ISSN:
1089-7623
Source:
AIP Digital Archive
Topics:
Physics
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Electrical Engineering, Measurement and Control Technology
Notes:
A probe consisting of two poloidally separated triple probes and a Mach probe (TMT probe) has been designed and installed on the H-1 heliac to study fluctuations. Mach probes are shown to be sensitive to the fluctuations in the electron density, electron and ion temperatures, and ion drift velocity. If the ion Larmor radius is much larger than the characteristic probe dimension, then the Mach probe is insensitive to the magnetic field. When the Mach probe is oriented such that the two tips are separated radially, it becomes sensitive to the radial velocity of the ions. A model has been devised to allow the above mentioned time-resolved plasma parameters to be reconstructed from the data obtained using the TMT probe. One of the important results of these studies is that ion temperature fluctuations cannot be neglected. © 2001 American Institute of Physics.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1318244
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