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Abstract. Experiments on electron heat transport were performed in the tokamak ASDEX Upgrade, mainly in ohmically heated plasmas, applying either edge cooling by impurity injection or edge heat pulses with ECH. Repetitive pulses within one plasma discharge were made allowing Fourier transformation of the temperature perturbation. This yields a good signal to noise ratio up to high harmonics and allows a detailed investigation of the pulse propagation. For densities lower than 1.8×1019m- 3, an increase of the central electron temperature was found as the response to the edge cooling via impurity injection similar to observations made in other tokamaks. The inversion does not appear instantaneously, but with a time delay roughly compatible with diffusion. Modeling of the propagation of the cold pulses in the framework of the IFS-PPPL model yields qualitative agreement. However the predicted increase of the ion temperature is not observed experimentally on the fast time scale. The response to ECH heat pulses is not perfectly symmetrical to cold pulse experiments, but the similarities suggest a common underlying physical mechanism. No inversion of the heat pulse is found, instead the initial pulse from the edge is associated with a second, much slower heat pulse in the centre which is similar (and not symmetrical) to that of the cold pulses. It is found that the central increase is related to the arrival of the pulse close to the inversion radius and not to the initial pulse.
IAEA 2001
