A self-consistent model for low-high transitions in tokamaks
- Institute for Plasma Research, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742-3511 (United States)
A system of equations that couples the rapidly varying fluctuations of resistive ballooning modes to the slowly varying transport of the density, vorticity and parallel momentum have been derived and solved numerically. Only a single toroidal mode number is retained in the present work. The low-mode (L-mode) phase consists of strong poloidally asymmetric particle transport driven by resistive ballooning modes, with larger flux on the outboard side compared to the inboard side. With the onset of shear flow driven by a combination of toroidal drive mechanisms as well as the Reynolds stress, the fluctuations associated with the resistive ballooning modes are attenuated leading to a strong reduction in the particle transport. The drop in the particle transport results in steepening of the density profile leading to the high-mode (H-mode). {copyright} {ital 1996 American Institute of Physics.}
- OSTI ID:
- 383787
- Journal Information:
- Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 3, Issue 10; Other Information: PBD: Oct 1996
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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