $k_y \rho_i \gtrsim 1$, the fastest growing mode is often a novel type of toroidal ETG instability. This toroidal ETG mode is driven at scales as large as $k_y \rho_i \sim (\rho_i/\rho_e) L_{Te} / R_0 \sim 1$ and at a sufficiently large radial wavenumber that electron finite Larmor radius effects become important; that is, $K_x \rho_e \sim 1$, where $K_x$ is the effective radial wavenumber. Here, $\rho_e$ is the electron gyroradius, $R_0$ is the major radius of the last closed flux surface, and $1/L_{Te}$ is an inverse length proportional to the logarithmic gradient of the equilibrium electron temperature. The fastest growing toroidal ETG modes are often driven far away from the outboard midplane. In this equilibrium, ion temperature gradient instability is subdominant at all scales and kinetic ballooning modes are shown to be suppressed by $\mathbf{ E} \times \mathbf{ B} $ shear. ETG modes are very resilient to $\mathbf{ E} \times \mathbf{ B}$ shear. Heuristic quasilinear arguments suggest that the novel toroidal ETG instability is important for transport. |
| spellingShingle | Parra, FI Roach, CM Giroud, C Dorland, WD Hatch, DR Barnes, M Hillesheim, J Aiba, N Ball, J Ivanov, P Toroidal and slab ETG instability dominance in the linear spectrum of JET-ILW pedestals |
| title | Toroidal and slab ETG instability dominance in the linear spectrum of JET-ILW pedestals |
| title_full | Toroidal and slab ETG instability dominance in the linear spectrum of JET-ILW pedestals |
| title_fullStr | Toroidal and slab ETG instability dominance in the linear spectrum of JET-ILW pedestals |
| title_full_unstemmed | Toroidal and slab ETG instability dominance in the linear spectrum of JET-ILW pedestals |
| title_short | Toroidal and slab ETG instability dominance in the linear spectrum of JET-ILW pedestals |
| title_sort | toroidal and slab etg instability dominance in the linear spectrum of jet ilw pedestals |
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