Abstract
Enhanced energy confinement in discharges with impurity induced radiating power fractions, Prad/Pin, from 50% to 100% have been observed in the DIII-D tokamak with neon and argon gas puffing. These radiating mantle enhanced confinement discharges have been obtained in the DIII-D tokamak under a variety of conditions: diverted and limited configurations with both an H-mode and L-mode edge. Confinement enhancements as high as the ELM free H-mode scaling relation have been obtained with impurity gas puffing, although operation at the highest densities is transient. Similarities and differences between these DIII-D discharges and RI-mode discharges obtained in the TEXTOR tokamak are discussed.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 380-385 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Journal of Nuclear Materials |
| Volume | 266 |
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| State | Published - Mar 2 1999 |
Funding
Work supported by US Department of Energy under Contracts DE-AC03-89ER51114, DE-AC05-96OR22464, W-7405-ENG-48, and Grant DE-FG03-95ER54294. This work was also done as part of the DIII-D – TEXTOR collaboration supported by DOE and Euratom.