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The Effect of Plasma Shape on H-Mode Pedestal Characteristics on DIII-D [electronic resource].

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Washington, D.C. : United States. Dept. of Energy, 1999.
Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy.
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21 pages : digital, PDF file
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General Atomic Company, United States. Department of Energy, and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information
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Summary
The characteristics of the H-mode are studied in discharges with varying triangularity and squareness. The pressure at the top of the H-mode pedestal increases strongly with triangularity primarily due to an increase in the margin by which the edge pressure gradient exceeds the ideal ballooning mode first stability limit. Two models are considered for how the edge may exceed the ballooning mode limit. In one model [1], access to the ballooning mode second stable regime allows the edge pressure gradient and associated bootstrap current to continue to increase until an edge localized, low toroidal mode number, ideal kink mode is destabilized. In the second model [2], the finite width of the H-mode transport barrier, and diamagnetic effects raise the pressure gradient limit above the ballooning mode limit. We observe a weak inverse dependence of the width of the H-mode transport barrier, Δ, on triangularity relative to the previously obtained [3] scaling Δ ∞ (β{sub P}{sup PED}){sup 1/2}. The energy loss for Type I ELMs increases with triangularity in proportion to the pedestal energy increase. The temperature profile is found to respond stiffly to changes in T{sup PED} at low temperature, while at high temperature the response is additive. The response of the density profile is also found to play a role in the response of the total stored energy to changes in the W{sup PED}.
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E 1.99:ga-a23273
ga-a23273
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Published through SciTech Connect.
12/01/1999.
"ga-a23273"
4th IAEA Technical Committee Meeting on H-Mode and Transport Barrier, Oxford (GB), 09/27/1999--09/29/1999.
R.L. Miller; J.G. Watkins; M.R. Wade; T.H. Osborne; A.W. Leonard; A.D. Turnbull; J.R. Ferron; R.J. Groebner; L.L. Lao; R. Maingi.
Funding Information
AC03-99ER54463
AC05-96OR22464
AC04-94AL85000
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