Analysis on Anomalous Conductivity and Heat Pulse Propagation in Tokamak

Heat pulse propagation is analyzed for different models of electron heat conduction coefficient χ_e. Cases in which initial temperature perturbation is induced by (1) electron cyclotron heating (ECH) or (2) sawtooth are studied. Five models are adopted which have various dependences on temperature or temperature gradient. A model in which χ_e has a temperature-gradient dependence explains the discrepancy that the values derived from heat pulse propagation deviate from those obtained from the stationary power balance in experiments. In this case the deviation is found to have appreciable radial dependence.