Scaling of H-mode edge pedestal pressure for a Type-I ELM regime in tokamaks

Sugihara, Masayoshi; Mukhovatov, V.*; Polevoi, A.*; Shimada, Michiya

Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 45(9), p.L55 - L62, 2003/09

https://doi.org/10.1088/0741-3335/45/9/101

Improvement of the scaling of H-mode edge pedestal pressure for a Type-I ELM regime based on a simple analytical formula is achieved by introducing shaping factors into the scaling. The physics basis of these shaping factors is an enhancement of the critical pressure gradient by the magnetic well. With increasing the magnetic well, a high toroidal mode number ideal ballooning mode and peeling mode decouple and critical gradient is determined by intermediate mode number, which results in significant enhancement of the critical pressure gradient. The improved scaling can reproduce the pedestal pressure reasonably well for ASDEX-U, JET, DIII-D and JT-60U Type-I ELmy data archived in the ITER pedestal database.