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== Name and affiliation of proponent == | == Name and affiliation of proponent == | ||
G. | G. Grenfell<sup>1</sup>, B. van Milligen<sup>1</sup>, U. Losada<sup>1</sup>, Wu Ting<sup>1,7</sup>, A. Chmyga<sup>2</sup>, G.N. Deshko<sup>2</sup>, L.G. Eliseev<sup>3</sup>, C. Hidalgo<sup>1</sup>, P. O. Khabanov, S.M. Khrebtov<sup>2</sup>, A.D. Komarov<sup>2</sup>, A.S. Kozachek<sup>2</sup>, L.I. Krupnik<sup>2</sup>, Bing Liu<sup>1</sup>, A.V. Melnikov<sup>3,4</sup>, J.L. de Pablos<sup>1</sup>, Monica Spolaore<sup>5</sup>, Ufimtsev<sup>6</sup>, V.N. Zenin<sup>3</sup>, A.I. Zhezhera<sup>2</sup> | ||
# Fusion National Laboratory, CIEMAT, 28040, Madrid, Spain | # Fusion National Laboratory, CIEMAT, 28040, Madrid, Spain | ||
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== Details of contact person at LNF (if applicable) == | == Details of contact person at LNF (if applicable) == | ||
[boudewijn.vanmilligen@ciemat.es Boudewijn | [mailto:boudewijn.vanmilligen@ciemat.es Boudewijn van Milligen] | ||
== Description of the activity, including motivation/objectives and experience of the proponent (typically one-two pages)== | == Description of the activity, including motivation/objectives and experience of the proponent (typically one-two pages)== | ||
Motivation. Turbulence spreading or radial transport of turbulence energy occurs because inhomogeneous turbulence generically tends to redistribute its energy from regions where dominant free energy sources are located to regions which do not access external free energy sources directly. This causes the so call spreading of turbulence from regions that are strongly driven (i.e., unstable regions) into regions which are only weakly driven <ref>P. Manz et al., Phys | Motivation. Turbulence spreading or radial transport of turbulence energy occurs because inhomogeneous turbulence generically tends to redistribute its energy from regions where dominant free energy sources are located to regions which do not access external free energy sources directly. This causes the so call spreading of turbulence from regions that are strongly driven (i.e., unstable regions) into regions which are only weakly driven <ref>P. Manz et al., [[doi:10.1063/1.4908272|Phys. Plasmas '''22''' (2015) 022308]] and references therein</ref>. | ||
Plasma edges in stellarators can be quite different than edges in tokamaks. In particular, configurations with the long connection lengths in stellarators means that cross-field transport can compete with parallel transport along open field lines. Clarifying whether the SOL width is dominated by local effects at the SOL region or/and by transport driven in the plasma edge is a relevant question. Recent experiments in the TJ-II stellarator have shown that SOL profiles are coupled with edge plasma parameters and that the strength of this coupling depends on the magnitude of the edge shearing rate and level of edge fluctuations. Consequently optimizing SOL power exhaust would require considering transport in the edge region. <ref>Wu Ting et al., Master Thesis 2016</ref> | Plasma edges in stellarators can be quite different than edges in tokamaks. In particular, configurations with the long connection lengths in stellarators means that cross-field transport can compete with parallel transport along open field lines. Clarifying whether the SOL width is dominated by local effects at the SOL region or/and by transport driven in the plasma edge is a relevant question. Recent experiments in the TJ-II stellarator have shown that SOL profiles are coupled with edge plasma parameters and that the strength of this coupling depends on the magnitude of the edge shearing rate and level of edge fluctuations. Consequently optimizing SOL power exhaust would require considering transport in the edge region. <ref>Wu Ting et al., Master Thesis 2016</ref> | ||
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* Investigation of the influence of edge ExB sheared flows and turbulence on the strength of Edge-SOL coupling in H and D plasmas. | * Investigation of the influence of edge ExB sheared flows and turbulence on the strength of Edge-SOL coupling in H and D plasmas. | ||
* Propagation of edge / core perturbations (i.e. pellets / ECRH modulation / biasing) on the SOL in plasma regimes with different edge sheared flows. | * Propagation of edge / core perturbations (i.e. pellets / ECRH modulation / biasing) on the SOL in plasma regimes with different edge sheared flows. | ||
* Analysis of these edge/core perturbations using the Transfer Entropy <ref>B. Ph. van Milligen et al., | * Analysis of these edge/core perturbations using the Transfer Entropy <ref>B. Ph. van Milligen et al., [[doi:10.1088/0029-5515/54/2/023011|Nucl. Fusion '''54''' (2014), 023011]] and [[doi:10.1063/1.4958806|Phys. Plasmas '''23''', 072305 (2016)]]</ref>, to quantify the flow of information from the edge to the SOL | ||
* Characterization of core-edge-SOL turbulence spreading. | * Characterization of core-edge-SOL turbulence spreading. | ||
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[[Category:TJ-II internal documents]] | [[Category:TJ-II internal documents]] | ||
[[Category:TJ-II experimental proposals]] | [[Category:TJ-II experimental proposals 2017]] | ||