Advances in understanding quiescent H-mode plasmas in DIII-D

K. H. Burrell, W. P. West, E. J. Doyle, M. E. Austin, T. A. Casper, P. Gohil, C. M. Greenfield, R. J. Groebner, A. W. Hyatt, R. J. Jayakumar, D. H. Kaplan, L. L. Lao, A. W. Leonard, M. A. Makowski, G. R. McKee, T. H. Osborne, P. B. Snyder, W. M. Solomon, D. M. Thomas, T. L. RhodesE. J. Strait, M. R. Wade, G. Wang, L. Zeng

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Abstract

Advances pertaining to the study of quiescent H-mode plasmas in DIII-D a are discussed. It is stated that in many ways, quiescent H-mode (QH-mode) plasmas are the ideal H-mode plasma. Detailed ELITE calculations for the high triangularity plasmas have demonstrated that the plasma operating point is marginally stable to peeling-ballooning modes. It is observed that the EHO produces electron, main ions, and impurity particle transport at the plasma edge which is more rapid than that produced by ELMs under similar conditions.

Original languageEnglish
Article number056121
Pages (from-to)1-10
Number of pages10
JournalPhysics of Plasmas
Volume12
Issue number5
DOIs
StatePublished - May 2005

Funding

This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Energy under Grant Nos. DE-FC02-04ER54698, DE-FG03-01ER54615, DE-FG03-97ER54415, W-7405-ENG-48, DE-FG03-96ER54373, DE-AC02-76CH03073, and DE-AC05-00OR22725. The authors would like to thank our colleagues investigating resistive wall modes for serendipitously producing the matched pair of discharges used in Figs. .

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