The effect of ELMs on edge plasma scaling in DIII-D

Autor: R.A. Moyer, Dean A. Buchenauer, R.B. Campbell, J.W. Cuthbertson, A.W. Leonard, M.A. Mahdavi, A. Futch, D. N. Hill, T.W. Petrie, J.G. Watkins
Rok vydání: 1992
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Zdroj: Journal of Nuclear Materials. :204-209
ISSN: 0022-3115
DOI: 10.1016/s0022-3115(06)80032-2
Popis: In this paper we report results of scaling studies aimed at determining how the divertor conditions vary with plasma current, toroidal field, and neutral beam heating power in H-mode discharges with ELMs in the DIII-D tokamak. We find that ELMs produce relatively more direct particle losses (50% or more of the total) than energy losses (≤20%). The time-average peak divertor heat flux in these plasmas is found to scale as d α ( P NBI I p )( B p,mp / B p,div ). The linear power dependence suggests that the plasma sheath at the targets is primarily responsible for limiting the parallel energy flow, while the I p variation may mean that the radial energy transport in the SOL decreases with increasing plasma current, just as it does in the core.
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