Published August 1993 | Version v1
Report

Dependence of transport on rotational transform in the stellarator W7-AS

  • 1. Institut fuer Plasmaforschung, Universitaet Stuttgart (Germany)
  • 2. Max-Planck-Institut fuer Plasmaphysik, IPP-EURATOM Association, Garching (Germany)

Description

The global energy confinement time τE in Wendelstein 7-AS scales with electron density, heating power, magnetic field and minor radius. The scaling deviates from that found in tokamaks, where a scaling of τE with plasma current is observed. If one expresses the current scaling in terms of toroidal magnetic field, the tokamak and stellarator scaling laws become similar. In order to explore the intrinsic mechanism, giving rise to current scaling, the ι(=1/q) scaling of τE is studied in more detail in the currentless stellarator W7-AS. (orig.)

Part of:
W7-AS/W7-X contributions to the 20th European conference on controlled fusion and plasma heating

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Publishing Information

Imprint Title
W7-AS/W7-X contributions to the 20th European conference on controlled fusion and plasma heating
Imprint Pagination
109 p.
Journal Page Range
[4 p.].
Report number
IPP--III/191

Conference

Title
20. EPS conference on controlled fusion and plasma physics.
Dates
26-30 Jul 1993.
Place
Lisbon (Portugal).

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