Journal
NUCLEAR FUSION
Volume 54, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0029-5515/54/11/114002
Keywords
power footprint width; divertor configurations; RF-heated scheme; EAST
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Funding
- National Magnetic Confinement Fusion Science Programme of China [2013GB107003, 2011GB107000, 2011GB101000, 2010GB104001, 2011GB105005, 2013GB109001, 2013GB-109005]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [10990212, 11321092, 11075181, 11105177]
- JSPS-NRF-NSFC A3 Foresight Programme in the field of Plasma Physics (NSFC) [11261140328]
- Thousand Talent Plan of China
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Dedicated experiments for the scaling of divertor power footprint width have been performed in the ITER-relevant radio-frequency (RF)-heated H-mode scheme under the lower single null, double null and upper single null divertor configurations in the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) under lithium wall coating conditioning. A strong inverse scaling of the edge localized mode (ELM)-averaged power fall-off width with the plasma current (equivalently the poloidal field) has been demonstrated for the attached type-III ELMy H-mode as lambda(q) proportional to I-p(-1.05) by various heat flux diagnostics including the divertor Langmuir probes (LPs), infra-red (IR) thermograph and reciprocating LPs on the low-field side. The IR camera and divertor LP measurements show that lambda(q,IR) approximate to lambda(q,div-LPs)/1.3 = 1.15 B-p,omp(-1.25), in good agreement with the multi-machine scaling trend during the inter-ELM phase between type-I ELMs or ELM-free enhanced D-alpha (EDA). H-mode. However, the magnitude is nearly doubled, which may be attributed to the different operation scenarios or heating schemes in EAST, i.e., dominated by electron heating. It is also shown that the type-III ELMs only broaden the power fall-off width slightly, and the ELM-averaged width is representative for the inter-ELM period. Furthermore, the inverse I-p (Bp) scaling appears to be independent of the divertor configurations in EAST. The divertor power footprint integral width, fall-off width and dissipation width derived from EAST IR camera measurements follow the relation, lambda(int) congruent to lambda(q) + 1.64S, yielding lambda(EAST)(int) = (1.39 +/- 0.03)lambda(EAST)(q) + (0.97 +/- 0.35) mm. Detailed analysis of these three characteristic widths was carried out to shed more light on their extrapolation to ITER.
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