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Hayashi, Nobuhiko; Aiba, Nobuyuki; Takizuka, Tomonori*; Oyama, Naoyuki
Contributions to Plasma Physics, 54(4-6), p.599 - 604, 2014/06
Times Cited Count:0 Percentile:0.01(Physics, Fluids & Plasmas)Luce, T. C.*; Challis, C. D.*; Ide, Shunsuke; Joffrin, E.*; Kamada, Yutaka; Politzer, P. A.*; Schweinzer, J.*; Sips, A. C. C.*; Stober, J.*; Giruzzi, G.*; et al.
Nuclear Fusion, 54(1), p.013015_1 - 013015_15, 2013/12
Times Cited Count:29 Percentile:83.75(Physics, Fluids & Plasmas)Hayashi, Nobuhiko; Aiba, Nobuyuki; Takizuka, Tomonori*; Oyama, Naoyuki
Nuclear Fusion, 53(12), p.123009_1 - 123009_10, 2013/12
Times Cited Count:6 Percentile:26.33(Physics, Fluids & Plasmas)Urano, Hajime; Takizuka, Tomonori*; Aiba, Nobuyuki; Kikuchi, Mitsuru; Nakano, Tomohide; Fujita, Takaaki; Oyama, Naoyuki; Kamada, Yutaka; Hayashi, Nobuhiko; JT-60 Team
Nuclear Fusion, 53(8), p.083003_1 - 083003_8, 2013/08
Times Cited Count:26 Percentile:78.58(Physics, Fluids & Plasmas)Dependence of heat transport, edge pedestal and confinement on isotopic composition was investigated in conventional H-mode plasmas. Identical profiles for the electron density, electron temperature, and ion temperature were obtained for hydrogen and deuterium plasmas, whereas the required power clearly increased for hydrogen, which resulted in reduction of heat diffusivity for deuterium. The inverse of the ion-temperature-gradient (ITG) scale length which is required for a given ion heat diffusivity increased by a factor of approximately 1.2 for deuterium compared with that for hydrogen.
Matsunaga, Go; Aiba, Nobuyuki; Shinohara, Koji; Asakura, Nobuyuki; Isayama, Akihiko; Oyama, Naoyuki; JT-60 Team
Nuclear Fusion, 53(7), p.073046_1 - 073046_9, 2013/06
Times Cited Count:4 Percentile:17.82(Physics, Fluids & Plasmas)Isayama, Akihiko; Asakura, Nobuyuki; Hayashi, Nobuhiko; Shinohara, Koji; Honda, Mitsuru; Oyama, Naoyuki
Purazuma, Kaku Yugo Gakkai-Shi, 89(6), p.430 - 433, 2013/06
no abstracts in English
Takizuka, Tomonori*; Oyama, Naoyuki; Fukuda, Takeshi*
Fusion Science and Technology, 63(1T), p.64 - 69, 2013/05
Times Cited Count:2 Percentile:18.71(Nuclear Science & Technology)Edge localized mode (ELM) must be eliminated which enhances the erosion of divertor plates in the H-mode operation of tokamak reactors. Suppression of ELM has been experimentally achieved by the resonant magnetic perturbation (RMP) with multipartite coils. In a DEMO reactor with strong neutron flux, however, it is desired the coils near the first wall not to be put in. We propose an innovative concept of the RMP for tokamak DEMO reactors without installing coils but inserting ferritic steels of the helical configuration. Helically perturbed magnetic field is naturally formed in the axisymmetric toroidal magnetic field through the helical ferritic steel inserts (FSIs). The perturbation amplitude in the plasma pedestal region can easily be set above several 10 of the toroidal field strength in the DEMO reactor condition, which is enough for the RMP to suppress ELM.
Kasada, Ryuta*; Goto, Takuya*; Fujioka, Shinsuke*; Hiwatari, Ryoji*; Oyama, Naoyuki; Tanigawa, Hiroyasu; Miyazawa, Junichi*; Young Scientists Special Interest Group on Fusion Reactor Realization*
Purazuma, Kaku Yugo Gakkai-Shi, 89(4), p.193 - 198, 2013/04
Japanese young researchers who have interest in realizing fusion reactor have analyzed Technology Readiness Levels (TRL) in Young Scientists Special Interest Group on Fusion Reactor Realization. In this report, brief introduction to TRL assessment and a view of TRL assessment against fusion reactor projects conducting in Japan.
