Mitigation of runaway electrons by electrostatic wave-particle interaction
Abstract
Runaway electron (RE) is a kinetic phenomenon that undermines the safe operation of tokamaks. We conduct a numerical study on the mitigation of REs based on a wave-particle interaction scheme. Performing 1D particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations, we demonstrate energy reduction of REs via the inverse Landau damping. The velocity distribution of REs undergoes velocity space diffusion and damping due to the wave while the thermal electrons nearly sustain their initial distribution. Furthermore, the electron holes emerge accompanying a transition from a linear wave-particle interaction to a nonlinear phase. Finally, we discuss the nonlinear effect of the electron hole and phase mixing.
This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea under BK21+ program, Grant No. NRF-2017M1A7A1A03064231 and Grant No. NRF-2019M1A7A1A 03088456.- Publication:
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APS Division of Plasma Physics Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- 2020
- Bibcode:
- 2020APS..DPPG16010K