Low-$n$ global ideal MHD instabilities in CFETR baseline scenario

Abstract

This article reports an evaluation on the linear ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) stability of the China Fusion Engineering Test Reactor (CFETR) baseline scenario for various first-wall locations. The initial-value code NIMROD and eigen-value code AEGIS are employed in this analysis. A good agreement is achieved between two codes in the growth rates of n = 1 − 10 ideal MHD modes for various locations of the perfect conducting first-wall. The higher-n modes are dominated by ballooning modes and localized in the pedestal region, while the lower-n modes have more prominent external kink components and broader mode profiles. The influences of plasma-vacuum profile and wall shape are also examined using NIMROD. In presence of resistive wall, the low-n ideal MHD instabilities are further studied using AEGIS. For the designed first-wall location, the n = 1 resistive wall mode (RWM) is found unstable, which could be fully stabilized by uniform toroidal rotation above 2.9% core Alfvén speed.