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Title: Dimensionless size scaling of intrinsic rotation in DIII-D

Abstract

A dimensionless empirical scaling for intrinsic toroidal rotation is given; MANρ*, where MA is the toroidal velocity divided by the Alfvén velocity, βN the usual normalized β value, and ρ* is the ion gyroradius divided by the minor radius. This scaling describes well experimental data from DIII-D, and also some published data from C-Mod and JET. The velocity used in this scaling is in an outer location in minor radius, outside of the interior core and inside of the large gradient edge region in H-mode conditions. Furthermore, this scaling establishes the basic magnitude of the intrinsic toroidal rotation and its relation to the rich variety of rotation profiles that can be realized for intrinsic conditions is discussed.

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1];  [1];  [2];  [3]
  1. General Atomics, San Diego, CA (United States)
  2. Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
  3. Max-Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Garching (Germany); Gent Univ., Gent (Belgium)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
General Atomics, San Diego, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1354789
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1279019
Grant/Contract Number:  
FC02-04ER54698; AC02-09CH11466; FG02-04ER54235
Resource Type:
Journal Article: Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Physics of Plasmas
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 23; Journal Issue: 8; Journal ID: ISSN 1070-664X
Publisher:
American Institute of Physics (AIP)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY

Citation Formats

deGrassie, John S., Solomon, Wayne M., Rice, J. E., and Noterdaeme, J. -M. Dimensionless size scaling of intrinsic rotation in DIII-D. United States: N. p., 2016. Web. doi:10.1063/1.4960023.
deGrassie, John S., Solomon, Wayne M., Rice, J. E., & Noterdaeme, J. -M. Dimensionless size scaling of intrinsic rotation in DIII-D. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4960023
deGrassie, John S., Solomon, Wayne M., Rice, J. E., and Noterdaeme, J. -M. 2016. "Dimensionless size scaling of intrinsic rotation in DIII-D". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4960023. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1354789.
@article{osti_1354789,
title = {Dimensionless size scaling of intrinsic rotation in DIII-D},
author = {deGrassie, John S. and Solomon, Wayne M. and Rice, J. E. and Noterdaeme, J. -M.},
abstractNote = {A dimensionless empirical scaling for intrinsic toroidal rotation is given; MA ~βNρ*, where MA is the toroidal velocity divided by the Alfvén velocity, βN the usual normalized β value, and ρ* is the ion gyroradius divided by the minor radius. This scaling describes well experimental data from DIII-D, and also some published data from C-Mod and JET. The velocity used in this scaling is in an outer location in minor radius, outside of the interior core and inside of the large gradient edge region in H-mode conditions. Furthermore, this scaling establishes the basic magnitude of the intrinsic toroidal rotation and its relation to the rich variety of rotation profiles that can be realized for intrinsic conditions is discussed.},
doi = {10.1063/1.4960023},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1354789}, journal = {Physics of Plasmas},
issn = {1070-664X},
number = 8,
volume = 23,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 2016},
month = {Mon Aug 01 00:00:00 EDT 2016}
}

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