Successful operation of a tokamak relies on effective and appropriate methods of plasma fueling. The development plan of Thailand Tokamak-1 (TT-1) will employ the supersonic molecular beam injection (SMBI) which delivers the fueling gas more effectively and deeper than the gas puffing method. In this work, we study the effect of SMBI on the plasma transport of TT-1 plasma by using 3D fluid simulation. The model includes the continuity equation, energy balance equation, momentum equation, continuity of fuel equation, and momentum of fuel. BOUT++ is then used to solve these equations by a finite difference method with the field-aligned coordinates in the edge region. The simulation shows that when hydrogen fuel gas is by the SMBI method from the low-field side into the plasma with a speed of 1000 m/s, the electron density in the edge locally rises as a result of the dissociation and ionization. The ion and electron temperatures then drop. After that, the density spread over the whole plasma volume within about 10 ms. When the injection speed increases, it results in a deeper penetration length of the fuel deposition.
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