OVERVIEW OF RESULTS FROM THE ATF TORSATRON

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作者
COLCHIN, RJ
MURAKAMI, M
ANABITARTE, E
ANDERSON, FSB
BELL, GL
BELL, JD
BIGELOW, TS
CRUME, EC
DUNLAP, JL
DYER, GR
ENGLAND, AC
FISHER, PW
GABBARD, WA
GLOWIENKA, JC
GOULDING, RH
HALLIWELL, JW
HANSON, GR
HARRIS, JH
HASTE, GR
HIDALGOVERA, C
HILLIS, DL
HIROE, S
HORTON, LD
HOWE, HC
HUTCHINSON, DP
ISLER, RC
JERNIGAN, TC
KWON, M
LANGLEY, RA
LEE, DK
LYON, JF
LUE, JW
MA, CH
MENON, MM
MORRIS, RN
MIODUSZEWSKI, PK
NEILSON, GH
QUALLS, AL
RASMUSSEN, DA
ROGERS, PS
SHAW, PL
SHEPARD, TD
SIMPKINS, JE
SUDO, S
THOMAS, CE
UCKAN, T
WADE, MR
WILGEN, JB
WING, WR
YAMADA, H
机构
[1] Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge
[2] Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas, Medioambientales, Y Tecnologicas, Madrid
[3] University of Wisconsin, Madison
[4] Computing and Telecommunications Division, Martin Marietta Energy Systems, Inc., Oak Ridge
[5] Auburn University, Auburn
[6] Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta
[7] University of Tennessee, Knoxville
[8] Kyoto University, Kyoto
[9] National Institute of Fusion Science, Nagoya
[10] Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy
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PHYSICS OF FLUIDS B-PLASMA PHYSICS | 1990年 / 2卷 / 06期
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10.1063/1.859554
中图分类号
O35 [流体力学]; O53 [等离子体物理学];
学科分类号
070204 ; 080103 ; 080704 ;
摘要
Experiments involving plasma improvement, confinement scaling, bootstrap currents, and edge fluctuations have been carried out in the Advanced Toroidal Facility (ATF) torsatron [Fusion Technol. 10, 179 (1986)]. Average densities n̄e≤9x1019m-3 have been obtained, with global energy confinement times τE*≤20 msec. Confinement times generally follow the stellarator/torsatron empirical scaling law, τSL = 0.17XP-0.58ne 0.69B0.84a2R0.75 (with τSL in seconds, power P in megawatts, density ne in 1020 m-3, and plasma radius a and major radius R in meters). Gas injection during neutral beam injection (NBI) causes increases in ne, so that τE* does not decrease during NBI. Edge plasma fluctuations are found to exhibit a mode change near the peak of the energy confinement time. Plasma currents observed during electron cyclotron heating have been identified as bootstrap currents. © 1990 American Institute of Physics.
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页码:1347 / 1352
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