Experimental evidence of very short power decay lengths in H-mode discharges in the COMPASS tokamak

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/61389021:_____/24:00581974

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6587/ad08f0" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6587/ad08f0</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1361-6587/ad08f0" target="_blank" >10.1088/1361-6587/ad08f0</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Experimental evidence of very short power decay lengths in H-mode discharges in the COMPASS tokamak

Original language description

Analysis of the heat fluxes in the scrape-off layer (SOL) plasma is important for prediction of divertor tile heat loads in future reactor-sized tokamak machines. Typically, the radial heat flux profile can be accurately characterized by the decay length parameter λ q . The predictions are then based on the dependence of λ q on plasma and machine parameters. In the recent years, several empirical scaling models were derived from a collective database of decay lengths observed in several large tokamaks as well as two spherical tokamaks. Most recently, a report from the TCV tokamak showed a deviation from several of the proposed models. In this work, ~ 100 edge plasma profiles of ELMy H-mode discharges were collected from the COMPASS tokamak database for heat flux analysis. The COMPASS tokamak has similar machine size and plasma parameters to the TCV tokamak offering a valuable comparison. The λ q was measured in both the downstream and the upstream SOL utilizing a divertor probe array validated by an IR camera and the Thomson scattering diagnostics. A comparison with the predictions of several scaling models indicated an occurrence of anomalously short (by a factor of 2–5) inter-ELM power decay lengths in both upstream and downstream, as well as a difference in λ q between these two regions. Possible causes related to the accuracy of magnetic reconstruction were eliminated and physics-based sources of apparent compression effects were hypothesized as a motivation for future research.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10305 - Fluids and plasma physics (including surface physics)

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion

ISSN

0741-3335

e-ISSN

1361-6587

Volume of the periodical

66

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

001121381400001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85181871318