Published September 1992 | Version v1
Journal article

Concept of marginal stability and recent experimental results from the TFTR tokamak

  • 1. Chalmers Univ. of Technology, Goeteborg (Sweden). Inst. for Electromagnetic Field Theory and Plasma Physics

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In recent experiments on TFTR the concept of marginal stability for ion temperature gradient driven modes was tested by pellet fuelling which strongly increased ηi=Ln/LTi. Such a shot was studied with a fluid transport model and it was found that, as in the experiment, the maximum χi does not increase. This is due to stabilizing effects of compressibility and non-adiabaticity. (author). Letter-to-the-editor. 14 refs, 3 figs

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Nuclear Fusion
Journal Volume
32
Journal Issue
9
Series
Nucl. Fusion.
Journal Page Range
1653-1656
ISSN
0029-5515
CODEN
NUFUA