Synergistic effects of the safety factor and shear flows on development of internal transport barriers in reversed shear plasmas

A new suppression mechanism of turbulent transport, characteristic of the synergism between safety factor and shear flows, is proposed to explain the internal transport barriers (ITBs) observed in neutral-beam-heated tokamak discharges with reversed magnetic shear. It is shown that the evolution of...

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Veröffentlicht in:Physics of plasmas 2002-03, Vol.9 (3), p.748-751
Hauptverfasser: Wang, A. K., Dong, J. Q., Qu, W. X., Qiu, X. M.
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:A new suppression mechanism of turbulent transport, characteristic of the synergism between safety factor and shear flows, is proposed to explain the internal transport barriers (ITBs) observed in neutral-beam-heated tokamak discharges with reversed magnetic shear. It is shown that the evolution of turbulent transport with the strength of the suppression mechanism reproduces the basic features of the formation and development of ITBs observed in experiments. In addition, the present analyses predict the possibility of global ion and electron heat transport barriers.
ISSN:1070-664X
1089-7674
DOI:10.1063/1.1445753