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Extended investigations of isotope effects on ECRH plasma in LHD. / Morisaki, T.; Tanaka, K.; Nakata, M. et al.
In: Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, Vol. 62, No. 2, 024006, 01.01.2020.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Extended investigations of isotope effects on ECRH plasma in LHD
AU - Morisaki, T.
AU - Tanaka, K.
AU - Nakata, M.
AU - Ohtani, Y.
AU - Tokuzawa, T.
AU - Yamada, H.
AU - Warmer, F.
AU - Nunami, M.
AU - Satake, S.
AU - Tala, T.
AU - Tsujimura, T.
AU - Takemura, Y.
AU - Kinoshita, T.
AU - Takahashi, H.
AU - Yokoyama, M.
AU - Seki, R.
AU - Igami, H.
AU - Yoshimura, Y.
AU - Kubo, S.
AU - Shimozuma, T.
AU - Akiyama, T.
AU - Yamada, I.
AU - Yasuhara, R.
AU - Funaba, H.
AU - Yoshinuma, M.
AU - Ida, K.
AU - Goto, M.
AU - Motojima, G.
AU - Shoji, M.
AU - Masuzaki, S.
AU - Michael, C. A.
AU - Vacheslavov, L. N.
AU - Osakabe, M.
AU - Morisaki, T.
PY - 2020/1/1
Y1 - 2020/1/1
N2 - Isotope effects of ECRH plasma in LHD were investigated in detail. A clear difference of transport and turbulence characteristics in H and D plasmas was found in the core region, with normalized radius ρ < 0.8 in high collisionality regime. On the other hand, differences of transport and turbulence were relatively small in low collisionality regime. Power balance analysis and neoclassical calculation showed a reduction of the anomalous contribution to electron and ion transport in D plasma compared with H plasma in the high collisionality regime. In core region, density modulation experiments also showed more reduced particle diffusion in D plasma than in H plasma, in the high collisionality regime. Ion scale turbulence was clearly reduced at ρ < 0.8 in high collisionality regime in D plasma compared with H plasma. The gyrokinetic linear analyses showed that the dominant instability ρ = 0.5 and 0.8 were ion temperature gradient mode (ITG). The linear growth rate of ITG was reduced in D plasma than in H plasma in high collisionality regime. This is due to the lower normalized ITG and density gradient. More hollowed density profile in D plasma is likely to be the key control parameter. Present analyses suggest that anomalous process play a role to make hollower density profiles in D plasma rather than neoclassical process. Electron scale turbulence were also investigated from the measurements and linear gyrokinetic simulations.
AB - Isotope effects of ECRH plasma in LHD were investigated in detail. A clear difference of transport and turbulence characteristics in H and D plasmas was found in the core region, with normalized radius ρ < 0.8 in high collisionality regime. On the other hand, differences of transport and turbulence were relatively small in low collisionality regime. Power balance analysis and neoclassical calculation showed a reduction of the anomalous contribution to electron and ion transport in D plasma compared with H plasma in the high collisionality regime. In core region, density modulation experiments also showed more reduced particle diffusion in D plasma than in H plasma, in the high collisionality regime. Ion scale turbulence was clearly reduced at ρ < 0.8 in high collisionality regime in D plasma compared with H plasma. The gyrokinetic linear analyses showed that the dominant instability ρ = 0.5 and 0.8 were ion temperature gradient mode (ITG). The linear growth rate of ITG was reduced in D plasma than in H plasma in high collisionality regime. This is due to the lower normalized ITG and density gradient. More hollowed density profile in D plasma is likely to be the key control parameter. Present analyses suggest that anomalous process play a role to make hollower density profiles in D plasma rather than neoclassical process. Electron scale turbulence were also investigated from the measurements and linear gyrokinetic simulations.
KW - energy transport
KW - isotope effect
KW - particle transport
KW - stellarator
KW - turbulence
KW - CONFINEMENT
KW - PARTICLE-TRANSPORT
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85081317971&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1088/1361-6587/ab5bae
DO - 10.1088/1361-6587/ab5bae
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85081317971
VL - 62
JO - Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
JF - Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
SN - 0741-3335
IS - 2
M1 - 024006
ER -
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