J.H.F. Severo et al 2009 Nucl. Fusion 49 115026 doi:10.1088/0029-5515/49/11/115026
Temporal behaviour of toroidal rotation velocity in the TCABR tokamak
J.H.F. Severo1, I.C. Nascimento1, Yu.K. Kuznetsov1, R.M.O. Galvão1,2, Z.O. Guimarães-Filho1, F.O. Borges1, O.C. Usuriaga1, J.I. Elizondo1, W.P. de Sá1, E.K. Sanada1 and M. Tendler3
Show affiliationsA new method for determining the temporal evolution of plasma rotation is reported in this work. The method is based upon the detection of two different portions of the spectral profile of a plasma impurity line, using a monochromator with two photomultipliers installed at the exit slits. The plasma rotation velocity is determined by the ratio of the two detected signals. The measured toroidal rotation velocities of C III (4647.4 Å) and C VI (5290.6 Å), at different radial positions in TCABR discharges, show good agreement, within experimental uncertainty, with previous results (Severo et al 2003 Nucl. Fusion 43 1047). In particular, they confirm that the plasma core rotates in the direction opposite to the plasma current, while near the plasma edge (r/a > 0.9) the rotation is in the same direction. This technique was also used to investigate the dependence of toroidal rotation on the poloidal position of gas puffing. The results show that there is no dependence for the plasma core, while for plasma edge (r/a > 0.9) some dependence is observed.
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52.30.-q Plasma dynamics and flow
52.55.Fa Tokamaks, spherical tokamaks
52.25.Vy Impurities in plasmas
52.40.Hf Plasma-material interactions; boundary layer effects
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Issue 11 (November 2009)
Received 27 March 2009, accepted for publication 16 September 2009
Published 21 October 2009
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Temporal behaviour of toroidal rotation velocity in the TCABR tokamak
J.H.F. Severo et al 2009 Nucl. Fusion 49 115026
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