First Measurement of the Magnetic Turbulence Induced Reynolds Stress in a Tokamak

Reynolds stress component due to magnetic turbulence was first measured in the plasma edge region of the HT-7 superconducting tokamak using an insertable magnetic probe. A radial gradient of magnetic Reynolds stress was observed to be close to the velocity shear layer location; however, in this experiment its contribution to driving the poloidal flows is small compared to the electrostatic component. The electron heat transport driven by magnetic turbulence is quite small and cannot account for the total energy transport at the plasma edge.     

Conditional Analysis and Biorthogonal Decomposition of Plasma Turbulence in the CT—6B Tokamak

Coherent structures in the CT-6B tokamak plasma turbulence are detected by using conditional averaging.The results show that the coherent structures are short-lived and do not propagate in the radial direction.The biorthogonal decomposition technique is adopted to analyse further the coherent structure in the turbulence,The time evolution and spatial distribution of the coherent structures are obtained.     

Snake Studies in the HL-1M Tokamak

Lower-hybrid current drive (LHCD) experiments were carried out the HL-1M hydrogen plasmas. The effect of LHCD on central MHD activities [sawtooth (m=0), m =1 mode] were studied with the fluctuations observation of the soft X-ray (SXR) emission.     

Statistical Characterization of Boundary Fluctuations in the HT—7 Tokamak

The statistical properties of plasma fluctuations are characterized in the boundary region of HT-7 tokamak. A non-Gaussian feature is observed in fluctuations of ion saturation current and floating potential in most of the scrape-off layer regions. The statistical properties of fluctuations have a clear radial dependence, showing a near-Gaussian character in the proximity of the velocity shear layer location and another region where the poloidal velocity has a trend to zero. Fluctuations show a bursty character with pulses asymmetric in time and the time asymmetry reaches the minimum around the shear layer. From the results, we can see an obvious coupling of the pulses and the poloidal flow.     

The Effect of Recycling in the HL-1M Tokamak

It is often stated that even clean tokamak discharges disrupt at high density. One possibility is that such disruption result from the energy loss arising from hydrogen recycling at the edge of the plasma.this energy loss could lead to a contraction of the current channel and the production of a disruptively unstable configuration.     

Modification of Boundary Fluctuations by LHCD in the HT—7 Tokamak

Measurements of boundary fluctuations and fluctuation driven electron fluxes have been performed in ohmic and lower hybrid current drive enhanced confinement plasma using a graphite Langmuir probe array on HT-7 tokamak. The fluctuations are significantly suppressed and the turbulent fluxes are remarkably depressed in the enhanced plasma. We characterized the statistical properties of fluctuations and the particle flux and found a non-Gaussian character in the whole scrape-off layer with minimum deviations from Gaussian in the proximity of the velocity shear layer in ohmic plasma. In the enhanced plasma the deviations in the boundary region are all reduces obviously. The fluctuations and induced electron fluxes show sporadic bursts asymmetric in time and the asymmetry is remarkably weakened in the lower hybrid current driving (LHCD) phase. The results suggest a coupling between the statistical behaviour of fluctuations and the turbulent flow.     

Spectral Characteristics of Edge Electrostatic Turbulence in the HL-2A Tokamak

A three-tip array is used in the HL-2A tokamak to investigate the spectral characteristics of electrostatic turbulence inside the last closed flux surface （LCFS） about 5 cm. Two-point correlation techniques are used to analysis the turbulence structure. It is found that the drift wave turbulence mainly is composed of low-frequency and long wavelength wave packets. The poloidal propagation is mainly in electron-diamagnetic direction, sometimes it propagates in ion-diamagnetic direction, which is influenced by Doppler-frequency shift. The radial propagation velocity is outward and the sizeable fraction of the poloidal velocity, implying that the radial mode plays an important role in the cross field transport.     

