Observation of spontaneous toroidal rotation inversion in ohmically heated tokamak plasmas

A Bortolon, BP Duval, A Pochelon, A Scarabosio - Physical Review Letters, 2006 - APS
A Bortolon, BP Duval, A Pochelon, A Scarabosio
Physical Review Letters, 2006APS
Bulk plasma toroidal rotation is observed to invert spontaneously from counter to cocurrent
direction in TCV (Tokamak à Configuration Variable) Ohmically heated discharges, in low
confinement mode, without momentum input. The inversion occurs in high current
discharges, when the plasma electron density exceeds a well-defined threshold. The
transition between the two rotational regimes has been studied by means of density ramps.
The results provide evidence of a change of the balance of nondiffusive momentum fluxes in …
Bulk plasma toroidal rotation is observed to invert spontaneously from counter to cocurrent direction in TCV (Tokamak à Configuration Variable) Ohmically heated discharges, in low confinement mode, without momentum input. The inversion occurs in high current discharges, when the plasma electron density exceeds a well-defined threshold. The transition between the two rotational regimes has been studied by means of density ramps. The results provide evidence of a change of the balance of nondiffusive momentum fluxes in the core of a plasma without an external drive.
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