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Nondimensional transport scaling in the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor: Is tokamak transport Bohm or gyro‐Bohm?

 

作者: F. W. Perkins,   Cris W. Barnes,   D. W. Johnson,   S. D. Scott,   M. C. Zarnstorff,   M. G. Bell,   R. E. Bell,   C. E. Bush,   B. Grek,   K. W. Hill,   D. K. Mansfield,   H. Park,   A. T. Ramsey,   J. Schivell,   B. C. Stratton,   E. Synakowski,  

 

期刊: Physics of Fluids B: Plasma Physics  (AIP Available online 1993)
卷期: Volume 5, issue 2  

页码: 477-498

 

ISSN:0899-8221

 

年代: 1993

 

DOI:10.1063/1.860534

 

出版商: AIP

 

数据来源: AIP

 

摘要:

General plasma physics principles state that power flowQ(r) through a magnetic surface in a tokamak should scale asQ(r)= {32&pgr;2Rr3Te2c nea/[eB(a2−r2)2]}F(&rgr;*,&bgr;,&ngr;*,r/a,q,s,r/R,...) where the arguments ofFare local, nondimensional plasma parameters and nondimensional gradients. This paper reports an experimental determination of howFvaries with normalized gyroradius &rgr;*≡(2TeMi)1/2c/eBaand collisionality &ngr;*≡(R/r)3/2qR&ngr;e(me/ 2Te)1/2for discharges prepared so that other nondimensional parameters remain close to constant. Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR) [D. M. Meadeetal., inPlasmaPhysicsandControlledNuclearFusionResearch, 1990, Proceedings of the 13th International Conference, Washington (International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, 1991), Vol. 1, p. 9] L‐mode data showFto be independent of &rgr;* and numerically small, corresponding to Bohm scaling with a small multiplicative constant. By contrast, most theories predict gyro‐Bohm scaling:F∝&rgr;*. Bohm scaling implies that the largest scale size for microinstability turbulence depends on machine size. Analysis of a collisionality scan finds Bohm‐normalized power flow to be independent of collisionality. Implications for future theory, experiment, and reactor extrapolations are discussed.  

 

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