The flow and fluctuation measurements in a simple magnetized current less toroidal plasma have been conducted. The measured plasma parameter profiles are observed to be accompanied by large fluctuations. The existence of large fluctuations and filling of plasma in the entire radial domain are observed to be closely related to each other. The E×B drift velocities calculated from the gradient of measured mean plasma potential profile have shown significant deviation from the net flow velocity measurements. Interestingly, it is observed that the measured fluctuation driven flow velocity, which is opposite in direction to the mean field driven flow, partially accounts for the observed difference between the net flow and the mean electric field driven flow.
In a simple toroidal plasma, self consistent poloidal flow generation at different toroidal fields is observed. On changing the magnitude of toroidal field, transition occurs in the nature of fluctuation from highly coherent modes at low magnetic field to a turbulent broadband spectrum at high field accompanied by significant improvement in the confinement. Interestingly, though the coherence is reduced with the increasing field, the fluctuation driven poloidal flux remains comparable. The observed increase in the densities on high field side with the increase in magnetic field is simultaneously accompanied by the enhanced net poloidal flow. The present work demonstrates that in a toroidal compressible plasma, an intimate relationship exists between the fluctuations, self consistently generated flows and enhanced confinement. V C 2012 American Institute of Physics.
Generation of fluctuations and poloidal flow is investigated in a simple toroidal plasma, at a given magnetic field strength for varying ion masses. Under similar discharge conditions, the fluctuation induced poloidal flux is found to decrease with increasing ion mass. Consequently, the absolute net poloidal flow velocity is found to scale down systematically with increase in the ion mass. The net poloidal flow in units of ion acoustic velocity is, however, comparable for all masses on the low field side and shows minor variations on the high field side. The frequency of the first harmonic in the density and potential power spectra is found to decrease with decreasing absolute net flow. A transition occurs in the fluctuation behavior from highly coherent state to a turbulent state with increase in the ion mass, from argon to xenon. V C 2012 American Institute of Physics. [http://dx.
In a simple magnetized toroidal plasma, fluctuation induced poloidal flux is found to be significant in magnitude. The probability distribution function of the fluctuation induced poloidal flux is observed to be strongly non-Gaussian in nature; however, in some cases, the distribution shows good agreement with the analytical form [Carreras et al., Phys. Plasmas 3, 2664(1996], assuming a coupling between the near Gaussian density and poloidal velocity fluctuations. The observed non-Gaussian nature of the fluctuation induced poloidal flux and other plasma parameters such as density and fluctuating poloidal velocity in this device is due to intermittent and bursty nature of poloidal transport. In the simple magnetized torus used here, such an intermittent fluctuation induced poloidal flux is found to play a crucial role in generating the poloidal flow. V C 2013 AIP Publishing LLC. [http://dx.
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