An Analytical Approach to the Turbulence-Relaxed State in Tokamak Plasmas

Starting from the continuity, temperature, and motion equations of the trapped electron fluid in generaltokamak magnetic field with positive or reversed shear and the definition of Lagrangian invariant, dL / dt = ( t u. )L =0, where u is convective velocity, the trapped electron dynamics is considered in the following two assumptions: (i) theturbulence is low frequency electrostatic, and (ii) L is a functional only of the density n, temperature T, and magneticfield B, and the effect of perturbation potential φ is included in the convective velocity u, i.e., u is a functional of n,T, B, and φ. The Lagrangian invariant hidden in the trapped electron dynamics is strictly found: L= ln[(n/B)c1(T/B2/3)c2], where c1 and c2 are dimensionless changeable parameters and c1 ∝ c2. From this Lagrangian invariant thewhich, in the limit of large aspect ratio, reduce to n(r)q(r) = const. and T3/2(r)q(r) = const., respectively. The lattertwo scaling laws are compared with existent experimental results, being in good agreement.     

Microwave Correlation Reflectometry for Tokamak CASTOR

A correlation reflectometer in 8-mm wavelength range has been constructed and installed on CASTOR tokamak. The reflectometer can operate on three fixed frequencies (29, 33, and 35 GHz). This is universal correlation sine-cosine reflectometer, which can work in poloidal or toroidal correlation regime and in ordinary mode (O-mode) and/or extraordinary mode (X-mode). A computational method of a direct evaluation of the phase fluctuations as well as absolute value of the phase from sine-cosine data has been developed. Using this method the relative plasma density fluctuations in the CASTOR core plasma has been determined in the range of few percent under assumption of parabolic density distribution.     

Intermittent Structures in the High Field Side Boundary of the HYBTOK-II Tokamak

The spatial and temporal characteristics of the turbulence in the inboard and outboard scrape-off layer (SOL) of tokamak HYBTOK-II have been studied using poloidal probe array. Bursty behaviour with intermittent bursts was observed for both outboard and inboard SOL. In the inboard (high field side), high level of density fluctuations has been observed. The fluctuations in the high field side and low field side are identical in statistics that is non-Gaussian one.     

Poloidal Structure of the Turbulence and the Turbulent Flux During Edge Plasma Biasing in the Castor Tokamak

The poloidal structure of the turbulence and the turbulent particle flux in the scrape-off layer (SOL) of the CASTOR tokamak are analysed by means of a poloidal ring of 124 probes distributed uniformly along the whole poloidal circumference. Fluctuation measurements are performed in standard ohmic regime as well as in discharges when a biased electrode is inserted either into the SOL or deeper into the confinement region. It is found that in both cases a strongly sheared radial electric field is created in the SOL, which de-correlates the density and radial velocity fluctuations and reduces their levels. Consequently, the turbulent flux is reduced. However, no phase shift is observed between density and radial velocity fluctuations. When the electrode is localized in the confinement region, all the above effects are less pronounced because of a smaller shear. In addition, the increase of the E × B velocity at biasing leads in both cases to the formation of oscillations in the temporal correlation function. These oscillations are specifically associated to the poloidal mode (m = q), which is created for a limited time and rotates poloidally. This mode does not modify the phase between density and radial velocity fluctuations and has no further effect on the turbulent flux.     

Electrostatic Probes for Studying Transport Properties in Tokamak Plasmas

Electrostatic probes for measuring the boundary plasma in tokamaks are reviewed and presented. Transport properties in JFT‐2, the ion temperature and the magnetic surface in JFT‐2M and floating potential fluctuations during the strong additional heating in JT‐60 are measured by several types of electrostatic probe the above‐mentioned purposes. The Langmuir probe including the double probe is applied to measure the spatial profile of boundary plasma in JFT‐2. The ion sensitive probe, the rotating cylindrical double probe, the asymmetric double probe and the differential double probe are applied to measure the ion temperature and magnetic surface in JFT‐2M. The reciprocating Langmuir probe applied to JFT‐2M observes the potential and density fluctuations and a new type probe is proposed for the quick diagnostic of core hot plasmas as a development of this probe. The fluctuation observed in JT‐60 is identified to be the ion cyclotron instability of the hot plasma caused by the strong anisotropy of the ion distribution function (© 2011 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Formation and Dynamics of Very Deep Negative Potential Well in the Small Tokamak Device CSTN-IV

We achieved a potential well more than fifty times deeper than the plasma electron temperature, down to -0.3 kV with the electrode biasing, by the cross-field radial arcing current of up to 150 A which flows between the small electron-emitting electrode (LaB₆) inserted to the plasma center and the stainless-steel wall of vacuum chamber. The empirical scaling of the radial resistance of plasma R _r on the radial arcing current I _b and the toroidal magnetic field B _T is found to be R _r I _b ^-1.2 B _T ^1.0. Structural dynamics of negative potential well formation is observed: the potential dip propagates from the plasma core to the periphery. The ion saturation current also increases, starting from the inner region. The fluctuation frequency in I _sat changes abruptly from 200 kHz to 30 kHz in a time of around 0.25 ms after negative biasing.     

