Author: Hugo ArnichandPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Plasma Turbulence is responsible of the anomalous transport which degrades the performances of the fusion devices. Turbulence is trigger by different instabilities such as the Ion Temperature Gradient Modes (ITG) and the Trapped Electron Modes (TEM). As ITG and TEM are driven by different gradients, they can either both be stable, both coexist or give way to a single dominant mode. The transport and the toroidal velocity induced by ITG and TEM can be noticeably different thus it is important to be able to discriminate experimentally the dominant modes. Different experimental approaches exist to distinguish ITG from TEM but they are complex and not systematically feasible. This thesis shows that frequency fluctuation spectra can provide an additional experimental indication of the dominant mode.These spectra can show different components:-Broadband spectra (delta-f around hundreds of kHz) which are generally attributed to turbulence.-Coherent modes (delta-f around 1 kHz) which oscillate at a very well-defined frequency.-Quasi-Coherent (QC) modes (delta-f around tens of kHz) which oscillate at a rather well defined frequency but are reminiscent of the broadband fluctuations.Reflectometry measurements and gyrokinetic simulations combined with a synthetic reflectometer diagnostics show that TEM can induce QC modes in the core region of Ohmic plasmas. The QC signature of TEM is due to their narrow frequency spectrum. The QC modes observed in the plasma core were renamed QC-TEM due to their TEM origins. Then, the first applications of these results are made in Ohmic and ECRH plasmas to investigate the role of TEM, and transitions are reported between QC-TEM and MHD modes.
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