Blob velocities and sizes in the Alcator C-Mod scrape-off layer for ohmic and high confinement mode plasmas
Abstract
An improved time delay estimation method is used to calculate the velocity of cross-field blob motion in the scrape-off layer of Alcator C-Mod for an ohmic and two high confinement (H-mode) plasmas; an edge localized mode free and an enhanced D-alpha H-mode. The gas puff imaging data analysis results are interpreted in the framework of a stochastic model that describes the fluctuations as a super-position of uncorrelated blob-like structures. In all confinement modes investigated, the scrape-off layer is dominated by large amplitude, blob-like filaments moving radially outwards with velocities in the range from 400 to 1000 m/s. Blobs in high confinement mode plasmas have similar velocities and sizes as in ohmic plasma, which is consistent with the close similarity of conditionally averaged burst shapes and frequency spectra for the confinement modes investigated.
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@article{arxiv.2501.14558,
title = {Blob velocities and sizes in the Alcator C-Mod scrape-off layer for ohmic and high confinement mode plasmas},
author = {A. D. Helgeland and J. M. Losada and J. L. Terry and O. E. Garcia},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.14558},
year = {2025}
}
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9 pages, 9 figures, conference proceeding VSI: PSI-26