EAST边界和芯部杂质谱线的时间延迟研究

边界杂质注入是未来聚变装置ITER用于增强边界辐射,减少第一壁热负荷的一种重要方法。但部分注入的杂质会被输运到芯部,造成主等离子体辐射损失以及约束下降。光谱观测可以获取杂质种类、含量和分布等信息,在理解等离子体中杂质输运方面起着重要作用。在EAST(experimental advanced superconducting tokamak)偏滤器氩气(Ar)注入实验中,利用偏滤器可见光谱和芯部极紫外光谱监测边界的Ar¹⁺离子谱线ArⅡ(401.36 nm)和芯部的Ar¹⁵⁺离子谱线ArⅩⅥ(35.39 nm),并获得两者强度随时间的变化。其中,ArⅡ和ArⅩⅥ的电离能分别为27和918 eV,因此,ArⅡ和ArⅩⅥ分别对应分布于等离子体边界和芯部Ar离子。为了分析二者谱线强度随时间变化的特征,发展了一种基于正则Pearson积矩相关系数的相关分析方法,计算得到两者谱线强度变化的相对延迟时间,以此表征杂质从边界向芯部输运的时间。结果显示,偏滤器注入Ar杂质后,芯部ArⅩⅥ辐射增长滞后于边界ArⅡ辐射的增长,并且在具有较高的低杂波加热功率的放电中...     

Scrape-off layer turbulence modulated by Mirnov oscillations

We investigate plasma turbulence at the scrape-off layer of TCABR tokamak. We apply a power spectral analysis to the magnetic Mirnov oscillations and electrostatic fluctuations, to quantify statistical properties and to estimate the turbulence-driven radial-particle flux. A distinctive peculiarity is the modulation of electrostatic turbulence by the Mirnov oscillations shown by the partial superposition of the frequency power spectra of these two oscillations. This characteristic allows us to investigate any possible influence of the Mirnov oscillations on particle transport. In fact, a significant part of this transport occurs at the Mirnov frequencies. The effect of this modulation is also analyzed for discharges modified by external perturbations, a DC biased electrode or an ergodic magnetic limiter.Presented at the Workshop Electric Fields Structures and Relaxation in Edge Plasmas, Nice, France, October 26–27, 2004.     

东方超环(EAST)装置中等离子体边界锂杂质的碰撞-辐射模型

在东方超环(EAST)装置中,由于大量锂化壁处理的使用,切向可见光摄像机拍摄到等离子体边界通常存在一条由锂(Li)杂质形成的绿色发光带.本文基于EAST边界等离子体参数条件,基于碰撞-辐射模型给出由已知边界等离子体状态推算Li绿光光强的空间分布的具体方法,并针对简化后的一维径向分布问题,收集、处理OPEN-ADAS数据库的数据,采用软件Mathematica 10.4.1编写相应的数值计算程序,分别输入EAST工作于低约束(L)与高约束(H)模时获得的两组边界电子温度、密度分布数据,给出并分析比较了利用该模型的计算结果.此项工作对于未来建立通过测量及反演边界锂杂质特征谱线强度的空间分布来重构边界等离子体状态的全新技术和研究存在三维磁场扰动条件下的边界等离子体行为均具有重要的理论参考价值.     

托卡马克等离子体电流爬升阶段逃逸电子行为

分析了电流爬升阶段等离子体密度和电流爬升率对逃逸电子行为的影响,研究了低杂波辅助电流驱动条件下的逃逸电子辐射行为。结果发现：电流爬升阶段等离子体密度的大小严重影响了电流爬升阶段甚至电流平顶阶段逃逸电子的行为,较低的等离子体密度将会导致放电过程中比较强的逃逸电子辐射;低能逃逸电子辐射随着电流爬升率的增大而增强;低杂波辅助电流爬升可以有效地节约装置的伏秒数;降低放电过程中的环电压,可有效抑制逃逸电子的产生。