| Issue |
EPJ Web Conf.
Volume 147, 2017
19th Joint Workshop on Electron Cyclotron Emission and Electron Cyclotron Resonance Heating
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| Article Number | 03001 | |
| Number of page(s) | 8 | |
| Section | Experimental Session | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201714703001 | |
| Published online | 24 July 2017 | |
https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201714703001
Experimental Measurement of ECH Deposition Broadening: Beyond Anomalous Transport
1 Institute For Fusion Studies, University of Texas at Austin
2 General Atomics, San Diego, CA
3 PSFC - MIT
4 CEA - Cadarache
5 UCLA
a e-mail: brookmanmw@fusion.gat.com
Published online: 24 July 2017
This work provides a first experimental measurement of broadened ECH deposition on the DIIID tokamak. As seen in theory[1] and simulation[2], refraction by edge density fluctuations shifts the path of RF waves, altering ECH and ECCD deposition. This paper reports on an initial experimental confirmation of broadened ECH deposition on DIII-D tokamak. Te measurements from a 48 channel 2nd Harmonic ECE Radiometer digitized at 500 kHz are used with a set of broadened trial ECH deposition functions to calculate time-dependent, modulation-induced heat fluxes. The fitting of convective and diffusive transport to these fluxes allows different ECH deposition profiles to be compared. The best-fit ECH deposition produces reasonable transport coefficients which compare favorably with simulation. This method is applied to a set of L- and H- mode DIII-D discharges. Accounting for diffusive, convective, and coupled transport, the ECH deposition profile is found to be 2 to 3 times wider than predicted by TORAY-GA ray tracing.
© The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2017
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