Dependence of scrape-off layer profiles and turbulence on gas fuelling in high density H-mode regimes in TCV
Abstract
A set of high density, highly shaped H-mode discharges has been performed in the TCV tokamak with the aim of assessing the effects of increasing divertor neutral recycling on the properties of upstream inter-ELM scrape-off layer (SOL) profiles and transport. An increase of divertor neutral pressure has been correlated with the evolution of separatrix properties and turbulence level. The latter has been quantified by means of the αt parameter introduced in (Eich 2020 Nucl. Fusion 60 056016), describing the contribution of resistive-interchange turbulence in the SOL relative to drift wave transport. The analysis reveals a general broadening of the upstream SOL profiles as αt increases, with the SOL power width measured by the vertical IR thermography system increasing significantly. In a similar way, the upstream density profile widens in the near SOL, whereas in the far SOL a density shoulder is observed to progressively form and increase in amplitude. This behaviour is associated with an enhancement of far SOL turbulent transport in the form of blob-filaments travelling radially faster across the far SOL and becoming bigger at higher αt. Finally, the detected filaments, evaluated from the fast reciprocating probe at the outer midplane, are determined to mostly belong to themore »
- Authors:
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- Consorzio RFX (Italy)
- Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States)
- Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (EPFL) (Switzerland)
- Max Planck Society, Garching (Germany). Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics
- CEA, IRFM, Saint Paul Lez Durance (France)
- VTT Technical Research Centre (Finland)
- Technische Univ. Wien (Austria)
- Culham Science Centre, Abingdon (United Kingdom). Culham Centre for Fusion Energy (CCFE)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Univ. of California, San Diego, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- Contributing Org.:
- EUROfusion MST1 Team; TCV Team
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1979422
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0010529
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Nuclear Fusion
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 62; Journal Issue: 9; Journal ID: ISSN 0029-5515
- Publisher:
- IOP Science
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; H-mode; ELMs; QCE; scrape-off layer; E-folding lengths; blob-filaments
Citation Formats
Stagni, A., Vianello, N., Tsui, C. K., Colandrea, C., Gorno, S., Bernert, M., Boedo, J. A., Brida, D., Falchetto, G., Hakola, A., Harrer, G., Reimerdes, H., Theiler, C., Tsitrone, E., and Walkden, N. Dependence of scrape-off layer profiles and turbulence on gas fuelling in high density H-mode regimes in TCV. United States: N. p., 2022.
Web. doi:10.1088/1741-4326/ac8234.
Stagni, A., Vianello, N., Tsui, C. K., Colandrea, C., Gorno, S., Bernert, M., Boedo, J. A., Brida, D., Falchetto, G., Hakola, A., Harrer, G., Reimerdes, H., Theiler, C., Tsitrone, E., & Walkden, N. Dependence of scrape-off layer profiles and turbulence on gas fuelling in high density H-mode regimes in TCV. United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/ac8234
Stagni, A., Vianello, N., Tsui, C. K., Colandrea, C., Gorno, S., Bernert, M., Boedo, J. A., Brida, D., Falchetto, G., Hakola, A., Harrer, G., Reimerdes, H., Theiler, C., Tsitrone, E., and Walkden, N. Tue .
"Dependence of scrape-off layer profiles and turbulence on gas fuelling in high density H-mode regimes in TCV". United States. https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/ac8234. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1979422.
@article{osti_1979422,
title = {Dependence of scrape-off layer profiles and turbulence on gas fuelling in high density H-mode regimes in TCV},
author = {Stagni, A. and Vianello, N. and Tsui, C. K. and Colandrea, C. and Gorno, S. and Bernert, M. and Boedo, J. A. and Brida, D. and Falchetto, G. and Hakola, A. and Harrer, G. and Reimerdes, H. and Theiler, C. and Tsitrone, E. and Walkden, N.},
abstractNote = {A set of high density, highly shaped H-mode discharges has been performed in the TCV tokamak with the aim of assessing the effects of increasing divertor neutral recycling on the properties of upstream inter-ELM scrape-off layer (SOL) profiles and transport. An increase of divertor neutral pressure has been correlated with the evolution of separatrix properties and turbulence level. The latter has been quantified by means of the αt parameter introduced in (Eich 2020 Nucl. Fusion 60 056016), describing the contribution of resistive-interchange turbulence in the SOL relative to drift wave transport. The analysis reveals a general broadening of the upstream SOL profiles as αt increases, with the SOL power width measured by the vertical IR thermography system increasing significantly. In a similar way, the upstream density profile widens in the near SOL, whereas in the far SOL a density shoulder is observed to progressively form and increase in amplitude. This behaviour is associated with an enhancement of far SOL turbulent transport in the form of blob-filaments travelling radially faster across the far SOL and becoming bigger at higher αt. Finally, the detected filaments, evaluated from the fast reciprocating probe at the outer midplane, are determined to mostly belong to the resistive ballooning and resistive X-point regimes.},
doi = {10.1088/1741-4326/ac8234},
journal = {Nuclear Fusion},
number = 9,
volume = 62,
place = {United States},
year = {Tue Aug 16 00:00:00 EDT 2022},
month = {Tue Aug 16 00:00:00 EDT 2022}
}
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