Download or read book Spectroscopic Measurements of Impurity Temperatures and Parallel Ion Flows in the DIII D Divertor written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Impurity ion temperatures and parallel flow velocities in the DIII-D divertor have been measured from the shapes and shifts of visible spectral lines of C II, C III, and B II. Spectral multiplet patterns are analyzed by fitting them to theoretical profiles that incorporate exact calculations for the Zeeman/Paschen-Back effect. Ion temperatures range from 4--20 eV. Both normal flows toward the target plate and reversed flows away from the target plate are observed in the outer divertor leg; only flows toward the plate are detected in the inner leg.
Download or read book Advanced Diagnostics for Magnetic and Inertial Fusion written by Peter E. Stott and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-06-28 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Diagnostics for Magnetic and Inertial Fusion, held September 3-7, 2001 at Villa Monastero, Varenna, Italy. This volume focuses on future diagnostic requirements for fusion energy research emphasizing advanced diagnostics, new techniques and areas where further progress is required.
Download or read book Impurity Ion Flow and Temperature Measured in a Detached Divertor with Externally Applied Non axisymmetric Fields on DIII D written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study, externally applied non-axisymmetric magnetic fields are shown to have little effect on the impurity ion flow velocity and temperature as measured by the multichord divertor spectrometer in the DIII-D divertor for both attached and detached conditions. These experiments were performed in H-mode plasmas with the grad-B drift toward the target plates, with and without n = 3 resonant magnetic perturbations (RMPs). The flow velocity in the divertor is shown to change by as much as 30% when deuterium gas puffing is used to create detachment of the divertor plasma. No measurable changes in the C III flow were observed in response to the RMP fields for the conditions used in this work. Images of the C III emission are used along with divertor Thomson scattering to show that the local electron and C III temperatures are equilibrated for the conditions shown.
Download or read book Measurements of Divertor Impurity Concentrations on DIII D written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carbon emissions in the DIII-D divertor during partial detachment have been measured, and the deduced radiated power and the temporal behavior of the impurity emissions from spectroscopy are in good agreement with bolometer measurements. Effective electron temperatures from line ratios for CIV (9-11 eV) and CIII (6-8 eV) are correlated with DTS measured electron temperatures to determine the spatial location of the carbon radiation zone. During PDD operation, the bulk of the divertor radiation is emitted from CIV near the X- point while deuterium radiation is strongest near the outer strikepoint. The carbon ion concentrations are in the range of 1% - 4% of the electron density.
Download or read book Experimental Measurements and Modeling of Impurity Transport in the Divertor and Boundary Plasma of DIII D written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analysis of trace impurity injection experiments on DIII-D during a beam power scan is presented. Spectroscopic measu- rements indicate that as beam power is increased, and concomitantly ELM frequency and scrape-off-layer thickness increase while energy confinement decreases, the core impurity content decreases only slightly. Modeling of the edge plasma using the UEDGE 2D and NEWT1D plasma fluid codes indicate that as beam power is increased, the parallel forces on an impurity ion increase in the direction from the divertor and toward the core plasma. Experiments using the divertor cryopump to induce higher parallel particle flow toward the divertor demonstrate significant reduction in core impurity content. These results indicate that parallel forces on impurity ions in the scrape off layer are playing a significant role in core impurity content.
Download or read book Spectral Line Shapes written by Christina A. Back and published by American Inst. of Physics. This book was released on 2002-12-06 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This conference is an international forum to discuss fundamental and applied research associated with the formation of spectral line profiles. It includes research involving line profiles observed in absorption, emission, and scattering by laboratory and astrophysical sources. The conference brings together specialists from many diverse fields to discuss common aspects of line shape theory and experiments. Areas covered in the conference included: laser-produced plasmas, magnetically confined plasmas, stellar atmospheres, molecular and atomic systems, high-resolution spectroscopic applications and measurements, collision-induced effects, and ultracold regimes. Papers on experiments, theory, and applications are included in this volume.
Download or read book Spectroscopic Measurements of Carbon Ions Flow Velocities in RFX and in the Divertor of DIII D written by Barbara Zaniol and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Measurements of Flows in the DIII D Divertor by Mach Probes written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First measurements of Mach number of background plasma in the DIII-D divertor are presented in conjunction with temperature T{sub e} and density n{sub e} using a fast scanning probe array. To validate the probe measurements, the authors compared the T{sub e}, n{sub e} and J{sub sat} data to Thomson scattering data and find good overall agreement in attached discharges and some discrepancy for T{sub e} and n{sub e} in detached discharges. The discrepancy is mostly due to the effect of large fluctuations present during detached plasmas on the probe characteristic; the particle flux is accurately measured in every case. A composite 2-D map of measured flows is presented for an ELMing H-mode discharge and they focus on some of the details. They have also documented the temperature, density and Mach number in the private flux region of the divertor and the vicinity of the X-point, which are important transition regions that have been little studied or modeled. Background parallel plasma flows and electric fields in the divertor region show a complex structure.
Download or read book Energy Research Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 1994-11 with total page 486 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 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Modeling of Impurity Spectroscopy in the Divertor and SOL of DIII D Using the 1D Multifluid Model NEWT1D written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEWT1D, a one dimensional multifluid model of the scrape-off layer and divertor plasma, has been used to model the plasma including the distribution of carbon ionization states in the SOL and divertor of ELMing H-mode at two injected power levels in DIII-D. Comparison of the code predictions to the measured divertor and scrape-off layer (SOL) plasma density and temperature shows good agreement. Comparison of the predicted line emissions to the spectroscopic data suggests that physically sputtered carbon from the strike point is not transported up the flux tube; a distributed source of carbon a few centimeters up the flux tube is required to achieve reasonable agreement.
