Dependence of the impurity transport on the dominant turbulent regime in ELM-y H-mode discharges on the DIII-D tokamak

Laser blow-off injections of aluminum and tungsten have been performed on the DIII-D tokamak to investigate the variation of impurity transport in a set of dedicated ion and electron heating scans with a fixed value of the external torque. The particle transport is quantified via the Bayesian infere...

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Published in:Physics of plasmas 2020-08, Vol.27 (8)
Main Authors: Odstrčil, T., Howard, N. T., Sciortino, F., Chrystal, C., Holland, C., Hollmann, E., McKee, G., Thome, K. E., Wilks, T. M.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aluminum
Bayesian analysis
Charge exchange
Confectionery
Density
Diffusion
Discharge
Electrons
Heat exchange
Heat flux
Heating
Impurities
Ion temperature
Modelling
Plasma physics
Soft x rays
Spectrum analysis
Statistical inference
Temperature gradients
Tokamak devices
Transport properties
Tungsten
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Summary:Laser blow-off injections of aluminum and tungsten have been performed on the DIII-D tokamak to investigate the variation of impurity transport in a set of dedicated ion and electron heating scans with a fixed value of the external torque. The particle transport is quantified via the Bayesian inference method, which, constrained by a combination of a charge exchange recombination spectroscopy, soft x-ray measurements, and vacuum ultraviolet spectroscopy provides a detailed uncertainty quantification of transport coefficients. Contrasting discharge phases with a dominant electron and ion heating reveal a threefold drop in the impurity confinement time and order of magnitude increase in midradius impurity diffusion, when additional electron heating is applied. Furthermore, the calculated stationary aluminum density profiles reverse from peaked in electron heated to hollow in the ion heated case, following a similar trend to electron and carbon density. Comparable values of a core diffusion have been observed for W and Al ions, while differences in the propagation dynamics of these impurities are attributed to pedestal and edge transport. Modeling of the core transport with non-linear gyrokinetics code CGYRO [J. Candy and E. Belly, J. Comput. Phys. 324, 73 (2016)], significantly underpredicts the magnitude of the variation in Al transport. Diffusion increases three-times steeper with additional electron heat flux, and 10-times lower diffusion is observed in ion heated case than predicted by the modeling. The CGYRO model quantitatively matches the increase in the Al diffusion when approaching the linear threshold for the transition from the ion temperature gradient to trapped electron mode.
ISSN:1070-664X
1089-7674
DOI:10.1063/5.0010725