Investigation of drift velocity effects on the EDGE and SOL transport

To understand the mechanisms behind poloidal asymmetries of the transport in the edge and SOL plasma, it is important to take into account drift velocity in the transport model. We investigate the effects of an imposed radial electric field on the plasma equilibrium in the transport code SOLEDGE2D. In the edge, we show an important modification of the flow pattern due to poloidal E × B drift velocity. The drift velocity generates asymmetry of the density through the Pfirsch–Schluter flows which creates an important parallel rotation through the viscous balance. In comparison to heat load imbalance studies in the SOL of divertor tokamak, a strong link between the amplitude of the radial electric field and the heat load imbalance in the SOL of limiter tokamak has been highlighted using different amplitude of the imposed radial electric field.

R. Leybros, Hugo Bufferand, Guido Ciraolo, Nicolas Fedorczak, Philippe Ghendrih, et al.. Investigation of drift velocity effects on the EDGE and SOL transport. Journal of Nuclear Materials, 2015, 463, pp.489-492. ⟨10.1016/j.jnucmat.2014.10.079⟩. ⟨hal-01225211⟩

Journal: Journal of Nuclear Materials

Date de publication: 01-01-2015

Auteurs:
  • R. Leybros
  • Hugo Bufferand
  • Guido Ciraolo
  • Nicolas Fedorczak
  • Philippe Ghendrih
  • Pascale Hennequin
  • Yannick Marandet
  • Eric Serre
  • Frédéric Schwander
  • Patrick Tamain

Digital object identifier (doi): http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jnucmat.2014.10.079

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