Impurity enrichment and radiative enhancement using induced SOL ̄ow in DIII-D

Experiments on DIII-D have demonstrated the ecacy of using induced scrape-o€-layer (SOL) ̄ow to preferentially enrich impurities in the divertor plasma. This SOL ̄ow is produced through simultaneous deuterium gas injection at the midplane and divertor exhaust. Using this SOL ̄ow, an improvement in enrichment (de®ned as the ratio of impurity fraction in the divertor to that in the plasma core) has been observed for all impurities in trace-level experiments (i.e., impurity level is non-perturbative), with the degree of improvement increasing with impurity atomic number. In the case of argon, exhaust gas enrichment using modest SOL ̄ow is as high as 17. Using this induced SOL ̄ow technique and argon injection, radiative plasmas have been produced that combine high radiation losses (Prad/ Pinput > 70%), low core fuel dilution (Zeff < 1.9), and good core con®nement (sE > 1.0 sE;ITER93H). Ó 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.