Heat Transport Experiments on the HSX Stellarator

Download or read book Heat Transport Experiments on the HSX Stellarator written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been observed in tokamaks that temperature profiles are resilient to changes in heating, and that this effect has not been observed in conventional stellarators. Electron temperature profile resiliency is attributed to anomalous transport driven by turbulent micro-instabilities, and the resulting stiffness in the electron heat flux is measured using a combination of steady-state and perturbative experiments. In this work, stiffness measurements are presented in the quasihelically symmetric configuration of the Helically Symmetric eXperiment (HSX), in which the neoclassical transport is comparable to a tokamak and turbulent transport dominates throughout the plasma. A second gyrotron and transmission line have been installed and tested to facilitate modulated heating experiments on HSX, and a multi-pass absorption model accurately predicts the total absorption and spatial extent of the electron cyclotron resonance heating during a modulation experiment. The electron cyclotron emission measured by an absolutely calibrated 16-channel radiometer is used to measure the local electron temperature and its response to the modulated heating. The amplitude and phase of the heat wave through the foot of the steep electron temperature gradient region of the plasma, 0.2