The Research of EAST Pedestal Structure and Preliminary Application

The pedestal characteristic is an important basis for high confinement mode （H- mode） research. Because of the finite spatial resolution of Thomson scattering （TS） diagnostic on Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak （EAST）, it is necessary to characterize the pedestal with a suitable functional form. Based on simulated and experimental data of EAST, it is shown that the two-line method with a bilinear fitting has better reproducibility of pedestal parameters than hyperbolic tangent （tanh） and modified hyperbolic tangent （mtanh） methods. This method has been applied to EAST type I edge localized mode （ELM） discharges, and the electron pedestal density is found to be proportional to the line-averaged density and the edge pressure gradient is found to be proportional to the pedestal pressure. Furthermore, the ion poloidal gyro-radius has been identified as the suitable parameter to describe the pedestal pressure width.