Test particle analysis in L and H mode simulations在和模式模拟中测试颗粒分析.pdfVIP

PHYSICS OF PLASMAS 17, 052304 2010 Test particle analysis in L- and H-mode simulations G. Sánchez Burillo,1 B. Ph. van Milligen,1 and A. Thyagaraja2 1 Asociación EURATOM-CIEMAT para Fusión, Laboratorio Nacional de Fusión, Avda. Complutense 22, 28040 Madrid, Spain 2 EURATOM-CCFE Fusion Association, Culham Science Centre, Abingdon OX14 3DB, United Kingdom Received 14 January 2010; accepted 23 March 2010; published online 7 May 2010 In this work, the radial transport of tracers in an H-mode run in the CUTIE code A. Thyagaraja et al., Phys. Plasmas 12, 090907 2005 is analyzed globally. Several techniques are applied to the study of the trajectories performed by the tracers, measuring the degree of self-similarity in the motion and searching for long range spatial and temporal correlations. The results are compared to those of an L-mode run G. Sánchez Burillo et al., Phys. Plasmas 16, 042319 2009 in order to highlight the changes between L and H. The analysis of self-similarity parameters of the motion reveals that changes, if any, are slight, although the reliability of the results is limited. Nevertheless, the study of the mean step size indicates that transport is more local or rather less global and the anomalous diffusion contribution is less dominant. Namely, the variance of the radial distribution of tracers is smaller in H-mode and the strong asymmetry in the positive/negative steps performed by the tracers vanishes. © 2010 American Institute of Physics. doi: 10.1063/1.3392290 I. INTRODUCTION