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Stoneking, M.R.; Chapman, J.T.; Prager, S.C.; Sarff, J.S.
Wisconsin Univ., Madison, WI (United States). Dept. of Physics. Funding organisation: USDOE Office of Energy Research, Washington, DC (United States)1997
Wisconsin Univ., Madison, WI (United States). Dept. of Physics. Funding organisation: USDOE Office of Energy Research, Washington, DC (United States)1997
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[en] The scaling of the magnetic and velocity fluctuations with Lundquist number (S) is examined experimentally over a range of values from 7 x 104 to 106 in a reversed field pinch (RFP) plasma. Magnetic fluctuations do not scale uniquely with the Lundquist number. At high (relative) density, fluctuations scale as b∝S-0.18, and fluctuations are almost independent of S at low relative density, b∝S-0.07; however both exponents fall in the range of theoretical and numerical predictions. At high relative density, the scaling of the energy confinement time follows expectations for transport in a stochastic magnetic field. A confinement scaling law (nτE∝β4/5T-7/10A-3/5Iφ2) is derived assuming the persistent dominance of stochastic magnetic diffusion in the RFP and on the measured scaling of magnetic fluctuations. The peak velocity fluctuations during a sawtooth cycle scale marginally stronger than magnetic fluctuations but weaker than a simple Ohm's law prediction. The sawtooth period is determined by a resistive-Alfvenic hybrid time (Tsaw∝√(τRτAlf)) rather than a purely resistive time
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Sep 1997; 52 p; CONTRACT FG02-96ER54345; Also available from OSTI as DE98001047; NTIS; US Govt. Printing Office Dep
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