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Double layer (plasma physics)

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Long timescale density peaking in JET

Long timescale density peaking has been observed in JET plasmas leading to densities exceeding the Greenwald value. These neutral beam heated discharges are characterized by type-I ELMS and good energy confinement. Central density is limited by neoclassica ...

2002

Comparing TCV experimental VDE responses with DINA code simulations

Jonathan Bryan Lister, Jean-Yves Favez

The DINA free-boundary equilibrium simulation code has been implemented for TCV, including the full TCV feedback and diagnostic systems. First results showed good agreement with control coil perturbations and correctly reproduced certain non-linear feature ...

2002

ELM moderation with ICRF heating on JET

Olivier Sauter

A high-density, ELM-free, 'enhanced Dalpha' (EDA) H-mode has been demonstrated with Ohmic or RF heating on the Alcator C-Mod device. An allied 'low particle confinement' H-regime was also observed previously in 'Mk0' divertor experiments on JET. Initial at ...

2002

Plasma equilibrium response modelling and validation on JT-60U

Jonathan Bryan Lister, Ashish Sharma

A systematic procedure to identify the plasma equilibrium response to the poloidal field coil voltages has been applied to the JT-60U tokamak. The required response was predicted with a high accuracy by a state-space model derived from first principles. Th ...

2002

Global linear gyrokinetic simulations in quasi-symmetric configurations

Laurent Villard, Wilfred Anthony Cooper, Kurt Appert, Trach-Minh Tran

First global linear study of electrostatic drift waves in two realistic quasisymmetric configurations, namely the Quasi-Axially symmetric Stellarator with three fields periods (QAS3) [P. Garabian and L. P. Ku, Phys. Plasma 6, 645 (1999)] and the Helically ...

2001

Characterization of impurities in L- and H-modes created by divertor biasing and plasma triangularity in TdeV

A characterization of the H-mode in Tokamak de Varennes (TdeV) is presented, combining results obtained from spectroscopic measurements with observations of global plasma parameters. Controlled L- and H-modes are obtained by applying an external bias on th ...

2001

Configuration flexibility and extended regimes in Large Helical Device

Wilfred Anthony Cooper, Kenji Tanaka

Recent experimental results in the Large Helical Device have indicated that a large pressure gradient can be formed beyond the stability criterion for the Mercier (high-n) mode. While the stability against an interchange mode is violated in the inward-shif ...

2001

Beam driven Alfven eigenmodes and fishbones in JET

Ambrogio Fasoli

Fast particle driven instabilities are investigated at low toroidal field B-0 approximate to 1 T in tritium, deuterium and hydrogen plasmas. Tritium, deuterium and hydrogen neutral beams with energies of 160, 140 and 110 keV were injected, respectively, in ...

2000

Neoclassical conductivity and bootstrap current formulas for general axisymmetric equilibria and arbitrary collisionality regime

Olivier Sauter

Expressions for the neoclassical resistivity and the bootstrap current coefficients in terms of aspect ratio and collisionality are widely used in simulating toroidal axisymmetric equilibria and transport evolution. The formulas used are in most cases base ...

1999

The design of central column protection tiles for the TCV tokamak

Jean-Marc Moret, René Chavan, Richard Pitts

The large variety of plasma shapes produced in the TCV tokamak places unique demands on the plasma facing surfaces. In particular, the central column graphite armour tiles are solicited during the creation of all TCV plasmas and function as power handling ...

1999

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