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Strongly peaked electron density profiles have been obtained in ASDEX by different refuelling methods: pellet fuelling (ohmic and co-injection heating), NBI counter-injection and recently by reduced gas puff fuelling scenarios. These discharges show in common increased density limits, a canonical electron temperature profile independent of the density profile and an improvement of the particle and energy confinement. Whereas the changes in particle transport are not fully understood, transport analyses point out that the improved energy transport can be explained by reduced ion conduction losses coming close to the neoclassical ones. The different results for the ion transport with flat and peaked density profiles are quantitatively consistent with that expected from qi-driven modes. The analyses cannot yet explain the anomalous electron energy transport, apart from identified continuous trends such as inverse scaling with the isotope mass and enhancement with heating power.

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Liquids or suspensions are divided into sprays of small droplets by atomization of two‐phase gas‐liquid mixtures. In this way either an equal distribution of the droplets or the generation of large surface areas of the liquid phase are accomplished, leading to increased heat‐ and mass‐transfer. The spatial and time dependency of the mean droplet diameter is a function of the total pressure upstream of the nozzle, the volumetric flow rate of the liquid and the gas, as well as on the flow regime in the nozzle. Thus the radial and axial profile of the void fraction inside the nozzle are measured with an electrical measurement technique. In addition, the flow in the nozzle is imaged by a high‐speed camera. Three flow regimes are identified. These are bubbly flow, plug flow and annular flow. A continuous flow of the emitting spray is observed for bubbly flow and annular flow only. The distribution of the dispersed bubble phase is given by ratio of the isothermic compression energy needed to pressurize the gas mass flow rate from atmospheric pressure up to the total pressure in front of the nozzle, and the potential energy of the supplied liquid mass flow rate.

The Divertor Tokamak ASDEX, its neutral injection system and its ICRH system have been modified to pennit additional heating with a power of 6 MW for pulse lengths up to 10 s. The paper summarizes the arguments for long-pulse heating, describes the technical modifications of the divertor performed, their effect on the operational behaviour of the tokamak and presents a few typical results of recent experiments exploiting the long-pulse heating facilities.