X Garbet et al 2004 Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 46 B557 doi:10.1088/0741-3335/46/12B/045
X Garbet1, P Mantica2, C Angioni3, E Asp1, Y Baranov4, C Bourdelle1, R Budny5, F Crisanti6, G Cordey4, L Garzotti7, N Kirneva8, D Hogeweij9, T Hoang1, F Imbeaux1, E Joffrin1, X Litaudon1, A Manini3, D C McDonald4, H Nordman10, V Parail4, A Peeters3, F Ryter3, C Sozzi2, M Valovic4, T Tala11, A Thyagaraja4, I Voitsekhovitch4, J Weiland10, H Weisen12, A Zabolotsky12 and the JET EFDA Contributors
Show affiliationsThis paper is an overview of recent results relating to turbulent particle and heat transport, and to the triggering of internal transport barriers (ITBs). The dependence of the turbulent particle pinch velocity on plasma parameters has been clarified and compared with experiment. Magnetic shear and collisionality are found to play a central role. Analysis of heat transport has made progress along two directions: dimensionless scaling laws, which are found to agree with the prediction for electrostatic turbulence, and analysis of modulation experiments, which provide a stringent test of transport models. Finally the formation of ITBs has been addressed by analysing electron transport barriers. It is confirmed that negative magnetic shear, combined with the Shafranov shift, is a robust stabilizing mechanism. However, some well established features of internal barriers are not explained by theory.
Issue 12B (December 2004)
Received 2 July 2004
Published 17 November 2004
X Garbet et al 2004 Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 46 B557
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