Dynamics of the LH-transition in TUMAN-3M tokamak in the scenarios with cryogenic pellet injection. (3rd October 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Belokurov, A.A.; Askinazi, L.G.; Chôné, L.; Gusakov, E.Z.; Kiviniemi, T.P.; Kornev, V.A.; Korpilo, T.; Krikunov, S.V.; Lebedev, S.V.; Leerink, S.; Niskala, P.; Rochford, R.; Smirnov, A.I.; Tukachinsky, A.S.; Zhubr, N.A.
• Is Part Of: Nuclear fusion. Volume 58:Number 11(2018:Nov.)
• Publication Date: 2018-10-03
• Subjects: tokamak -- LH-transition -- pellet injection -- turbulence -- radial electric field; Nuclear fusion -- Periodicals; 621.48405
• DOI: 10.1088/1741-4326/aac4e9
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0029-5515

Abstract

Abstract: In the experiments on tangential fuel pellet injection in the TUMAN-3M tokamak an initiation of LH-transition or, in several scenarios—temporal (1–2 ms) confinement improvement with the following backwards transition was observed. To understand the possibility of the transitions, a model calculating the evolution of density and ion temperature profiles under the effect of source profile perturbation and plasma cooling created by pellet evaporation was developed. In the model, a diffusion coefficient depending on radial electric field shear value was used. Turbulence parameters are defined using a gyrokinetic simulation of the experiments with ELMFIRE code. Modeling results are in good agreement with experiments. Using the data obtained from the modeling, non-linear particle flux dependency on density gradient was analyzed; the existence of two stabile solutions for two confinement modes dependent on particle flux value was proved, in agreement with experiments.