Clustering Analysis of Fast-ion Driven Instabilities

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Abstract

Beam ions often drive Alfv\'en eigenmodes and other instabilities unstable in DIII-D. Many of these modes have been unambigously identified but some frequently occurring features have been neglected. In this work, datamining analysis techniques [1] that successfully analyzed magnetics data from the H-1NF heliac are applied to arrays of magnetic and electron cyclotron emission (ECE) data from DIII-D. The techniques group instabilities with similar magnetic or ECE features into clusters. Once the clusters are found, a database of plasma parameters will facilitate mode identification.\par \vskip6pt \noindent [1] S.R. Haskey et al. , Comp. Phys. Comm. 185 (2014) 1169; B.D. Blackwell et al. J. Pl. Phys. Fus. Res. (2016) submitted.

*Work supported by the US Department of Energy under DE-FC02-04ER54698, DE-FG03-94ER54271, DE-AC02-09CH11466.

Authors

  • J. Gresl

    • UC Irvine
  • W.W. Heidbrink

    • UC Irvine
    • UCI
    • University of California Irvine
  • S.R. Haskey

    • PPPL
  • B.D. Blackwell

    • ANU