Ruben Otin Wouter Tierens Felix Parra Shafa Aria Ernesto Lerche Philippe Jacquet Igor Monakhov Pierre Dumortie Bart Van Compernolle JET Contributors
When RF waves are applied in tokamaks with metal walls, sheath rectification effects associated with the fields induced in the scrape-off layer (SOL) may lead to enhanced plasma-wall interactions (i.e. heat-loads in the limiters, RF-induced impurity sources) which can endanger the integrity of the machine and limit the RF power. Although many co…
Preprint PublishedV.H. Hall-Chen F.I. Parra J.C. Hillesheim J. Ruiz Ruiz N.A. Crocker P. Shi H.S. Chu S.J. Freethy L.A. Kogan W.A. Peebles Q.T. Pratt T.L. Rhodes K. Ronald R. Scannell D.C. Speirs S. Storment J. Trisno
Doppler reflectometry, or the Doppler backscattering (DBS) diagnostic, enables the measurement of turbulent density fluctuations of intermediate length scales, typically $10 gtrsim k_perp rho_i gtrsim 1$; here $k_perp$ is the turbulence’s wavenumber and $rho_i$ is the ion gyroradius. The backscattered power is proportional to the power of the tur…
PreprintV.H. Hall-Chen J. Damba F.I. Parra Q.T. Pratt C.A. Michael S. Peng T.L. Rhodes N.A. Crocker J.C. Hillesheim R. Hong S Ni W.A. Peebles C.E. Png J. Ruiz Ruiz
We use the beam model of Doppler backscattering (DBS), which was previously derived from beam tracing and the reciprocity theorem, to shed light on mismatch attenuation. This attenuation of the backscattered signal occurs when the wavevector of the probe beam’s electric field is not in the plane perpendicular to the magnetic field. Correcting for…
PreprintM. R. Hardman F. I. Parra C. Chong T. Adkins M. S. Anastopoulos-Tzanis M. Barnes D. Dickinson J. F. Parisi H. Wilson
Ion-gyroradius-scale microinstabilities typically have a frequency comparable to the ion transit frequency.…
PreprintRobert J Ewart Felix I Parra Alessandro Geraldini
The Debye sheath is shown to vanish completely in magnetised plasmas for a sufficiently small angle between the magnetic field and the wall that depends on the current to the wall. When the Debye sheath vanishes, there is still a potential drop between the wall and the plasma across the magnetic presheath. The magnetic field angle corresponding …
PreprintV. H. Hall-Chen F. I. Parra J. C. Hillesheim
We use beam tracing — implemented with a newly-written code, Scotty — and the reciprocity theorem to derive a model for the linear backscattered power of the Doppler Backscattering (DBS) diagnostic. Our model works for both the O-mode and X-mode in tokamak geometry (and certain regimes of stellarators). We present the analytical derivation of o…
PreprintJ F Parisi F I Parra C M Roach C Giroud W Dorland D R Hatch M Barnes J C Hillesheim N Aiba J R Ball P G Ivanov
Local linear gyrokinetic simulations show that electron temperature gradient (ETG) instabilities are the fastest growing modes for kyρi >~ 0.1 in the steep gradient region for a JET pedestal discharge (92174) where the electron temperature gradient is steeper than the ion temperature gradient. Here, ky is the wa…
Preprint PublishedP G Ivanov A A Schekochihin W Dorland A R Field F I Parra
The saturated state of turbulence driven by the ion-temperature-gradient instability is investigated using a two-dimensional long-wavelength fluid model that describes the perturbed electrostatic potential and perturbed ion temperature in a magnetic field with constant curvature (a Z-pinch) and an equilibrium temperature gradient. Numerical simulat…
Preprint PublishedC. Giroud N. Aiba F. Militello C. Challis A. Chankin B. Lomanowski D. Hatch J. Harrison D. Frigione D. Moulton S. Pamela F. Parra J. Parisi I. Putzai D. Refy S. Saarelma C. Stavrou B. Tal E. Belonohy S. Brezinsek S. Buller C. Bowman E. Delabie A. Field J. Fontdecaba A. Huber A. Meigs S. Menmuir J. Simpson JET Contributors
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V.H. Hall-Chen F.I. Parra J.C. Hillesheim
The use of Doppler Backscattering (DBS) in spherical tokamaks is challenging since the magnetic pitch angle can be large (up to 35, compared to 15 in standard tokamaks like JET). Moreover the pitch angle varies both spatially and temporally. Hence, the probe beam is generally not perpendicular to the magnetic field. This misalignment, which affec…
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