Hayashi, Nobuhiko; Aiba, Nobuyuki; Takizuka, Tomonori*; Oyama, Naoyuki
Proceedings of 24th IAEA Fusion Energy Conference (FEC 2012) (CD-ROM), 8 Pages, 2013/03
Urano, Hajime; Takizuka, Tomonori*; Kikuchi, Mitsuru; Nakano, Tomohide; Fujita, Takaaki; Oyama, Naoyuki; Kamada, Yutaka; Hayashi, Nobuhiko; JT-60 Team
Proceedings of 24th IAEA Fusion Energy Conference (FEC 2012) (CD-ROM), 8 Pages, 2013/01
Dependence of heat transport on isotopic composition is investigated in conventional H-mode plasmas for the application to ITER. The identical profiles of , and are obtained for hydrogen and deuterium plasmas while the required power becomes clearly larger for hydrogen, resulting in the reduction of the heat diffusivity for deuterium. The result of the identical temperature profiles in spite of different heating power suggests that the characteristics of heat conduction differs essentially between hydrogen and deuterium even at the same scale length of temperature gradient. On the other hand, the edge stability is improved by increased total regardless of the difference of the isotropic composition.
Oyama, Naoyuki; Urano, Hajime; Shinohara, Koji; Honda, Mitsuru; Takizuka, Tomonori; Hayashi, Nobuhiko; Kamada, Yutaka; JT-60 Team
Nuclear Fusion, 52(11), p.114013_1 - 114013_9, 2012/11
Times Cited Count:4 Percentile:17.82(Physics, Fluids & Plasmas)Effects of local toroidal field (TF) ripple due to test blanket modules (TBMs) for ITER on radial transport of thermal ions are investigated using fully three-dimensional magnetic field orbit following Monte Carlo (F3D-OFMC) code. The simulation under ITER plasma condition indicates that the additional losses caused by the localized TF ripple due to TBMs linearly increase with number of TBMs. When the amplitude of local TF ripple in one TBM port is increased, on the other hand, the additional losses increase quickly. A comparison of the number of lost particles suggests that a condition with three TBM ports corresponds to 1.7 times of ripple amplitude at one TBM port.
Aiba, Nobuyuki; Oyama, Naoyuki
Nuclear Fusion, 52(11), p.114002_1 - 114002_8, 2012/11
Times Cited Count:16 Percentile:56.93(Physics, Fluids & Plasmas)In this paper, we developed a simplified model that is used for the MHD stability analysis with the kinetic effects, and applied this to the numerical analysis of small amplitude ELM, called grassy ELM. As the result, we found that the stabilizing effect due to the ion diamagnetic drift can be canceled by taking into account the plasma compressibility and the electron diamagnetic drift, and this cancelation moves the stability boundary of small ELM closer to the ideal ballooning stability boundary. This trend is consistent with the experimental results of JT-60U grassy ELM plasma, and implies that the short-wavelength electromagnetic instability like ideal ballooning mode is thought as the origin of grassy ELM.
Urano, Hajime; Takizuka, Tomonori*; Fujita, Takaaki; Kamada, Yutaka; Nakano, Tomohide; Oyama, Naoyuki; JT-60 Team
Nuclear Fusion, 52(11), p.114021_1 - 114021_10, 2012/11
Times Cited Count:19 Percentile:64.74(Physics, Fluids & Plasmas)Energy confinement properties for hydrogen and deuterium H-mode plasmas are investigated. The stored energy for deuterium becomes larger approximately by a factor of 1.7-2.0 than that for hydrogen at a given heating power. When the stored energy is fixed for both cases, the required power differs roughly a factor of and the identical spatial profiles of electron density , electron temperature and ion temperature are obtained. Despite almost the same power crossing the separatrix, type-I ELM frequency for hydrogen becomes approximately in double from that for deuterium. The pedestal pressure differs approximately by a factor of for the cases between hydrogen and deuterium plasmas at a given absorbed power. The relation between and is almost identical regardless of the difference of the isotropic composition.
Kamiya, Kensaku; Honda, Mitsuru; Miyato, Naoaki; Urano, Hajime; Yoshida, Maiko; Sakamoto, Yoshiteru; Matsunaga, Go; Oyama, Naoyuki; Koide, Yoshihiko; Kamada, Yutaka; et al.
Nuclear Fusion, 52(11), p.114010_1 - 114010_12, 2012/10
Times Cited Count:10 Percentile:40.96(Physics, Fluids & Plasmas)Depending on the direction of the external tangential momentum input, substantial changes in not only toroidal but also poloidal flows for the carbon impurity ions are observed at around the -well region. The shear in the edge becomes wider in the co-NBI case, while the edge -well becomes deeper in the counter-NBI case.
Urano, Hajime; Oyama, Naoyuki; Kamiya, Kensaku; Aiba, Nobuyuki; Kamada, Yutaka; Fujita, Takaaki; JT-60 Team
Nuclear Fusion, 52(10), p.103012_1 - 103012_7, 2012/10
Times Cited Count:2 Percentile:8.82(Physics, Fluids & Plasmas)The unified effect of counter toroidal rotation and heating power on type-I ELMs was investigated in JT-60U tokamak. ELM frequency increased monotonically together with the power across the sepratrix for all the cases of tangential NBs. However, dependence of on was explicitly stronger than a proportional relation when the perpendicular NBs were injected. The toroidal rotation velocity at the H-mode pedestal shifted continuously in counter direction when the perpendicular NBs were applied. At fixed values of , increased clearly in proportion to .
