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The turbulent transport of main ion and trace impurities in a tokamak device in the presence of steep electron density gradients has been studied. The parameters are chosen for trapped electron (TE) mode turbulence, driven primarily by…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Andreas Skyman , Hans Nordman , P. I. Strand

Trapped electron mode turbulence is studied by gyrokinetic simulations with the GYRO code and an analytical model including the effect of a poloidally varying electrostatic potential. Its impact on radial transport of high-Z trace…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-04-04 A. Mollén , I. Pusztai , T. Fülöp , S. Moradi

In the present study, turbulent impurity transport in Deuterium tokamak plasmas, driven by Ion Temperature Gradient (ITG) and Trapped Electron (TE) modes, has been investigated using fluid and gyrokinetic models. The impurity diffusivity…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-12-21 Andreas Skyman , Hans Nordman , Pär Strand , Frank Jenko , Florian Merz

Particle transport due to Ion Temperature Gradient/Trapped Electron (ITG/TE) mode turbulence is investigated using the gyrokinetic code GENE. Both a reduced quasilinear (QL) treatment and nonlinear (NL) simulations are performed for typical…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Andreas Skyman , Hans Nordman , Daniel Tegnered

Gyrokinetic simulations of ion temperature gradient mode and trapped electron mode driven impurity transport in a realistic tokamak geometry are presented and compared with results using simplified geometries. The gyrokinetic results,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2013-12-20 Andreas Skyman , Luis Fazendeiro , Daniel Tegnered , Hans Nordman , Johan Anderson , Pär Strand

A study of turbulent impurity transport by means of quasilinear and nonlinear gyrokinetic simulations is presented for Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X). The calculations have been carried out with the recently developed gyrokinetic code stella.…

Hydrogenic ion mass effects, namely the isotopic effects on impurity transport driven by ion temperature gradient (ITG) turbulence are investigated using gyrokinetic theory. For non-trace impurities, changing from hydrogen (H) to deuterium…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 Weixin Guo , Lu Wang , Ge Zhuang

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.…

By presenting linear and nonlinear gyrokinetic studies, based on a balanced neutral beam injection deuterium discharge from the DIII-D tokamak, we demonstrate that impurities alter the scaling of the transport on the charge and mass of the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 I. Pusztai , A. Mollen , T. Fulop , J. Candy

A subgrid electron-temperature-gradient (ETG) model is demonstrated here which averages local electron-scale turbulence from the GENE code over intermediate scales in space and time to include in global ion-temperature-gradient (ITG) GEM…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2025-07-24 Stefan Tirkas , Yang Chen , Scott Parker

Neoclassical and turbulent heavy impurity transport in tokamak core plasmas are determined by main ion temperature, density and toroidal rotation profiles. Thus, in order to understand and prevent experimental behaviour of W accumulation,…

Numerical simulations of the interchange plasma turbulence in the presence of medium-Z impurities (N2 , Ne, Ar) seeding have been performed using BOUT++. These simulation results are used to study the impurity transport mechanism in the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-06-14 Shrish Raj , Nirmal Bisai , Vijay Shankar , Abhijit Sen

This study investigates the effect of the ion-to-electron temperature ratio ($T_i/T_e$) on microturbulence driven transport in Quiescent H-mode (QH-mode) plasmas in the DIII-D tokamak. Utilizing the Gyrokinetic Toroidal Code (GTC) and the…

Turbulent transport driven by trapped electron modes (TEMs) is believed to drive significant heat and particle transport in quasihelically symmetric stellarators. Two three-dimensionally-shaped magnetic configurations with suppressed…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-12-30 J. M. Duff , B. J. Faber , C. C. Hegna , M. J. Pueschel , P. W. Terry

A large diffusive turbulent contribution to the radial impurity transport in Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) plasmas has been experimentally inferred during the first campaigns and numerically confirmed by means of gyrokinetic simulations with the…

Linear instability characterization of seven JET discharges just prior to the L-H transition is performed at $\rho_{\text{tor}} \in [0.85,0.9,0.95]$ with the gyrokinetic GENE code. The discharges cover both the low- and high-density…

We investigate the effect of varying the ion temperature gradient (ITG) and toroidal equilibrium scale sheared flow on ion-scale turbulence in the outer core of MAST by means of local gyrokinetic simulations. We show that nonlinear…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2017-10-11 F. van Wyk , E. G. Highcock , A. R. Field , C. M. Roach , A. A. Schekochihin , F. I. Parra , W. Dorland

The drift wave in the presence of impurity ions was investigated numerically in reversed field pinch (RFP) plasmas, using the gyrokinetic integral eigenmode equation. It was found that in RFP plasmas with hollow density profiles, an…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-04-19 Jingchun Li , Songfen Liu , Yilong Zhang , Jiaqi Dong , Wei Kong

Turbulence characteristics of electron cyclotron (EC) and ohmic heated (OH) discharges has been analyzed by electrostatic gyrokinetic simulations with GYRO [J. Candy, R.E. Waltz, Journal of Computational Physics 186, 545-581 (2003)] aiming…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2011-04-08 Istvan Pusztai , Sara Moradi , Tunde Fulop , Natalia Timchenko

An accurate description of turbulence up to the transport time scale is essential for predicting core plasma profiles and enabling reliable calculations for designing advanced scenarios and future devices. Here, we exploit the gap…

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