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Magneto-HydroDynamic活度和高能粒子--应用于β-阿尔芬本征模

Magneto-HydroDynamic activity and Energetic Particles - Application to Beta Alfven Eigenmodes

Christine Nguyen

摘要:

磁聚变研究的目标是提取聚变反应释放的能量,并由这些反应的产物携带,以几兆电子伏的能量释放。聚变能生产的可行性依赖于我们限制这些高能粒子的能力,同时保持热核等离子体在安全的操作条件下。为此目的,有必要了解并找到控制高能粒子与热核等离子体之间相互作用的方法。达到这两个目标是在博士期间进行的工作的一般动机。更具体地说,我们的重点是一种类型的不稳定性,β Alfven本征模(BAE),它可以由高能粒子驱动,并对高能粒子和热粒子的约束产生影响。在这项工作中,我们研究了BAE的特性分析,并推导出其色散关系和结构。接下来,我们分析了在高能粒子的存在下的模式的线性稳定性。首先,一个纯粹的线性描述,这使得有可能得到一个分析的线性判据BAE不稳定的高能粒子的存在。这一标准进行了比较,在博士学位期间的托雷-上托卡马克实验。其次,由于线性分析揭示了BAE稳定性的一些特征,这些特征受到强烈的非线性修改,因此提出了该模式的亚临界活动的可能性的问题。我们提出了一个简单的方案,使亚稳定模式的存在,验证分析和数值。这样的情况下被发现是相关的物理和规模表征BAE。

英文摘要:

The goal of magnetic fusion research is to extract the power released by fusion reactions and carried by the product of these reactions, liberated at energies of the order of a few MeV. The feasibility of fusion energy production relies on our ability to confine these energetic particles, while keeping the thermonuclear plasma in safe operating conditions. For that purpose, it is necessary to understand and find ways to control the interaction between energetic particles and the thermonuclear plasma. Reaching these two goals is the general motivation for the work conducted during the PhD. More specifically, our focus is on one type of instability, the Beta Alfven Eigenmode (BAE), which can be driven by energetic particles and impact on the confinement of both energetic and thermal particles. In this work, we study the characteristics of BAEs analytically and derive its dispersion relation and structure. Next, we analyze the linear stability of the mode in the presence of energetic particles. First, a purely linear description is used, which makes possible to get an analytical linear criterion for BAE destabilization in the presence of energetic particles. This criterion is compared with experiments conducted in the Tore-Supra tokamak during the PhD. Secondly, because the linear analysis reveals some features of the BAE stability which are subject to a strong nonlinear modification, the question is raised of the possibility of a sub-critical activity of the mode. We propose a simple scenario which makes possible the existence of meta-stable modes, verified analytically and numerically. Such a scenario is found to be relevant to the physics and scales characterizing BAEs.

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