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Influence of plasma shape on transport in the TCV Tokamak
The energy confinement time of TCV Ohmic, L-mode discharges is observed to depend strongly on the plasma shape, improving slightly with elongation and degrading strongly as triangularity is increased from zero to positive values. The thermal conductivity of these plasmas is found to be independent of the shape. This observation, combined with geometrical effects on the temperature gradient and a degradation with increasing input energy flux, can explain the observed variation in the energy confinement time.
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research article
Web of Science ID
WOS:A1997XV83500025
Authors
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Franke, S.
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Anton, M.
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Nieswand, C.
Publication date
1997
Published in
Volume
79
Issue
11
Start page
2057
End page
2060
Peer reviewed
REVIEWED
Available on Infoscience
April 16, 2008
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