Turbulent transport of impurities and their effect on energy confinement

Journal Article · Fri Jun 14 00:00:00 EDT 2013 · Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1088/0741-3335/55/7/074012· OSTI ID:1565027

Pusztai, I. ^[1]; Mollén, A. ^[2]; Fülöp, T. ^[2]; Candy, J. ^[3]

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1. Chalmers Univ. of Technology, Göteborg (Sweden). Dept. of Applied Physics; Euratom-VR Association, Göteborg (Sweden); Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States). Plasma Science and Fusion Center
2. Chalmers Univ. of Technology, Göteborg (Sweden). Dept. of Applied Physics; Euratom-VR Association, Göteborg (Sweden)
3. General Atomics, San Diego, CA (United States)

By presenting linear and nonlinear gyrokinetic studies, based on a balanced neutral beam injection deuterium discharge from the DIII-D tokamak, we demonstrate that impurities alter the scaling of the transport on the charge and mass of the main species, and even more importantly, they can dramatically change the energy transport even in relatively small quantities. A poloidally varying equilibrium electrostatic potential can lead to a strong reduction or sign change of the impurity peaking factor due to the combined effect of the in–out impurity density asymmetry and the E × B drift of impurities. Finally, we present an approximate expression for the impurity peaking factor and demonstrate that impurity peaking is not significantly affected by impurity self-collisions.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC)
• OSTI ID: 1565027
• Journal Information: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, Vol. 55, Issue 7; ISSN 0741-3335
• Publisher: IOP Science
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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