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Turbulence and transport reduction with innovative plasma shapes in TCV - correlation ECE measurements and gyrokinetic simulations

Antoine Pochelon
2010
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Turbulence and transport reduction with innovative plasma shapes in TCV -- correlation ECE measurement and gyrokinetic simulations Due to turbulence, core energy transport in tokamaks generally exceeds collisional transport by at least an order of magnitude. It is therefore crucial to understand the instabilities driving the turbulent state and to find ways to control them. Shaping the plasma is one of these fundamental tools. In low collisionality plasmas, such as in a reactor, changing triangularity from positive (delta=+0.4) to negative triangularity (delta=-0.4) is shown on TCV to reduce the energy transport by a factor two. This opens the possibility of having H-mode-like confinement time within an L-mode edge, or reduced ELMs. An optimum triangularity can be sought between steep edge barriers (delta>0), plagued by large ELMs, and improved core confinement (delta

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Antoine Pochelon
2010
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Abstract

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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/5375390d-79ba-4fe5-9702-c1d0d482b517

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