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Article Dans Une Revue Journal of Nuclear Materials Année : 2013

Interaction of plasma transport and turbulence on particle fuelling

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We report the results of an experimental investigation of the impact of Supersonic Molecular Beam Injection in the Tore Supra tokamak. Several diagnostics were synchronised with the injection to extract a global picture of the physics at play from the time scale of turbulence (similar to 10 mu s) to the full-recovery time (similar to 1 s). As previously reported, a strong impact of the injection on density and temperature profiles is observed. Both fields exhibit a complex dynamic response involving different phases and time scales. In particular, we show that the effective particle fuelling efficiency is determined by a period of degraded confinement that follows the injection, during which the edge density collapses, in some cases, lower than the initial one. This phase is characterised by a dramatic change in the turbulent transport, with a drop of the frequency spectrum and the observation of large coherent structures as opposed to small intermittent fluctuations before the injection.

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hal-01284949 , version 1 (08-03-2016)

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Patrick Tamain, Gérard Bonhomme, Frédéric Brochard, Frédéric Clairet, C. Gil, et al.. Interaction of plasma transport and turbulence on particle fuelling. Journal of Nuclear Materials, 2013, 438 (S), pp.S148-S154. ⟨10.1016/j.jnucmat.2013.01.023⟩. ⟨hal-01284949⟩
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