Dependence of the L- to H-mode power threshold on toroidal rotation and the link to edge turbulence dynamics

Nuclear Fusion

Volumn 49, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  McKee, G R ^a   Gohil, P ^b   Schlossberg, D J ^a   Boedo, J A ^c   Burrell, K H ^b   Degrassie, J S ^b   Groebner, R J ^b   Moyer, R A ^c   Petty, C C ^b   Rhodes, T L ^d   Schmitz, L ^d   Shafer, M W ^a   Solomon, W M ^e   Umansky, M ^f   Wang, G ^d   White, A E ^g   Xu, X ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b GENERAL ATOMICS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e PRINCETON PLASMA PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^f LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^g OAK RIDGE INSTITUTE FOR SCIENCE AND EDUCATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM EMISSION SPECTROSCOPIES; BEAM INJECTION; COUNTER-INJECTION; EDGE TURBULENCE; GEODESIC ACOUSTIC MODES; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; HIGH-SENSITIVITY; INJECTED POWER; L-H POWER THRESHOLD; L-H TRANSITION; L-MODE PLASMAS; LOW FREQUENCY; LOWER FREQUENCIES; MODAL STRUCTURES; NEUTRAL BEAMS; POLOIDAL FLOW; POWER THRESHOLDS; ROTATING PLASMAS; TOROIDAL ROTATION; TURBULENCE DECORRELATION; TURBULENCE FLOW; TURBULENCE VELOCITY; X-POINT; ZONAL FLOWS;

ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; IONS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PLASMA CONFINEMENT; PLASMA FLOW; POWER SPECTRUM; TOKAMAK DEVICES; TURBULENCE;

ROTATION;

EID: 70349085266     PISSN: 00295515     EISSN: 17414326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0029-5515/49/11/115016     Document Type: Article

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