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  • 1
    ISSN: 1089-7674
    Source: AIP Digital Archive
    Topics: Physics
    Notes: A series of experiments was conducted on the DIII-D tokamak [J. L. Luxon and L. G. Davis, Fusion Technol. 8, 441 (1985)] to investigate the physical processes which limit density in high confinement mode (H-mode) discharges. The typical H-mode to low confinement mode (L-mode) transition limit at high density near the empirical Greenwald density limit [M. Greenwald et al., Nucl. Fusion 28, 2199 (1988)] was avoided by divertor pumping, which reduced divertor neutral pressure and prevented formation of a high density, intense radiation zone (MARFE) near the X-point. It was determined that the density decay time after pellet injection was independent of density relative to the Greenwald limit and increased nonlinearly with the plasma current. Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) activity in pellet-fueled plasmas was observed at all power levels, and often caused unacceptable confinement degradation, except when the neutral beam injected (NBI) power was ≤3 MW. Formation of MARFEs on closed field lines was avoided with low safety factor (q) operation but was observed at high q, qualitatively consistent with theory. By using pellet fueling and optimizing discharge parameters to avoid each of these limits, an operational space was accessed in which density ∼1.5×Greenwald limit was achieved for 600 ms, and good H-mode confinement was maintained for 300 ms of the density flat-top. More significantly, the density was successfully increased to the limit where a central radiative collapse was observed, the most fundamental density limit in tokamaks. © 1997 American Institute of Physics.
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  • 2
    ISSN: 1089-7674
    Source: AIP Digital Archive
    Topics: Physics
    Notes: Profiles of the noninductive current, driven by direct electron absorption of fast waves in the ion cyclotron range of frequencies, have been determined for DIII-D tokamak discharges [Luxon et al., Plasma Physics and Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research, 1986 (International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, 1987), Vol. 1, p. 159]. The results clearly indicate the presence of centrally peaked driven current and validate theoretical models of fast wave current drive. © 1996 American Institute of Physics.
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  • 3
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    Physics of Plasmas 2 (1995), S. 3466-3472 
    ISSN: 1089-7674
    Source: AIP Digital Archive
    Topics: Physics
    Notes: A simple model of a hot spot implosion is developed, where the key parameters are the areal density ρsRs, the central temperature Ts, and the implosion velocity v∞. The dynamics is dominated by the mechanical compressing work and the thermal conduction loss. A new type of self-similar solution is then found, describing the fluid motion in terms of ρsRs/T2s and v∞/(square root of)Ts. A scaling law for the minimum implosion velocity v∞* to reach the spark point (ρsRs,Ts) is derived: v∞*∝Ts5/2/ρsRs. The Rayleigh–Taylor (RT) instability in the stagnation phase is evaluated using the self-consistent spatial profile with density gradients, which is attributed to the thermal conduction. Substantial reduction of the RT growth is then found compared with the previous work without density gradients [Hattori et al., Phys. Fluids 29, 1719 (1986)]. © 1995 American Institute of Physics.
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  • 4
    ISSN: 1089-7674
    Source: AIP Digital Archive
    Topics: Physics
    Notes: Density fluctuations in low-collisionality, low-beta (β∼0.1%), currentless plasmas produced with electron cyclotron heating (ECH) in the Advanced Toroidal Facility (ATF) torsatron [Fusion Technol. 10, 179 (1986)] have been studied using a 2 mm microwave scattering diagnostic. Pulsed gas puffing is used to produce transient steepening of the density profile from its typically flat shape; this leads to growth in the density fluctuations when the temperature and density gradients both point in the same direction in the confinement region. The wave number spectra of the fluctuations that appear during this perturbation have a maximum at higher k⊥ρs (∼1) than is typically seen in tokamaks. The in–out asymmetry of the fluctuations along the major radius correlates with the distribution of confined trapped particles expected for the ATF magnetic field geometry. During the perturbation, the relative level of the density fluctuations in the confinement region (integrated over normalized minor radii ρ from 0.5 to 0.85) increases from ñ/n∼1% when the density profile is flat to ñ/n∼3% when the density profile is steepened. These observations are in qualitative agreement with theoretical expectations for helical dissipative trapped-electron modes (DTEMs), which are drift-wave instabilities associated with particle trapping in the helical stellarator field; they suggest that trapped-electron instabilities may play a role in constraining the shape of the density profile in ATF, but have little effect on global energy confinement. © 1995 American Institute of Physics.
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  • 5
    ISSN: 1089-7674
    Source: AIP Digital Archive
    Topics: Physics
    Notes: Because alpha particle losses can have a significant influence on tokamak reactor viability, the loss of deuterium–tritium alpha particles from the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR) [K. M. McGuire et al., Phys. Plasmas 2, 2176 (1995)] has been measured under a wide range of conditions. In TFTR, first orbit loss and stochastic toroidal field ripple diffusion are always present. Other losses can arise due to magnetohydrodynamic instabilities or due to waves in the ion cyclotron range of frequencies. No alpha particle losses have yet been seen due to collective instabilities driven by alphas. Ion Bernstein waves can drive large losses of fast ions from TFTR, and details of those losses support one element of the alpha energy channeling scenario. © 1996 American Institute of Physics.
