The effects of plasma shape on confinement and sawtooth stability are studied for positive and negative discharge triangularity and for different elongations with 1.5 MW centrally deposited ECH power
Title
Energy Confinement in Shaped TCV Plasmas with Electron Cyclotron Heating
Published in
ECA, Europhysics Conference Abstracts
Pagination
4
Series
ECA, Europhysics Conference Abstracts, Volume 22A
Volume
23J (1999)
Pages
1089
Conference
26th EPS Conf. on Contr. Fusion and Plasma Physics, Maastricht, Netherlands, June 1999
Date
1999
Publisher
Mulhouse, France, European Physical Society
Note
Energy confinement enhancement at negative triangularity. Normalising the density reducies dispersion, thus linear regression fits well all the available data till delta -0.6 in OH, till -0.3 with central ECH. β values are also higher at negative triangularities in both ohmic and ECH cases.
Record creation date
2019-05-22