Author(s)

Giorgio Sonnino^1,2, Alberto Sonnino³, Jarah Evslin⁴, Pasquale Nardone¹, György Steinbrecher⁵

¹Department of Theoretical Physics and Mathematics, Université Libre de Bruxelles (U.L.B.), Campus Plaine, Brussels, Belgium.
²Royal Military School (RMS), Brussels, Belgium.
³Ecole Polytechnique de Louvain (EPL), Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium.
⁴High Energy Nuclear Physics Group, Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou, China.
⁵Physics Department, University of Craiova, Craiova, Romania.

We derive the differential equation, which is satisfied by the ITER scalings for the dynamic energy confinement time. We show that this differential equation can also be obtained from the differential equation for the energy confinement time, derived from the energy balance equation, when the plasma is near the steady state. We find that the values of the scaling parameters are linked to the second derivative of the power loss, estimated at the steady state. As an example of an application, the solution of the differential equation for the energy confinement time is compared with the profile obtained by solving numerically the balance equations (closed by a transport model) for a concrete Tokamak-plasma.

Fusion Reactors, Theory, Design, and Computerized Simulation

Sonnino, G. , Sonnino, A. , Evslin, J. , Nardone, P. and Steinbrecher, G. (2016) Determination of the Dynamic ITER Energy Confinement Time Scalings. Journal of Modern Physics, 7, 1429-1439. doi: 10.4236/jmp.2016.712130.