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LOCATION:106 Engineering Research Building\; https://uwmadison.zoom.us
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SUMMARY:Suppressing Drift-Wave-Driven Turbulence with Magnetic Field S
 haping\, Thesis Defense\, Joseph Duff\, Physics PhD Graduate Student
DESCRIPTION:The effect of triangularity and sign of geodesic curvature
  $\\mathcal{K}^x$ on ion-temperature-gradient (ITG)-driven turbulence 
 was investigated\, covering both extreme positive and negative triangu
 larities. Triangularity had a substantial impact on linear and nonline
 ar physics\, and reversing  $\\mathcal{K}^x$ significantly impacted tu
 rbulence saturation. Negative triangularity reduced peak linear growth
  rates and broadened the growth rate spectrum as a function of radial 
 wavenumber $k_x$. Positive triangularity increased peak growth rates t
 hat shifted to finite $k_x$ and narrowed the growth rate spectrum. Rev
 ersing the sign of $\\mathcal{K}^x$ slightly lowered linear growth rat
 es\, except for $\\delta=0.85$\, where the growth rates decreased sign
 ificantly. The effect of triangularity on linear instability propertie
 s at low perpendicular wavenumbers can be explained through its impact
  on magnetic polarization and curvature. The nonlinear heat flux was w
 eakly dependent on triangularity for $-0.5\\le\\delta\\le0$\, increasi
 ng significantly with extreme $\\delta$\, regardless of sign. When $\\
 mathcal{K}^x$ was reversed\, the heat flux decreased\, became weakly d
 ependent on triangularity for $\\abs{\\delta}\\le0.5$\, and decreased 
 significantly at extreme triangularity\, regardless of sign. Zonal mod
 es play an important role in nonlinear saturation for the configuratio
 ns studied\, and artificially suppressing zonal modes increased the no
 nlinear heat flux by a factor of at least two and a half\, with negati
 ve triangularities having a larger increase. When $\\mathcal{K}^x$ was
  reversed\, so did the trend of heat flux ratios with triangularity. P
 roxies for zonal-flow damping and drive suggest that zonal flows are e
 nhanced with increasing positive $\\delta$ in both $\\mathcal{K}^x$ sc
 enarios. Conventional quasilinear models did not capture the nonlinear
  heat flux trends\, but\, by using a reduced three-field fluid model f
 or ITGs\, the effect of unstable modes coupling to stable modes via zo
 nal modes was added to the quasilinear model. This three-wave-interact
 ion corrected quasilinear model was only able to capture the nonlinear
  trends in triangularity when $\\mathcal{K}^x$ was reversed. The failu
 re of the modified quasilinear model to estimate the nonlinear trend f
 or the physical equilibria was likely due to the nonlinear heat flux s
 pectra extending into scales where the fluid model is not valid.
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\
 nOptimizations resulted in two three-dimensionally-shaped magnetic con
 figurations with suppressed trapped-electron-mode (TEM)-driven turbule
 nce. Initial equilibria had flux surface shapes with a helically rotat
 ing negative triangularity (NT) and positive triangularity (PT). The o
 ptimization targeted quasihelical symmetry and the available energy of
  trapped particles. In electron-temperature-gradient-driven scenarios\
 , the most unstable linear modes of the TEM-optimized configurations w
 ere inconsistent with TEMs\, and the nonlinear simulations showed no s
 ignificant fluctuations at ion scales. When a density gradient was pre
 sent\, the most unstable modes at low $k_y$ were toroidal universal in
 abilities (UIs) in the NT case and slab UIs in the PT geometry. Nonlin
 ear simulations showed that UIs drove substantial heat flux in the NT 
 and PT configurations. Increasing the ratio of plasma pressure to magn
 etic pressure to $\\beta=4\\times10^{-3}$ significantly reduced linear
  instability at low $k_y$\, halved the nonlinear heat flux for the NT 
 case\, and almost completely suppressed the turbulence in the PT confi
 guration.
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