Identification of the ubiquitous Coriolis momentum pinch in JET tokamak plasmas: Letter

H. Weisen; Y. Camenen; A. Salmi; T.W. Versloot; P.C. de Vries; M. Maslov; Tuomas Tala; M. Beurskens; C. Giroud; JET-EFDA contributors

doi:10.1088/0029-5515/52/4/042001

Identification of the ubiquitous Coriolis momentum pinch in JET tokamak plasmas: Letter

H. Weisen
, Y. Camenen
, A. Salmi
, T.W. Versloot
, P.C. de Vries
, M. Maslov
, Tuomas Tala
, M. Beurskens
, C. Giroud
, JET-EFDA contributors

Culham Science Centre
Aix-Marseille Université
Aalto University
Dutch Research Council
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

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A broad survey of the experimental database of neutral beam heated plasmas in the JET tokamak has established the theoretically expected ubiquity, in rotating plasmas, of a convective transport mechanism which has its origin in the vertical particle drift resulting from the Coriolis force. This inward convection, or pinch, leads to inward transport of toroidal angular momentum and is characterized by pinch numbers RV/χ_φ, which rise from near unity at r/a ≈ 0.25 to around 5 at r/a ≈ 0.85. Linear gyrokinetic calculations of the Coriolis pinch number and the Prandtl number χ_φ/χ_i are in good agreement with the experimental observations, with similar dependences on plasma parameters. The data, however, do not rule out contributions from different processes, such as residual stresses.

Original language	English
Article number	042001
Number of pages	6
Journal	Nuclear Fusion
Volume	52
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/0029-5515/52/4/042001
Publication status	Published - 2012
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

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