Classical impurity ion confinement in a toroidal magnetized fusion plasma

High-resolution measurements of impurity ion dynamics provide first-time evidence of classical ion confinement in a toroidal, magnetically confined plasma. The density profile evolution of fully stripped carbon is measured in MST reversed-field pinch plasmas with reduced magnetic turbulence to assess Coulomb-collisional transport without the neoclassical enhancement from particle drift effects. The impurity density profile evolves to a hollow shape, consistent with the temperature screening mechanism of classical transport. Corroborating methane pellet injection experiments expose the sensitivity of the impurity particle confinement time to the residual magnetic fluctuation amplitude.     

Turbulent equipartition and homogenization of plasma angular momentum

A physical model of turbulent equipartition (TEP) of plasma angular momentum is developed. We show that using a simple, model insensitive ansatz of conservation of total angular momentum, a TEP pinch of angular momentum can be obtained. We note that this term corresponds to a part of the pinch velocity previously calculated using quasilinear gyrokinetic theory. We observe that the nondiffusive TEP flux is inward, and therefore may explain the peakedness of the rotation profiles observed in certain experiments. Similar expressions for linear toroidal momentum and flow are computed and it is noted that there is an additional effect due the radial profile of moment of inertia density.     

东方超环上低杂波驱动等离子体环向旋转实验研究

旋转和旋转剪切能抑制磁流体不稳定性和增强等离子体约束.低杂波电流驱动作为未来聚变堆上可能的旋转驱动手段,探索低杂波在现有托卡马克装置上驱动等离子体旋转的驱动机制,可以为未来的聚变堆上旋转预测提供重要参考.在东方超环托卡马克装置上,早期发现了2.45 GHz的低杂波能有效驱动等离子体旋转的现象,认为是边界旋转的改变导致芯部旋转的同电流方向的增加造成的.更高频率下4.6 GHz低杂波电流驱动可以更有效地驱动同电流方向的等离子体旋转.本论文分析在欧姆背景等离子体下,不同功率的低杂波对等离子体环向旋转的影响,研究安全因子剖面变化对环向旋转的关系,利用功率调制获得了低杂波驱动旋转实验中的环向动量输运系数变化情况,发现环向动量扩散系数(χφ)、环向动量箍缩系数(Vpinch)的数值大小趋势是从芯部向靠外的区域逐渐变大.这与低杂波驱动环向旋转时,环向旋转速度由靠外的区域向芯部传递的特性吻合.     

Particle pinch with fully noninductive lower hybrid current drive in Tore Supra

Recently, plasmas exceeding 4 min have been obtained with lower hybrid current drive (LHCD) in Tore Supra. These LHCD plasmas extend for over 80 times the resistive current diffusion time with zero loop voltage. Under such unique conditions the neoclassical particle pinch driven by the toroidal electric field vanishes. Nevertheless, the density profile remains peaked for more than 4 min. For the first time, the existence of an inward particle pinch in steady-state plasma without toroidal electric field, much larger than the value predicted by the collisional neoclassical theory, is experimentally demonstrated.     

Study of particle transport in ac plasmas on HT-7 tokamak

The particle transport coefficients were investigated in ac plasmas by density modulation method on HT-7 tokamak. It is observed that the particle diffusion coefficient (D) is almost the same in various cases and varies with the electron density. The convection velocity (V) is equal to the value of inward pinch velocity (VE×B) for low and high density discharges. The particle confinement time becomes much higher when the directions of plasma current and toroidal field are uniform.     

Measurement of natural plasma flow along the field lines in the scrape-Off layer on the JT-60U divertor tokamak

The plasma profile and parallel plasma flow in the scrape-off layer (SOL) were systematically measured using reciprocating Mach probes installed at the outer midplane and near the divertor magnetic null (x point) in the JT-60U tokamak with a single null divertor. For the ion vertical drift due to the toroidal magnetic field gradient (ion nablaB drift) directed towards the divertor, SOL plasma flow along the magnetic field lines away from the divertor ("flow reversal") was discovered at the midplane far from the divertor. A quantitative evaluation of the ion "Pfirsch-Schluter flow," wherein the parallel flow is naturally produced in a toroidal plasma, was consistent with the measurement.     

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讨论了静态非均匀磁场中的磁场旋度对带电粒子引导中心漂移的影响。运用三维矢量分析的方法,将带电粒子垂直于磁场运动所引起的磁场漂移分为两项,分别由磁场的曲率和磁场的旋度决定。给出了螺旋状环形磁场中由磁场旋度引起的磁场漂移的近似表达式,讨论了该漂移成分对于该磁场中通行粒子轨道和捕获粒子轨道的可能影响。结果表明,带电粒子垂直于磁场运动所引起的磁场漂移主要由磁场的曲率决定,而磁场旋度对该漂移的影响比较微弱。     

磁场旋度对磁场漂移的影响

讨论了静态非均匀磁场中的磁场旋度对带电粒子引导中心漂移的影响。运用三维矢量分析的方法,将带电粒子垂直于磁场运动所引起的磁场漂移分为两项,分别由磁场的曲率和磁场的旋度决定。给出了螺旋状环形磁场中由磁场旋度引起的磁场漂移的近似表达式,讨论了该漂移成分对于该磁场中通行粒子轨道和捕获粒子轨道的可能影响。结果表明,带电粒子垂直于磁场运动所引起的磁场漂移主要由磁场的曲率决定,而磁场旋度对该漂移的影响比较微弱。     

Toroidal relaxed state of a reversed field pinch

A toroidal equilibrium study of a reversed field pinch, based on Taylor's Bessel function model (BFM), is investigated. We show that the toroidal relaxed state agrees even better, as compared to the BFM, with experimental observations of the reversed field pinch.     

