Impurity transport driven by ion temperature gradient turbulence in tokamak plasmas
Journal article, 2010

Impurity transport driven by electrostatic turbulence is analyzed in weakly collisional tokamak plasmas using a semianalytical model based on a boundary layer solution of the gyrokinetic equation. Analytical expressions for the perturbed density responses are derived and used to determine the stability boundaries and the quasilinear particle fluxes. For moderate impurity charge number Z, the stability boundaries are very weakly affected by the increasing impurity charge for constant effective charge, while for lower impurity charge the influence of impurities is larger, if the amount of impurities is not too small. Scalings of the mode frequencies and quasilinear fluxes with charge number, effective charge, impurity density scale length, and collisionality are determined and compared to quasilinear gyrokinetic simulations with GYRO resulting in very good agreement. Collisions do not affect the mode frequencies, growth rates, and impurity fluxes significantly. The eigenfrequencies and growth rates depend only weakly on Z and Zeff but they are sensitive to the impurity density gradient scale length. An analytical approximate expression of the zero-flux impurity density gradient is derived and used to discuss its parametric dependencies.

Author

Tünde Fülöp

Chalmers, Applied Physics, Nuclear Engineering

Stefanie Braun

Max Planck Society

Istvan Pusztai

Chalmers, Applied Physics, Nuclear Engineering

Physics of Plasmas

1070-664X (ISSN) 1089-7674 (eISSN)

Vol. 17 6 062501- 062501

Subject Categories

Fusion, Plasma and Space Physics

DOI

10.1063/1.3430639

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