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  • 6
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    Physics of Plasmas 3 (1996), S. 2710-2716 
    ISSN: 1089-7674
    Source: AIP Digital Archive
    Topics: Physics
    Notes: Smoothing of perturbations in a steady-state ablative flow is studied with an analytical model, in which obviously invalid boundary conditions commonly used in previous analytical models are corrected. It turns out that, through the ablation layer, the momentum flux (hence pressure) perturbation smoothes down even more appreciably than ones in the previous models. On the contrary, the mass flux perturbation decays much less effectively than the momentum flux perturbation, and its dependency on the transverse wave number, k, can be roughly reproduced with the simple cloudy day model ∝exp(−kD) for kD≤3 (D is the ablation layer thickness). It is shown that the smoothing effect is due to the interplay between the lateral fluid flow and heat conduction. © 1996 American Institute of Physics.
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  • 7
    ISSN: 1089-7674
    Source: AIP Digital Archive
    Topics: Physics
    Notes: Recent experiments in the ion cyclotron range of frequencies (ICRF) in the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor [Fusion Technol. 21, 13 (1992)] are discussed. These experiments include mode conversion heating and current drive, fast wave current drive, and heating of low (L)- mode deuterium–tritium (D–T) plasmas in both the hydrogen minority and second harmonic tritium regimes. In mode conversion heating, a central electron temperature of 10 keV was attained with 3.3 MW of radio-frequency power. In mode conversion current drive experiments, up to 130 kA of current was noninductively driven, on and off axis, and the current profiles were modified. Fast wave current drive experiments have produced 70–80 kA of noninductively driven current. Heating of L-mode deuterium and D–T plasmas by hydrogen minority ICRF has been compared. Finally, heating of L-mode D–T plasmas at the second harmonic of the tritium cyclotron frequency has been demonstrated. © 1996 American Institute of Physics.
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  • 8
    ISSN: 1089-7674
    Source: AIP Digital Archive
    Topics: Physics
    Notes: The Advanced Toroidal Facility (ATF) [Fusion Technol. 10, 179 (1986)] is the world's largest stellarator. It was designed and built to demonstrate high beta, steady-state operation in a toroidal confinement system. During its final operating period ATF achieved pulse lengths of over one hour (4667 s). The objectives of these experiments were (1) investigation of plasma performance at times that are long compared to the plasma/wall equilibrium time; (2) determination of plasma control and wall conditioning techniques; and (3) adaptation of plasma diagnostic and data acquisition systems to long-pulse operation. Other experiments have also extended earlier studies of dimensionless-parameter plasma confinement scaling. By employing two discrete electron cyclotron heating (ECH) frequencies (28 and 35 GHz), and by simultaneously modulating the ECH power, magnetic field, and plasma density, it has been possible to maintain fixed plasma beta and collisionality while modulating the normalized gyroradius. © 1995 American Institute of Physics.
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  • 9
    ISSN: 1089-7674
    Source: AIP Digital Archive
    Topics: Physics
    Notes: Discharges exhibiting the highest plasma energy and fusion reactivity yet realized in the DIII-D tokamak [Plasma Physics and Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research, 1986 (International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, 1987), Vol. I, p. 159] have been produced by combining the benefits of a hollow or weakly sheared central current profile [Phys. Plasmas 3, 1983 (1996)] with a high confinement (H mode) edge. In these discharges, low-power neutral beam injection heats the electrons during the initial current ramp, and "freezes in" a hollow or flat central current profile. When the neutral beam power is increased, formation of a region of reduced transport and highly peaked profiles in the core often results. Shortly before these plasmas would otherwise disrupt, a transition is triggered from the low (L mode) to high (H mode) confinement regimes, thereby broadening the pressure profile and avoiding the disruption. These plasmas continue to evolve until the high-performance phase is terminated nondisruptively at much higher βT (ratio of plasma pressure to toroidal magnetic field pressure) than would be attainable with peaked profiles and an L-mode edge. Transport analysis indicates that in this phase, the ion diffusivity is equivalent to that predicted by Chang–Hinton neoclassical theory over the entire plasma volume. This result is consistent with suppression of turbulence by locally enhanced E×B flow shear, and is supported by observations of reduced fluctuations in the plasma. Calculations of performance in these discharges extrapolated to a deuterium–tritium (DT) fuel mixture indicates that such plasmas could produce a DT fusion gain QDT=0.32. © 1997 American Institute of Physics.
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  • 10
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    Journal of Applied Physics 86 (1999), S. 5705-5711 
    ISSN: 1089-7550
    Source: AIP Digital Archive
    Topics: Physics
    Notes: The flux pinning behavior of ternary melt-processed (Nd–Eu–Gd)Ba2Cu3Oy superconductors is studied with varying Gd2BaCuO5 second-phase (Gd-211) defect concentrations using magnetotransport and magnetization measurements. The critical current density, Jc increases with the addition of Gd-211 particles displaying a maximum value of Jc for 30% at zero and in intermediate field range and decreases on further addition of Gd-211 particles. A pronounced field-induced bump feature in the resistivity was observed. The dynamic scaling of the resistance suggests the low temperature phase as the vortex-glass phase. The current–voltage characteristics over the whole transition temperature regime show a linear flux–flow type behavior that favors the phenomenon of vortex entanglement in the liquid phase. The Nd/Ba substitution sites along with Gd-211 second-phase particles refined by the addition of a small amount of Pt are one of the possible reasons for the vortex entanglement in the liquid phase. The in-plane and out-of-plane resistance measurements clearly show the correlation of the vortices in the liquid state favoring some influence of twin planes and occasionally occurring natural grain boundaries on the liquid state as well. These defects give rise to high critical current density at low temperature with significant enhancement in pinning favoring the glassy phase to occur. © 1999 American Institute of Physics.
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