Abstract
The toroidal plasma flow velocity of impurity ions has been significantly modified in the Saskatchewan Torus-Modified (STOR-M) tokamak by means of resonant magnetic perturbations (RMP). It has been found that the toroidal flow velocities of OV and CVI impurity ions change towards the co-current direction after the application of a current through a set of (l = 2, n = 1) RMP field coils. It has been observed that the reduction of the toroidal flow velocity is closely correlated to the reduction of the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) fluctuation frequency measured by Mirnov coils. Modulation of the flow velocity has been achieved by switching the RMP current pulses. Non-resonant magnetic perturbations have also induced a much smaller change in the toroidal plasma flow. A theoretical model has been adopted to assess the contributions of different drift mechanisms to magnetic islands rotation in STOR-M.