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Journal Articles

Self-organization of zonal flows and isotropic eddies in toroidal electron temperature gradient driven turbulence

Kawai, Chika*; Idomura, Yasuhiro; Ogawa, Yuichi*; Yamada, Hiroshi*

Physics of Plasmas, 27(8), p.082302_1 - 082302_11, 2020/08

 Times Cited Count:2 Percentile:6.24(Physics, Fluids & Plasmas)

Self-organization in the toroidal electron temperature gradient driven (ETG) turbulence is investigated based on a global gyrokinetic model in a weak magnetic shear configuration. Because of global profile effects, toroidal ETG modes with higher toroidal mode number n are excited at the outer magnetic surfaces, leading to strong linear wave dispersion. The resulting anisotropic wave turbulence boundary and the inverse energy cascade generate the self-organization of zonal flows, which is the unique mechanism in the global gyrokinetic model. The self-organization is confirmed both in the decaying turbulence initialized by random noises and in the toroidal ETG turbulence. It is also shown that the self-organization process generates zonal flows and isotropic eddies depending on a criterion parameter, which is determined by the ion to electron temperature ratio and the turbulence intensity.

Journal Articles

Neutron spectrum change with thermal moderator temperature in a compact electron accelerator-driven neutron source and its effects on spectroscopic neutron transmission imaging

Ishikawa, Hirotaku*; Kai, Tetsuya; Sato, Hirotaka*; Kamiyama, Takashi*

Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 56(2), p.221 - 227, 2019/02

 Times Cited Count:3 Percentile:31.36(Nuclear Science & Technology)

Journal Articles

Effect of nitrogen concentration on nano-structure and high-temperature strength of 9Cr-ODS steel

Oka, Hiroshi; Tanno, Takashi; Otsuka, Satoshi; Yano, Yasuhide; Kaito, Takeji

Nuclear Materials and Energy (Internet), 16, p.230 - 237, 2018/08

 Times Cited Count:4 Percentile:38.11(Nuclear Science & Technology)

Journal Articles

Impact of plasma parameter on self-organization of electron temperature gradient driven turbulence

Kawai, Chika*; Idomura, Yasuhiro; Maeyama, Shinya*; Ogawa, Yuichi*

Physics of Plasmas, 24(4), p.042303_1 - 042303_13, 2017/04

AA2017-0111.pdf:7.14MB

 Times Cited Count:2 Percentile:10.49(Physics, Fluids & Plasmas)

Self-organization in the slab electron temperature gradient driven (ETG) turbulence is investigated based on gyrokinetic simulations and the Hasegawa-Mima (HM) equation. The scale and the anisotropy of self-organized turbulent structures vary depending on the Rhines scale and the characteristic scale given by the adiabatic response term in the HM equation. The former is determined by competition between the linear wave dispersion and the nonlinear turbulent cascade, while the latter is given as the scale, at which the turbulent cascade is impeded. These scales are controlled by plasma parameters such as the density and temperature gradient, and the temperature ratio of ion to electron. It is found that depending on the plasma parameters, the ETG turbulence shows either isotropic turbulence or zonal flows, which give significantly different transport levels. Although the modulational instability excites zonal modes regardless of the plasma parameters, the final turbulent structure is determined by the self-organization process.

Journal Articles

Effect of thermo-mechanical treatments on nano-structure of 9Cr-ODS steel

Oka, Hiroshi; Tanno, Takashi; Otsuka, Satoshi; Yano, Yasuhide; Uwaba, Tomoyuki; Kaito, Takeji; Onuma, Masato*

Nuclear Materials and Energy (Internet), 9, p.346 - 352, 2016/12

 Times Cited Count:21 Percentile:88.55(Nuclear Science & Technology)

Journal Articles

Saturation mechanism of decaying ion temperature gradient driven turbulence with kinetic electrons

Idomura, Yasuhiro

Plasma and Fusion Research (Internet), 11, p.2403006_1 - 2403006_5, 2016/02

BB2015-1300.pdf:0.58MB

In this work, we address saturation mechanisms of decaying turbulence induced by the ion temperature gradient driven trapped electron mode. In the simulation, turbulent transport is quenched in the nonlinear quasi-steady phase, where temperature profiles exceeding linear critical temperature gradient parameters are formed. This kind of nonlinear critical temperature gradient is sustained by radial electric fields with strong shear, which is generated by corrugated density profiles. It is found that the density profile structure is related to electrons transport near low order mode rational surfaces, where non-adiabatic response of passing electrons becomes important.