Tokamak equilibria with reversed current density

Observations of nearly zero toroidal current in the central region of tokamaks (the "current hole") raises the question of the existence of toroidal equilibria with very low or reversed current in the core. The solutions of the Grad-Shafranov equilibrium equation with hollow toroidal current density profile including negative current density in the plasma center are investigated. Solutions of the corresponding eigenvalue problem provide simple examples of such equilibrium configurations. More realistic equilibria with toroidal current density reversal are computed using a new equilibrium problem formulation and computational algorithm which do not assume nested magnetic surfaces.     

Measurements of the MHD dynamo in the quasi-single-helicity reversed-field pinch

The first experimental study of the MHD dynamo in a quasi-single-helicity (QSH) reversed-field pinch toroidal plasma is presented. In QSH plasmas, a dominant wave number appears in the velocity fluctuation spectrum. This velocity component extends throughout the plasma volume and couples with magnetic fluctuations to produce a significant MHD dynamo electric field. The narrowing of the velocity fluctuation spectrum and the single-mode character of the dynamo are features predicted by theory and computation, but only now are observed in experiment.     

Particle loss from an electron cyclotron resonance discharge plasma in the WT-2 device

The dominant particle loss from an electron cyclotron resonance discharge plasma in a simple toroidal configuration is ascribed to the $\text{E}\text{×}\text{B}$ drift due to the vertical electric field produced by the electrons' toroidal drift. The electron density is increased by adding a small vertical field. This is explained by the electron flow along the line of force canceling the toroidal drift, resulting in reduction of the $\text{E}\text{×}\text{B}$ drift.     

托卡马克电场电子注入的漂移电子束研究

 研究了漂移电子束中电子的运动规律, 得到了电子在外加电场、纵磁场和电子束自场中的运动轨迹和漂移速度表达式, 并就它们的成束条件、成束形状和电压要求以及束的稳定性条件进行了比较和讨论, 认为阴极垂直于纵磁场放置更好一些。     

A class of exact solutions of the Hasegawa-Mima equation

The existence of a new class of drift vortices in a cylindrical plasma pinch is demonstrated starting from an exact solution of the Hasegawa-Mima equation with an inhomogeneous drift velocity. The waves are moving in a circle in the azimuthal direction and represent either a single cyclonic motion or a pair of cyclonic-anticyclonic motions of unequal intensity.     

Der Plasmaeinschluß in einem toroidalen Theta-Pinch mit überlagertem Hexapolfeld

The confinement of a plasma in a toroidal theta pinch with superposed hexapole field is investigated experimentally. The temperature and density of the plasma are measured with time and spatial resolution by means of laser scattering. The measured loss rates agree within 30% with the results of the cusp theory.     

EAST中n=4共振磁扰动下等离子体的环向旋转制动

在EAST中n=4的共振磁扰动下观察到明显的等离子体旋转制动效应,其分布具有全局性,且峰值靠近等离子体中心。利用模拟得到的新经典环向粘滞(NTV)力矩来反演等离子体环向角速度的变化,结果表明在大部分径向区域与实验测量的速度变化符合得较好,量值上相差约1～2倍。     

Precession of an electron-magnetohydrodynamic field-reversed configuration

A field-reversed configuration is generated in a large laboratory plasma in the parameter regime of electron magnetohydrodynamics. During its free relaxation, the magnetic moment is observed to precess when tilted from its original axis. The precession velocity is the electron drift velocity in the toroidal current layer. The precession is a manifestation of frozen-in field lines in a moving electron fluid.     

Observation of long-distance radial correlation in toroidal plasma turbulence

This Letter presents the discovery of macroscale electron temperature fluctuations with a long radial correlation length comparable to the plasma minor radius in a toroidal plasma. Their spatiotemporal structure is characterized by a low frequency of ～1-3 kHz, ballistic radial propagation, a poloidal or toroidal mode number of m/n=1/1 (or 2/1), and an amplitude of ～2% at maximum. Nonlinear coupling between the long-range fluctuations and the microscopic fluctuations is identified. A change of the amplitude of the long-range fluctuation is transmitted across the plasma radius at the velocity which is of the order of the drift velocity.     

Anomalous bootstrap current estimates from experimentally found values of the radial electron transport

A method of computation of anomalous bootstrap current is suggested which uses calculated or experimentally found values of the radial transport velocity. The underlying theory is the drift kinetic equation approach of Shaing to anomalous plasma transport in a toroidal configuration and/or the MHD approach of Klíma and Petrílka to convection and diffusion in a plasma cylinder under the influence of RF fields.The author thanks R. Klíma and the referee for valuable comments.