EFFECTS OF BOOTSTRAP CURRENT ON ENERGY CONFINEMENT OF TOKAMAK PLASMAS

Based on the principle of profile consistency and \eta_i-mode induced anomalous transport model, the enery confinement in tokamak plasmas is studied with inclusion of the bootstrap curreut in which the poloidal magnetic field is consistently deter-mined. The results show that bootstrap current has a significant effect on plasma confinement. If the bootstrap current is (15-30)% of the total current, global energy confinement time may increase by (20-45)%, and the maximum of related energy store is almost as much as twice the value without bootstrap current. Variation of the energy confinement time with the plasma parameters is of similar trend with Kaye-Goldston scaling. In addition, it can be seen that the radius of q=l surface decreases with bootstrap current, which may be one of the possible mechanisms for some experimental results where sawtooth oscillation disappears because of auxiliary heating.