In:
Physics of Fluids B: Plasma Physics, AIP Publishing, Vol. 2, No. 6 ( 1990-06-01), p. 1347-1352
Abstract:
Experiments involving plasma improvement, confinement scaling, bootstrap currents, and edge fluctuations have been carried out in the Advanced Toroidal Facility (ATF) torsatron [Fusion Technol. 10, 179 (1986)]. Average densities n̄e≤9×1019 m−3 have been obtained, with global energy confinement times τ*E≤20 msec. Confinement times generally follow the stellarator/torsatron empirical scaling law, τSL =0.17×P−0.58n0.69eB0.84a2R0.75 (with τSL in seconds, power P in megawatts, density ne in 1020 m−3, and plasma radius a and major radius R in meters). Gas injection during neut ral beam injection (NBI) causes increases in ne, so that τ*E does not decrease during NBI. Edge plasma fluctuations are found to exhibit a mode change near the peak of the energy confinement time. Plasma currents observed during electron cyclotron heating have been identified as bootstrap currents.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0899-8221
Language:
English
Publisher:
AIP Publishing
Publication Date:
1990
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648023-8
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