Journal Articles

Global profile effects and structure formations in toroidal electron temperature gradient driven turbulence

Idomura, Yasuhiro; Tokuda, Shinji; Kishimoto, Yasuaki

Nuclear Fusion, 45(12), p.1571 - 1581, 2005/12

 Times Cited Count:39 Percentile:74.86(Physics, Fluids & Plasmas)

Using a global gyrokinetic toroidal particle code, the toroidal electron temperature gradient driven (ETG) turbulence is studied in positive and reversed shear tokamaks. In the nolinear turbulent state, the ETG turbulence in the positive and reversed shear configurations show quite different structure formations. In the positive shear configuration, the ETG turbulence is dominated by streamers which have a ballooning type structure, and the electron temperature $$T_e$$ profile is quickly relaxed to the marginally stable state in a turbulent time scale. In the reversed shear configuration, quasi-steady zonal flows are produced in the regative shear region, while the positive shear region is characterized by streamers. Accordingly, the electron thermal diffusivity $$chi_e$$ has a gap structure across the $$q_{min}$$ surface, and the $$T_e$$ gradinet is sustained above the marginal value for a long time in the quasi-steady phase. The results suggest a stiffness of the $$T_e$$ profile in positive shear tokamaks, and a possibility of the Te transport barrier in reversed shear tokamaks.

Journal Articles

Experimental study on spatial uniformity of H$$^{-}$$ ion beam in a large negative ion source

Hanada, Masaya; Seki, Takayoshi*; Takado, Naoyuki*; Inoue, Takashi; Morishita, Takatoshi; Mizuno, Takatoshi*; Hatayama, Akiyoshi*; Imai, Tsuyoshi*; Kashiwagi, Mieko; Sakamoto, Keishi; et al.

Fusion Engineering and Design, 74(1-4), p.311 - 317, 2005/11

 Times Cited Count:7 Percentile:44.84(Nuclear Science & Technology)

no abstracts in English

Journal Articles

$$delta f$$ simulations of microturbulence

Idomura, Yasuhiro

Purazuma, Kaku Yugo Gakkai-Shi, 81(8), p.581 - 592, 2005/08

A gyrokinetic particle simulation is a powerful tool in studying tokamak microturbulence. A $$delta f$$ method, which is a standard method in recent gyrokinetic particle simulations, dramatically improved an efficiency of a particle simulation by reducing a particle noise, and full torus turbulence simulations are enabled. In this paper, the $$delta f$$ method is reviewed, and issues in full torus gyrokinetic particle simulations are discussed.

Journal Articles

Improvement of Thomson scattering diagnostics using stimulated-Brillouin-scattering-based phase conjugate mirrors

Hatae, Takaki; Nakatsuka, Masahiro*; Yoshida, Hidetsugu*

Purazuma, Kaku Yugo Gakkai-Shi, 80(10), p.870 - 882, 2004/10

A high performance phase conjugate mirror by stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS-PCM) is applied to Thomson scattering diagnostics in JT-60U for the first time. To improve the measurement performance, two developments were performed with SBS-PCM. First, we developed a new optical design to provide a double-pass scattering scheme with SBS-PCM. A laser beam passing through the plasma is reflected by the SBS-PCM, and a reflected beam returned back through the same path as coming one by the phase conjugate effect, and passed through the plasma again. The double path Thomson scattering scheme demonstrated in JT-60U plasma that a factor of 1.6 increase of the scattered light in contrast with single-pass scattering. Second, an improvement of the output power of YAG laser system using the SBS-PCM was performed. As a result, average power was increased over 8 times in contrast with conventional system, and was achieved up to 368 W (7.4 J $$times$$ 50 Hz). A multi-pass Thomson scattering scheme is also proposed based on the results of double-pass scattering.

Journal Articles

Gyrokinetic simulations of tokamak micro-turbulence including kinetic electron effects

Idomura, Yasuhiro; Tokuda, Shinji; Kishimoto, Yasuaki

Journal of Plasma and Fusion Research SERIES, Vol.6, p.17 - 72, 2004/00

A global gyrokinetic toroidal particle code for a 3D nonlinear simulation (GT3D) has been developed for a comprehensive study of the ion and electron anomalous transport arising from the ion temperature gradient driven - trapped electron mode (ITG-TEM) turbulence in tokamak plasmas. In the preliminary linear ITG-TEM calculations, basic properties of ITG-TEM modes are confirmed. Adding trapped electrons not only increases the growth rate of the ITG mode, but also produces another unstable electron mode, the TEM mode, which is unstable even at $$eta_i = 0$$. The dominant mode changes from the ITG mode to the TEM mode depending on $$k_theta$$ and $$eta_i$$. In linear benchmark calculations using Cyclone base case parameters, eigenfrequencies obtained from GT3D, GTC(PPPL-UCI) and FULL(PPPL) show reasonable quantitative agreement.

Journal Articles

Anomalous shift of Curie temperature in iron-nickel invar alloys by high-energy heavy ion irradiation

Iwase, Akihiro; Hamatani, Yutaro*; Mukumoto, Yoshinori*; Ishikawa, Norito; Chimi, Yasuhiro; Kambara, Tadashi*; M$"u$ller, C.*; Neumann, R.*; Ono, Fumihisa*

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research B, 209(1-4), p.323 - 328, 2003/08

 Times Cited Count:20 Percentile:77.16(Instruments & Instrumentation)

Fe=Ni Invar alloy is irradiated with GeV Xe and U ions at room temperature. By the irradiation, the Curie temperature of the soecimens increases, which is correlated with the electronic stopping power. This phenomenon can be explained as due to the lattice expansion and/or the local increase in Ni concentration.

