中国物理B ›› 2020, Vol. 29 ›› Issue (6): 65204-065204.doi: 10.1088/1674-1056/ab84da

• PHYSICS OF GASES, PLASMAS, AND ELECTRIC DISCHARGES • 上一篇    下一篇

Tests of the real-time vertical growth rate calculation on EAST

Na-Na Bao(鲍娜娜), Yao Huang(黄耀), Jayson Barr, Zheng-Ping Luo(罗正平), Yue-Hang Wang(汪悦航), Shu-Liang Chen(陈树亮), Bing-Jia Xiao(肖炳甲), David Humphreys   

  1. 1 Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, China;
    2 University of Science & Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China;
    3 General Atomics, P. O. Box 85608, San Diego, CA 92186-5608, USA
  • 收稿日期:2020-02-17 修回日期:2020-03-25 出版日期:2020-06-05 发布日期:2020-06-05
  • 通讯作者: Yao Huang E-mail:yaohuang@ipp.ac.cn
  • 基金资助:
    Project supported by the National MCF Energy Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2018YFE0302100) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11705239, 11805236, and 11875291).

Tests of the real-time vertical growth rate calculation on EAST

Na-Na Bao(鲍娜娜)1,2, Yao Huang(黄耀)1, Jayson Barr3, Zheng-Ping Luo(罗正平)1, Yue-Hang Wang(汪悦航)1, Shu-Liang Chen(陈树亮)1, Bing-Jia Xiao(肖炳甲)1,2, David Humphreys3   

  1. 1 Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230031, China;
    2 University of Science & Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China;
    3 General Atomics, P. O. Box 85608, San Diego, CA 92186-5608, USA
  • Received:2020-02-17 Revised:2020-03-25 Online:2020-06-05 Published:2020-06-05
  • Contact: Yao Huang E-mail:yaohuang@ipp.ac.cn
  • Supported by:
    Project supported by the National MCF Energy Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2018YFE0302100) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11705239, 11805236, and 11875291).

摘要: In order to measure controllability of vertical instability in EAST, the calculation of model-based vertical growth rate, called rt-gamma, has been successfully carried out in real time. The numerical computing method is adapted from rigid plasma response model in TokSys, which is a widely-used analysis tool for tokamak devices in Matlab environment, but the code is rewritten by taking advantage of GPU parallel computing capability to accelerate the computation. The calculation of rt-gamma is validated by comparing it with the corresponding result generated by TokSys for totally 3508 cases. It is shown that the average absolute value of relative errors is about 0.85%. In addition, the calculation program of rt-gamma has been successfully applied during 2019 EAST campaign. The comparison with experimental results is discussed in this paper. The real-time calculation tool is well able to calculate model-based vertical growth rate, which is convenient for fast and continuous evaluations of EAST control system stability performances.

关键词: EAST, vertical growth rate, rigid plasma response model

Abstract: In order to measure controllability of vertical instability in EAST, the calculation of model-based vertical growth rate, called rt-gamma, has been successfully carried out in real time. The numerical computing method is adapted from rigid plasma response model in TokSys, which is a widely-used analysis tool for tokamak devices in Matlab environment, but the code is rewritten by taking advantage of GPU parallel computing capability to accelerate the computation. The calculation of rt-gamma is validated by comparing it with the corresponding result generated by TokSys for totally 3508 cases. It is shown that the average absolute value of relative errors is about 0.85%. In addition, the calculation program of rt-gamma has been successfully applied during 2019 EAST campaign. The comparison with experimental results is discussed in this paper. The real-time calculation tool is well able to calculate model-based vertical growth rate, which is convenient for fast and continuous evaluations of EAST control system stability performances.

Key words: EAST, vertical growth rate, rigid plasma response model

中图分类号:  (Tokamaks, spherical tokamaks)

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