Effect of fast-ion loss on momentum transport in tokamak plasmas with toroidal field ripples

Honda, Mitsuru; Takizuka, Tomonori; Fukuyama, Atsushi*; Ozeki, Takahisa; Yoshida, Maiko

One-dimensional transport code, TASK/TX, has been developed to study the plasma rotation and the radial electric field in tokamak plasmas. The code simultaneously solves a set of the two-fluid equations coupled with Maxwell's equations. It is observed in JT-60U that the reduction of the toroidal field ripple by installing ferritic steel tiles tends to rotate the plasma in the co direction because the counter rotation caused by the fast-ion loss is suppressed. A model of the ripple loss has been made to study the behavior of the beam ions affected by ripple. Numerical solutions reproduce the reduction of the co-rotation with co and perpendicular NBIs as the ripple amplitude increases. The toroidal rotation varies with the ripple amplitude at constant pressure gradient, as is observed in JT-60U, and the radial electric field also changes near the peripheral. This implies the change of the toroidal rotation strongly relates to that of through the radial force balance.