Download or read book Physics of Collisionless Scrape off layer Plasma During Normal and Off normal Tokamak Operating Conditions written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The structure of a collisionless scrape-off-layer (SOL) plasma in tokamak reactors is being studied to define the electron distribution function and the corresponding sheath potential between the divertor plate and the edge plasma. The collisionless model is shown to be valid during the thermal phase of a plasma disruption, as well as during the newly desired low-recycling normal phase of operation with low-density, high-temperature, edge plasma conditions. An analytical solution is developed by solving the Fokker-Planck equation for electron distribution and balance in the SOL. The solution is in good agreement with numerical studies using Monte-Carlo methods. The analytical solutions provide an insight to the role of different physical and geometrical processes in a collisionless SOL during disruptions and during the enhanced phase of normal operation over a wide range of parameters.
Download or read book Transport driven Scrape off Layer Flows and the Boundary Conditions Imposed at the Magnetic Separatrix in a Tokamak Plasma written by Brian LaBombard and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Cont.) Experiments suggest that topology-dependent flow boundary conditions may also play a role in the sensitivity of L-H power threshold to x-point location: in a set of otherwise similar discharges, the L-H transition is seen to be coincident with central rotation achieving roughly the same value, independent of magnetic topology. For discharges with BxGradB pointing away from the x-point (i.e., with the SOL flow boundary condition impeding co-current rotation), the same characteristic rotation can only be achieved with higher input power.
Download or read book The Plasma Boundary of Magnetic Fusion Devices written by P.C Stangeby and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Plasma Boundary of Magnetic Fusion Devices introduces the physics of the plasma boundary region, including plasma-surface interactions, with an emphasis on those occurring in magnetically confined fusion plasmas. The book covers plasma-surface interaction, Debye sheaths, sputtering, scrape-off layers, plasma impurities, recycling and control, 1D and 2D fluid and kinetic modeling of particle transport, plasma properties at the edge, diverter and limiter physics, and control of the plasma boundary. Divided into three parts, the book begins with Part 1, an introduction to the plasma boundary. The derivations are heuristic and worked problems help crystallize physical intuition, which is emphasized throughout. Part 2 provides an introduction to methods of modeling the plasma edge region and for interpreting computer code results. Part 3 presents a collection of essays on currently active research hot topics. With an extensive bibliography and index, this book is an invaluable first port-of-call for researchers interested in plasma-surface interactions.
Download or read book Theory of Tokamak Plasmas written by R.B. White and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2017-01-31 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a graduate textbook on tokamak physics, designed to provide a basic introduction to plasma equilibrium, particle orbits, transport, and those ideal and resistive magnetohydrodynamic instabilities which dominate the behavior of a tokamak discharge, and to develop the mathematical methods necessary for their theoretical analysis.
Download or read book Detached Scrape off Layer Tokamak Plasmas written by Jay Kesner and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Experimental Study of the Edge Plasma of the Tore Supra Tokamak written by Martin Kubic and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2012-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of edge plasma physics in tokamaks has developed rapidly in recent years and is now considered as one of the major research areas of magnetic fusion. Edge probe techniques are a necessary experimental contribution to such studies, providing information about the plasma flux to the walls of the reactor. The experiments that were carried out on the Tore Supra tokamak to investigate the scrape-off layer conditions in presence of multiple discrete limiters are presented. The baseline of the scenario is to limit the discharge on discrete limiters on the low field side of the tokamak chamber, increasing the minor radius while the safety factor is kept at a constant value 4.8. Analytical tools for 3D magnetic connection analysis and magnetic field mapping together with a new method for LCFS evaluation are also presented."
Download or read book Simulation of the Scrape off Layer Plasma During a Disruption written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The evolution of the scrape-off layer (SOL) during a disruption in the DIII-D tokamak is modeled using the 2-D UEDGE transport code. The focus is on the thermal quench phase when most of the energy content of the discharge is rapidly transported across the magnetic separatrix where it then flows to material surfaces or is radiated. Comparisons between the simulation and an experiment on the DIII-D tokamak are made with the heat flux to the divertor plate, and temperature and density profiles at the SOL midplane. The temporal response of the separate electron and ion heat-flux components to the divertor plate is calculated. The sensitivity of the solution to assumptions of electron heat-flux models and impurity radiation is investigated.
Download or read book Cross field Particle Transport in the Edge of Plasma of Tokamak Experiments and Implications for ITER written by Brian LaBombard and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Particle transport in the edge plasma and scrape-off layer will play a key role in the performance and operation of a tokamak fusion reactor: setting the width of the scrape-off layer density profile and its impurity screening characteristics, regulating the energetic particle fluxes onto first-wall components and associated impurity generation rates, and determining the effectiveness of the divertor in receiving particle exhaust and controlling neutral pressures in the main-chamber. The processes which govern particle transport involve plasma turbulence, phenomena which can not yet be reliably computed from a first-principles numerical simulation. Thus, in order to project to a reactor-scale experiment, such as ITER, one must first develop an understanding of particle transport phenomena based on experimental measurements in existing plasma fusion devices. Over the past few years of research, a number of fundamental advances in the understanding of the cross-field particle transport physics have occurred, replacing crude, incorrect, and often misleading transport models such as the "constant diffusion coefficient" model with a more appropriate description of the phenomenon. It should be noted that this description applies to transport processes in the absence of ELM phenomenon, i.e., physics underlying the "background" plasma state. In this letter, we first review the experimental support for this understanding which is based extensively on data from L-mode discharges and from H-mode discharges at time intervals without ELMs. We then comment on its implications for ITER.
Download or read book Large Probes in Tokamak Scrape off Plasmas Analytic Model for the Collisionless Scrape off Plasma written by P. C. Stangeby and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Poloidal Asymmetries in the Scrape off Layer Plasma of the Alcator C Tokamak written by Brian LaBombard and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Boundary Conditions for Tokamak Transport Equations from Scrape off Layer Modelling written by Kurt Borrass and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Active Tokamak Limiters Symmetrizing the Edge Plasma written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The surface layers of tokamak plasmas are strongly unstable to low frequency oscillations. The limiter, by imposing a non-axisymmetric state in the plasma scrape-off layer, may be the source of the free energy driving the instabilities. An active, two-faced sandwich limiter is proposed to symmetrize the scrape-off layer, thereby minimizing the mismatch between the inner and outer tokamak states.
Download or read book Generation of Non axisymmetric Scrape off Layer Perturbations for Controlling Tokamak Edge Plasma Profiles and Stability written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fusion Energy Update written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Plasma Physics Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 936 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
