Minimal ad-hoc screening coefficient from RMP x-point lobe-structures in MAST

Abstract

Resonant Magnetic Perturbations (RMPs) have successfully been employed to mitigate ELMs by changing the pedestal pressure profile. Recently visual x-point camera data on the MAST tokamak was able to observe the creation of 3D tangle structures for various toroidal mode number applications with the RMP coils. By comparing the 2D images of the lobe structures with vacuum calculations of the tangles we can find the minimum needed plasma response to the applied RMPs. Using field line tracing to investigate whether a field line is outside or inside the experimental lobe structure, we can adjust the ’effective’ radial magnetic field perturbation on that a flux surface using a quick-sort algorithm until the field line remains inside the experimental observed lobe-structure. This allows us to quickly calculate a minimum ad-hoc screening that can be compared with actual complicated plasma response models.

Isabelle Lee

PhD Student

2nd year PhD student at USC, interested in Emergence, Interpretability, and Reasoning.