Application of ECH to the Study of Transport in ITER Baseline Scenario-like Discharges in DIII-D

Autor: Pinsker R.I., Austin M.E., Ernst D.R., Garofalo A.M., Grierson B.A., Hosea J.C., Luce T.C., Marinoni A., McKee G.R., Perkins R.J., Petty C.C., Porkolab M., Rost J.C., Schmitz L., Solomon W.M., Taylor G., Turco F.
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: EPJ Web of Conferences, Vol 87, p 02003 (2015)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2100-014X
DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/20158702003
Popis: Recent DIII-D experiments in the ITER Baseline Scenario (IBS) have shown strong increases in fluctuations and correlated reduction of confinement associated with entering the electron-heating-dominated regime with strong electron cyclotron heating (ECH). The addition of 3.2 MW of 110 GHz EC power deposited at ρ∼0.42 to IBS discharges with ∼3 MW of neutral beam injection causes large increases in low-k and medium-k turbulent density fluctuations observed with Doppler backscatter (DBS), beam emission spectroscopy (BES) and phase-contrast imaging (PCI) diagnostics, correlated with decreases in the energy, particle, and momentum confinement times. Power balance calculations show the electron heat diffusivity χe increases significantly in the mid-radius region 0.4
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