Design of new resonant magnetic perturbation coils on the J-TEXT tokamak

Abstract

The resonant magnetic perturbation (RMP) system is a powerful auxiliary system on tokamaks. On the J-TEXT tokamak, a set of new in-vessel coils is designed to enhance the amplitude of the RMP. The new coils are designed to be two-turn saddle coils. These two-turn saddle coils have been optimized in terms of their structure, support, and protection components to overcome the limitations of the narrow in-vessel space, resulting in a compact coil module that can be accommodated in the vessel. To verify the feasibility of this design, an electromagnetic simulation is performed to investigate the electrical parameters and the generated field of the coils. A multi-field coupled simulation is performed to investigate the capacity of heat dissipation. As a result of these efforts, the new RMP coils have been successfully installed on the J-TEXT tokamak. It has significantly enhanced the RMP amplitude and been widely applied in experiments.