Multifractal analysis of plasma turbulence in biasing experiments on Castor tokamak

Abstract

Experiments as well as some stochastic models have shown that behaviour of the transport in the edge plasma in fusion devices should be considered as a multi-scale phenomenon. The multifractal statistics describes processes as a multiplicative cascade with a complex self-similarity. The multifractal analysis, which enables to clearly demonstrate the turbulent properties of plasma, was applied to fluctuating signals in the biasing experiments. The influence of the biasing parameters is shown. A comparison with other types of the analysis is illustrated, too.