JAEA Reports

Evaluation of hydrogen permeation of fuel cladding materials under low energy plasma

Ogawa, Hiroaki*; Kiuchi, Kiyoshi

JAERI-Research 2002-037, 48 Pages, 2002/12

JAERI-Research-2002-037.pdf:2.57MB

The difference in hydrogen permeation among candidate cladding materials such as 25Cr-35Ni stainless steel, Nb liner and reference materials such as 18Cr-8Ni SS, and Zr of Zircaloy base metal were evaluated by low energy plasma permeation simulated to hydrogen excited by heavy neutron irradiation. RF excitation source was arranged for the experimental apparatus in cooperating with temperature and bias control. Comparing with the thermodynamic gas driven permeation (GDP) in the same hydrogen pressure, the hydrogen permeation rate by the plasma driven permeation (PDP) was markedly accelerated at low to medium temperature range. The temperature dependency showed a knick at around 530K due to hydrogen-defect interactions. Comparing with Zr, Nb showed the high hydrogen solubility without the degradation by hydrate formation that is required to a getter material. The difference in PDP among candidates was analyzed with a new dissolution model for hydrogen.

JAEA Reports

Study on high-performance fuel cladding materials; Joint research report in FY 1999-2000 (Phase 1) (Joint research)

Kiuchi, Kiyoshi; Ioka, Ikuo; Tachibana, Katsumi; Suzuki, Tomio; Fukaya, Kiyoshi*; Inohara, Yasuto*; Kambara, Shozo; Kuroda, Yuji*; Miyamoto, Satoshi*; Ogura, Kazutomo*

JAERI-Research 2002-008, 63 Pages, 2002/03

JAERI-Research-2002-008.pdf:7.85MB

no abstracts in English

Journal Articles

An Examination of the estimation method for the specific heat of TRU dioxide; Evaluation with PuO$$_{2}$$

Serizawa, Hiroyuki; Arai, Yasuo

Journal of Alloys and Compounds, 312(1-2), p.257 - 264, 2001/00

 Times Cited Count:11 Percentile:57.7(Chemistry, Physical)

no abstracts in English

Journal Articles

Very high electron temperature diagnostics using combined ruby and YAG laser Thomson scattering systems in JT-60U

Hatae, Takaki; Naito, Osamu

Proceedings of 10th International Symposium on Laser-Aided Plasma Diagnostics, p.160 - 166, 2001/00

In recent strong electron heating experiments in JT-60U, it seems that central ${it T$_{e}$}$ rises above $$sim$$15 keV which is measured by Ruby laser and YAG laser Thomson scattering systems. However, error bars are relatively large and it is difficult to measure the very high ${it T$_{e}$}$ beyond $$sim$$15 keV with high accuracy because the electron temperature region exceeds that of the original design. To improve the measurement performance in very high ${it T$_{e}$}$, we have tried the combination of existing Ruby laser system and YAG laser system. From simulations, it was found that (1) changing the form of the spectrum with the other laser is an effective way for very high ${it T$_{e}$}$ measurement, (2) furthermore the combined system in YAG laser scattering is well optimized at ${it T$_{e}$}$ $$sim$$ 20keV and relative error is reduced significantly compared with original system.

Journal Articles

Characterization and evaluation studies on some JAERI dosimetry systems

Kojima, Takuji; Sunaga, Hiromi; Tachibana, Hiroyuki; Takizawa, Haruki; Tanaka, Ryuichi

IAEA-TECDOC-156, p.91 - 98, 2000/06

no abstracts in English

Journal Articles

New trend of radiation application to polymer modification; Irradiation in oxygen free atmosphere and at elevated temperature

Seguchi, Tadao

Radiation Physics and Chemistry, 57, p.367 - 371, 2000/00

 Times Cited Count:29 Percentile:85.01(Chemistry, Physical)

no abstracts in English

Journal Articles

Multilaser and high spatially resolved multipoint Thomson scattering system for the JT-60U tokamak

Yoshida, Hidetoshi; Naito, Osamu; Yamashita, Osamu; Kitamura, Shigeru; *; *; *; *; Hatae, Takaki; Nagashima, Akira; et al.

Review of Scientific Instruments, 70(1), p.751 - 754, 1999/01

 Times Cited Count:15 Percentile:68.21(Instruments & Instrumentation)

no abstracts in English

Journal Articles

A Compact and high repetitive photodiode array detector for the JT-60U Thomson scattering diagnostic

Yoshida, Hidetoshi; Naito, Osamu; *; Kitamura, Shigeru; Hatae, Takaki; Nagashima, Akira

Review of Scientific Instruments, 70(1), p.747 - 750, 1999/01

 Times Cited Count:4 Percentile:38.4(Instruments & Instrumentation)

no abstracts in English

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