Internal transport barrier with improved confinement in the JT-60U tokamak

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作者
Koide, Y [1 ]
Takizuka, T [1 ]
Takeji, S [1 ]
Ishida, S [1 ]
Kikuchi, M [1 ]
Kamada, Y [1 ]
Ozeki, T [1 ]
Neyatani, Y [1 ]
Shirai, H [1 ]
Mori, M [1 ]
TsujiIio, S [1 ]
机构
[1] TOKYO INST TECHNOL,MEGURO KU,TOKYO 152,JAPAN
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10.1088/0741-3335/38/7/006
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O35 [流体力学]; O53 [等离子体物理学];
学科分类号
070204 ; 080103 ; 080704 ;
摘要
Characteristics of the internal transport barrier (ITB) were studied. The region of steep del T-i and del V-t, i.e. the ITB front, propagated from the core outwards. The thickness of the ITB front was about 3 cm. The ITB worked as a particle transport barrier as well as a thermal transport barrier for ions. The threshold heating power for ITB formation strongly increased with electron density and was independent of the toroidal magnetic field. ITB with tau(E)/tau(E)(ITER89-P) approximate to 2.6 was sustained for twice the global energy confinement time tau(E). A repetitive relaxation phenomenon at ITB was observed, which induced D-alpha spikes like ELMs but had a different poloidal distribution.
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页码:1011 / 1022
页数:12
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