Experimental determination of the transient transport and of fluctuations relevant to transport in ASDEX

Particle transport was studied in ASDEZ with modulated puffing of the discharge gas and of impurities. The energy transport is investigated by numerical simulation of the heat pulse after the swatooth crash. Small scale density fluctuations are investigated in the confinement region with far infrared scattering and reflectometry and in the edge plasma with langmuir probes and Ha diagnostic. In addition to a diffuse component of the particle transport, a strong inward drift is observed in all discharges. In ohmic discharges the transport coefficients decrease and saturate like 1/TE with increasing density. They are smaller in deuterium that in hydrogen. In the improved ohmic confinement (IOC)regime mainly D in the outer region is reduced. D increases proportionally to the heating power in L-mode discharges. The improvement of particle confinement in the H-mode is explained by a increase of the inward drift at the edge rather than a decrease of D. The impurity diffusion coefficient is independent of the impurity mass and charge. In ohmic discharges, it varies with ne like the bulk diffusion coefficient, is independent of B or increases weakly with B and increases with Ip. In L-mode discharges, Dimp increases linearly with the heating power. The electron thermal condustivity determined by heat pulse propagation exceeds the stationary value by a factor of 3-4, assuming merely diffusive heat transport. Convection does not significantly reduce this factor. however, non-diagonal terms

Pellet imaging techniques on ASDEX

As part of a USDOE/ASDEX collaboration, a detailed examination of pellet ablation in ASDEX with a variety of diagnostics has allowed a better understanding of a number of features of hydrogen ice pellet ablation in a plasma. In particular, fast gated photos with an intensified Xybion CCD video camera allow in-situ velocity measurements of the pellet as it penetrates the plasma. With time resolution of typically 100 nanoseconds and exposures every 50 microseconds, the evolution of each pellet in a multi-pellet ASDEX tokamak plasma discharge can be followed. When the pellet cloud track has striations, the light intensity profile through the cloud is hollow (dark near the pellet), whereas at the beginning or near the end of the pellet trajectory the track is typically smooth (without striations) and has a gaussian-peaked light emission profile. New, single pellet Stark broadened D{sub {alpha}}D{sub {beta}}, and D{sub {gamma}} spectra, obtained with a tangentially viewing scanning mirror/spectrometer with Reticon array readout, are consistent with cloud densities of 2 {times} 10{sup 17}cm{sup {minus}3} or higher in the regions of strongest light emission. A spatially resolved array of D{sub {alpha}} detectors shows that the light variations during the pellet ablation are not caused solely by a modulation of the incoming energy flux as the pellet crosses rational q-surfaces, but instead are a result of a dynamic, non-stationary, ablation process. 20 refs., 4 figs

Untersuchung transportrelevanter Fluktuationen in der Randschicht von ASDEX

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Untersuchung der Randschichtfluktuationen am Divertor-Tokamak ASDEX

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