• DOI:10.1063/1.5108693
• Corpus ID: 146121075

Numerical study of transition between even and odd toroidal Alfvén eigenmodes on EAST

@article{Hou2019NumericalSO,
  title={Numerical study of transition between even and odd toroidal Alfv{\'e}n eigenmodes on EAST},
  author={Yawei Hou and Charlson C. Kim and Ping Zhu and Zhihui Zou and Youjun Hu and Xingting Yan and the Nimrod Team},
  journal={Physics of Plasmas},
  year={2019}
}

• Yawei Hou, Charlson C. Kim, +4 authors the Nimrod Team
• Published 6 May 2019
• Physics
• Physics of Plasmas

Linear simulations of toriodal Alfven eigenmodes (TAEs) driven by energetic particles (EPs) on EAST (Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak) are performed using the hybrid-kinetic MHD (HK-MHD) model implemented in NIMROD code. The EAST equilibrium is reconstructed using the EFIT code based on experimental measurement. The "slowing down" distribution is adopted for modeling the equilibrium distribution of the energetic ions from the deuterium neutral beam injection on EAST. The frequency, the dominant poloidal mode number, the radial location and the detailed 2D mode structure of the TAE/RSAE/EPM modes are consistent between the eigenvalue analysis and the NIMROD simulation. As the $\beta$ fraction of EP increases, a transition between even and odd TAEs occurs, along with that between the ballooning and anti-ballooning mode structures. When the $\beta$ fraction of EP is close to the transition threshold, both types of TAEs coexist.