Download or read book 23rd European Physical Society Conference on Controlled Fusion and Plasma Physics written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Plasma Flow in the DIII D Divertor written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 5 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indications that flows in the divertor can exhibit complex behavior have been obtained from 2-D modeling but so far remain mostly unconfirmed by experiment. An important feature of flow physics is that of flow reversal. Flow reversal has been predicted analytically and it is expected when the ionization source arising from neutral or impurity ionization in the divertor region is large, creating a high pressure zone. Plasma flows arise to equilibrate the pressure. A radiative divertor regime has been proposed in order to reduce the heat and particle fluxes to the divertor target plates. In this regime, the energy and momentum of the plasma are dissipated into neutral gas introduced in the divertor region, cooling the plasma by collisional, radiative and other atomic processes so that the plasma becomes detached from the target plates. These regimes have been the subject of extensive studies in DIII-D to evaluate their energy and particle transport properties, but only recently it has been proposed that the energy transport over large regions of the divertor must be dominated by convection instead of conduction. It is therefore important to understand the role of the plasma conditions and geometry on determining the region of convection-dominated plasma in order to properly control the heat and particle fluxes to the target plates and hence, divertor performance. The authors have observed complex structures in the deuterium ion flows in the DIII-D divertor. Features observed include reverse flow, convective flow over a large volume of the divertor and stagnant flow. They have measured large gradients in the plasma potential across the separatrix in the divertor and determined that these gradients induce poloidal flows that can potentially affect the particle balance in the divertor.
Download or read book First Measurements of the Ion Energy Distribution at the Divertor Strike Point During DIII D Disruptions written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plasma disruptions are a serious concern in tokamak design because of the high impulsive heat loads which can cause strong erosion of divertor materials due to enhanced sputtering, or melting/ablation in the most severe cases. Predictions of net erosion rates and hence component lifetimes are very difficult and are highly dependent on the plasma conditions over the divertor target. It is therefore necessary to characterize the properties of the scrape-off plasma near the divertor target plate under these special conditions. Here, plasma/wall interaction studies are being carried out using the Divertor Materials Exposure System (DiMES) on DIII-D. The objective of the experiment is to determine the kinetic energy and flux of deuterium ions reaching the divertor target during argon-induced radiative disruptions. The experiment utilizes a special slotted ion analyzer mounted over a Si sample to collect the fast charge-exchange (CX) deuterium neutrals emitted within the recycled cold neutral layer (CNL) which serves as a CX target for the incident ions. A theoretical interpretation of the experiment reveals a strong forward pitch-angle dependence in the approaching ion distribution function. The depth distribution of the trapped D in the Si sample was measured using low-energy direct recoil spectroscopy. Comparison with the TRIM code using monoenergetic ions indicated that the best fit to the data was obtained for an ion energy of 100 eV. An estimate of the CNL thickness[integral]nd[ell] indicates that during disruptions the CNL cushion is thick enough to reduce the local ion heat load by[approximately]30% due to CX refluxing.
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Download or read book Analysis of Particle Flow in the DIII D SOL and Divertor written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The scrape-off layer (SOL) and divertor plasma in the DEEI-D tokamak has been modeled using the 2-D fluid code UEDGE. The resulting simulated plasmas are compared in detail with the numerous diagnostics available on the device. Good agreement is obtained between the experimental measurements and the simulations when relatively small values of the assumed anomalous perpendicular transport coefficients are used. We use a purely diffusive model for perpendicular transport, with transport coefficients which are constant in space. The value of each of these transport coefficients is varied in the simulation to match the measured upstream density and temperature profiles. The resulting plasma parameters are then compared with all other diagnostics which measure parameters at various poloidal locations in the SOL.
Download or read book Compatibility of the Radiating Divertor with High Performance Plasmas in DIII D written by S. Allen and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excessive thermal power loading on the divertor structures presents a design difficulty for future-generation, high powered tokamaks. This difficulty may be mitigated by ''seeding'' the divertor with impurities which radiate a significant fraction of the power upstream of the divertor targets. For this ''radiating divertor'' concept to be practical, however, the confinement and stability of the plasma cannot be compromised by excessive leakage of the seeded impurities into the core plasma. One proposed way of reducing impurity influx is to enhance the directed scrape-off layer (SOL) flow of deuterium ions toward the divertor [1-5]. We report here on the successful application of the radiating divertor scenario to high performance plasma operation in a DIII-D ''hybrid'' H-mode regime. The ''hybrid'' regime [6,7] has many features in common with conventional ELMing H-mode regimes, such as high confinement, e.g., H{sub ITER89P}> 2, where H{sub ITER89P} is the energy confinement normalized to the 1989 ITER L-mode scaling [8]. The main difference is the absence of sawtooth activity in the hybrid. Argon was selected as the seeded impurity for this experiment because argon radiates effectively at both the divertor and pedestal temperatures found in DIII-D hybrid H-mode operation and has a relatively short ionization mean free path. Carbon is also present as the dominant intrinsic impurity in DIII-D discharges. The geometry of this experiment is shown in Fig. 1. A double-null cross-sectional shape was biased upward (dRsep = +1.0 cm). To increase the deuterium ion flow toward the divertor at the top of the vessel, deuterium gas was introduced near the bottom. Argon was injected directly into the private flux region (PFR) of the upper divertor. In-vessel pumping of deuterium and argon was done by cryopumps located in the two upper divertor plenums, shown in cross-hatching [9]. The upper divertor, which we hereafter will simply refer to as the ''divertor'', is the region lying above the dashed line in Fig. 1, and is relatively ''closed''.
