EFFECT OF LOCALISED ELECTRON CYCLOTRON HEATING ON ENERGY CONFINEMENT AND MHD IN TCV
Within the range of plasma shapes and plasma currents investigated, the electron confinement time, tau_Ee, increases with safety factor, density and negative triangularity similar to the Ohmic heating case. There is little dependence of tau_Ee on the heating location provided power deposition occurs inside the q=1 surface; as power deposition moves out of the inversion surface, tau_Ee decreases. The power-induced energy confinement degradation exponent (tau_Ee~PaP) is as usual: alpha_P ~-0.5. As a general trend, central relaxations decrease in amplitude with increasing qa, P_EC, or negative delta, in a situation where the confinement time increases.
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