F.J. Casson C. Angioni E.A. Belli R. Bilato P. Mantica T. Odstrcil T Puetterich M. Valisa L. Garzotti C. Giroud J. Hobirk C.F. Maggi J. Mlynar M.L. Reinke JET EFDA contributors ASDEX-Upgrade team
The effects of poloidal asymmetries and heated minority species are shown to be necessary to accurately describe heavy impurity transport in present experiments in JET and ASDEX Upgrade. Plasma rotation, or any small background electrostatic field in the plasma, such as that generated by anisotropic external heating can generate strong poloidal den…
Preprint PublishedJ. Ball F. I. Parra
Using analytic calculations, the effects of the edge ux surface shape and the toroidal current profile on the penetration of ux surface shaping are investigated in a tokamak. It is shown that the penetration of shaping is determined by the poloidal variation of the poloidal magnetic field on the surface. This fact is used to investigate how differe…
Preprint PublishedF. I. Parra M. Barnes
Self-consistent equations for intrinsic rotation in tokamaks with small poloidal magnetic field Bp compared to the total magnetic field B are derived. The model gives the momentum redistribution due to turbulence, collisional transport and energy injection. Intrinsic rotation is determined by the balance between the momentum redistribution and the …
Preprint PublishedE. Surrey A.J.T. Holmes
A one dimensional model of the magnetic multipole volume plasma source has been developed for application to intense ion/neutral atom beam injectors. The model uses plasma transport coefficients for particle and energy flow to create a detailed description of the plasma parameters along an axis parallel to that of the extracted beam. In this paper …
Preprint PublishedM. Romanelli V. Parail P. da Silva Aresta Belo G. Corrigan L. Garzotti D. Harting F. Koechl E. Militello-Asp R. Ambrosino M. Cavinato A. Kukushkin A. Loarte M. Mattei R. Sartori
ITER operations require effective fuelling of the core plasma for conditions in which neutral dynamics through the scrape-off layer (SOL) is expected to affect significantly the efficiency of gas penetration. On the basis of previous analysis for stationary conditions, pellets are foreseen to provide core fuelling of high-Q DT scenarios. In this pa…
Preprint PublishedJ.C. Hillesheim N. A. Crocker W.A. Peebles H. Meyer A. Meakins A.R. Field D. Dunai M. Carr N. Hawkes The MAST Team
The high-k (7 . k??i . 11) wavenumber spectrum of density fluctuations has been measured for the first time in MAST [B. Lloyd et al, Nucl. Fusion 43, 1665 (2003)]. This was accomplished with the first implementation of Doppler backscattering (DBS) for core measurements in a spherical tokamak. DBS has become a well-established and versatile diagnost…
Preprint PublishedA. Kirk W. Suttrop I.T. Chapman Yueqiang Liu R. Scannell A.J. Thornton L. Barrera Orte P. Cahyna T. Eich R. Fischer C. Fuchs C. Ham J.R. Harrison MW. Jakubowski B. Kurzan S. Pamela M. Peterka D. Ryan S. Saarelma B. Sieglin M. Valovic M Willensdorfer MAST and ASDEX Upgrade Teams
Sustained Edge Localised Mode (ELM) mitigation has been achieved on MAST and AUG using RMPs with various toroidal mode numbers over a wide range of low to medium collisionality discharges. The ELM energy loss and peak heat loads at the divertor targets have been reduced. The ELM mitigation phase is typically associated with a drop in plasma density…
Preprint PublishedM. Valovic L. Garzotti C. Gurl A. Kirk D. Dunai A.R. Field I. Lupelli G. Naylor A. Thornton The MAST Team
The fuelling of plasmas by shallow frozen pellets with simultaneous mitigation of edge- localised modes (ELM) by external magnetic perturbation is demonstrated on the MAST tokamak. In these plasmas post-pellet particle loss is dominated by ELMs. It is shown that the size of post-pellet ELMs can be controlled by external magnetic perturbations. Post…
Preprint PublishedY. Liu R. Akers I.T. Chapman Y. Gribov G.Z. Hao G.T.A. Huijsmans A. Kirk A. Loarte S.D. Pinches M. Reinke D. Ryan Y. Sun Z.R. Wang
The linear and quasi-linear plasma response to the n = 3 and n = 4 (n is the toroidal mode number) resonant magnetic perturbation (RMP) fields, produced by the in-vessel edge localized mode control coils, is numerically studied for an ITER 15MA H-mode baseline Scenario. Both single fluid and fluid-kinetic hybrid models are used. The inclusion of dr…
Preprint PublishedL. Giacomelli S. Conroy F. Belli G. Gorini E. Joffrin V. Kiptily E. Lerche A. Murari V.V. Plyusnin S. Popovichev C. Reux M. Riva D.B. Syme JET EFDA Contributors
The Joint European Torus (JET, Culham, UK) is the largest tokamak in the world. JET has been upgraded over the years and recently it has also become a test facility of the components designed for ITER, the next step fusion machine under construction in Cadarache (France). At JET, the neutron emission profile of Deuterium (D) or Deuterium-Tritium (D…
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