Urano, Hajime; Takizuka, Tomonori*; Kikuchi, Mitsuru; Nakano, Tomohide; Hayashi, Nobuhiko; Oyama, Naoyuki; Kamada, Yutaka
Physical Review Letters, 109(12), p.125001_1 - 125001_5, 2012/09
Times Cited Count:27 Percentile:77.29(Physics, Multidisciplinary)The dependence of the ion temperature gradient scale length on the hydrogen isotope mass was examined in conventional -mode plasmas in JT-60U tokamak. While identical profiles for density and temperature were obtained for hydrogen and deuterium plasmas, the ion conductive heat flux necessary for hydrogen to sustain the same thermal stored energy was two times that required for deuterium, resulting in a clearly higher ion heat diffusivity for hydrogen at the same ion temperature gradient scale length. The ion temperature gradient scale length for deuterium is less than that for hydrogen at a given ion heat diffusivity.
Oyama, Naoyuki; Shinohara, Koji; Isayama, Akihiko; Yoshida, Maiko; Kamiya, Kensaku
Purazuma, Kaku Yugo Gakkai-Shi, 88(5), p.282 - 285, 2012/05
no abstracts in English
Yoshida, Maiko; Sakamoto, Yoshiteru; Honda, Mitsuru; Kamada, Yutaka; Takenaga, Hidenobu; Oyama, Naoyuki; Urano, Hajime; JT-60 Team
Nuclear Fusion, 52(2), p.023024_1 - 023024_9, 2012/02
Times Cited Count:13 Percentile:52.32(Physics, Fluids & Plasmas)Relation between the toroidal rotation velocities in the core and edge regions has been investigated in H-mode plasmas with small external torque input from the viewpoint of momentum transport. The toroidal rotation velocity in the core region gradually varies on a timescale after a rapid change in the toroidal rotation velocity in the edge region at the L-H transition. In steady state, a linear correlation between the core- and edge-rotation is observed in H-mode plasmas when the ion pressure gradient is small. The rotation profiles with a large have been reproduced in the core region by adopting a residual stress term proposed in this paper. Parameter dependencies of the edge-rotation are investigated at a constant ripple loss power, ripple amplitude and the plasma current. A reduction in the CTR-rotation is observed with decreasing the ion temperature gradient. Here CTR refers in the counter- direction.
Urano, Hajime; Takizuka, Tomonori*; Kikuchi, Mitsuru; Nakano, Tomohide; Fujita, Takaaki; Hayashi, Nobuhiko; Oyama, Naoyuki; Kamada, Yutaka; JT-60 Team
Europhysics Conference Abstracts (Internet), 36F, p.P1.016_1 - P1.016_4, 2012/00
Energy confinement properties for hydrogen and deuterium H-mode plasmas were examined in JT-60U. The energy confinement time became larger by a factor of 1.2-1.3 for deuterium than for hydrogen at a given . When the plasma energy was fixed, the profiles of density and temperature became identical for both cases while higher heating power was required for hydrogen. The ion conductive heat flux for hydrogen became approximately two times that for deuterium. Hence, the ion heat diffusivity for hydrogen was higher than for deuterium. It was found that the ion-temperature-gradient scale length became smaller by a factor of 1.2 for deuterium than for hydrogen.
Urano, Hajime; Saibene, G.*; Oyama, Naoyuki; Parail, V.*; de Vries, P.*; Sartori, R.*; Kamada, Yutaka; Kamiya, Kensaku; Loarte, A.*; Lnnroth, J.*; et al.
Nuclear Fusion, 51(11), p.113004_1 - 113004_10, 2011/11
Times Cited Count:10 Percentile:41.11(Physics, Fluids & Plasmas)The effect of TF ripple on the edge pedestal characteristics are examined in JET and JT-60U. By the installation of ferritic inserts, TF ripple was reduced from to in JT-60U. In JET, TF ripple was varied from to by feeding different currents to TF coils. The pedestal pressure was similar with reduced ripple in JT-60U. In JET, no clear difference of the pedestal characteristics was also observed. The edge toroidal rotation clearly decreased in counter direction by increased TF ripple. However, in JT-60U, the ELM frequency decreased by and the increased ELM loss power by with reduced ripple. In JET, ELM frequency increases only slightly with increased TF ripple. From this inter-machine experiment, TF ripple less than does not strongly affect the pedestal pressure. The effect of TF ripple on pedestal characteristics at lower collisionality close to ITER should be investigated as a next step study.