Measurement of local ion diffusion coefficients in the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor

Abstract

The perturbations in ion temperature, density and parallel velocity resulting from sawtooth disruptions in TFTR are measured with a novel diagnostic. The local ion thermal diffusivity, particle diffusivity and parallel momentum diffusivity are determined in a high power discharge at r/a = 0.64 by fitting the observed pulses to a simple model of the radial diffusive propagation of heat, particles and momentum caused by the crash. The incremental ion thermal diffusivity, χiinc, is found to be similar in amplitude to the ion and electron thermal diffusivities obtained from a steady state 1-D power balance analysis, and the particle and parallel momentum diffusivities are found to be an order of magnitude smaller than χiinc.