<正> Ion’s toroidal velocity,v_t,in both the outermost 4 cm of the confined region and thescrap-off layer of Ohmic L-mode plasmas in EAST was measured using Mach probes.At about1 cm inside the separatrix a local minimum in v_t was observed,from which a cocurrent rotationincreased both inwards and outwards.The radial width of the v_t dip was 1 cm to 2 cm,andboth the density and electron temperature profiles exhibited steep gradients at this dip position.It was observed in both divertor and limiter configurations.To find out its origin,the toroidaltorques induced by neutral friction,neoclassical viscosity,collisional perpendicular shear viscosity,ion orbit loss and turbulent Reynolds stress were estimated using the measured parameters.Ourresults indicate that in this particular parameter regime the neutral friction was the dominantdamping force.The calculated cocurrent toroidal torque by the neoclassical viscosity dominatesover those from the collisional perpendicular shear viscosity,ion orbit loss and turbulent Reynoldsstress.These results are potentially important for the understanding of boundary conditions forthe intrinsic toroidal momentum in tokamak plasmas.
Ion's toroidal velocity, vt, in both the outermost 4 cm of the confined region and the scrap-off layer of Ohmic L-mode plasmas in EAST was measured using Mach probes. At about 1 cm inside the separatrix a local minimum in vt was observed, from which a cocurrent rotation increased both inwards and outwards. The radial width of the vt dip was 1 cm to 2 cm, and both the density and electron temperature profiles exhibited steep gradients at this dip position. It was observed in both divertor and limiter configurations. To find out its origin, the toroidal torques induced by neutral friction, neoclassical viscosity, collisional perpendicular shear viscosity, ion orbit loss and turbulent Reynolds stress were estimated using the measured parameters. Our results indicate that in this particular parameter regime the neutral friction was the dominant damping force. The calculated cocurrent toroidal torque by the neoclassical viscosity dominates over those from the collisional perpendicular shear viscosity, ion orbit loss and turbulent Reynolds stress. These results are potentially important for the understanding of boundary conditions for the intrinsic toroidal momentum in tokamak plasmas.