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Study of core plasma rotation characteristics of RF-heated H-mode discharges on experimental advanced superconducting tokamak

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PHYSICS OF PLASMAS
Volume 27, Issue 2, Pages -

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AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/1.5127970

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  1. National Key Research and Development Program of China [2017YFE0301300, 2017YFE0300503]
  2. Key Program of Research and Development of Hefei Science Center, CAS [2017HSC-KPRD002]
  3. Anhui Provincial Natural Science Foundation [1908085J01]
  4. National Natural Science Foundation of China [11675213]
  5. Instrument Developing Project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences [YJKYYQ20180013]

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RF-heated H-mode plasmas are readily achieved with lower hybrid current drive and ICRF heating on experimental advanced superconducting tokamak (EAST). Characteristics of H-mode plasma rotation are studied, including the behaviors for non-stationary and stationary H-mode discharges. Experimental results indicate that substantial co-current core rotation increment is observed at L-H transition. For non-stationary discharges with multiple L-H transitions, central plasma rotation varies as the plasma enters and exits the H-mode phase. Rotation increase over L-H transition is linearly correlated with plasma stored energy for both edge localized mode (ELM)-free phases and phases with type-III ELMs. For stationary H-mode discharges with type-III ELMs, core plasma rotation profile is elevated and remains stable during the H-mode phase, although the occurrence of ELMs tends to slow down the core rotation, especially for type-I ELMs where the entire core profiles are affected. Evolution of plasma rotation is fitted with a source-free transport equation and it is found that the momentum transport is dominated by diffusion and explains the flat profile in the core. Based on the Rice scaling and for the same stored energy increase, smaller increase in the core rotation is observed for H-mode discharges with type-III ELMs than for ELM-free discharges. A linear fit indicates that the slope is 75% larger for the ELM-free discharges data. Published under license by AIP Publishing.

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