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Boundary layer corrections to neoclassical ripple transport in tokamaks

 

作者: K. C. Shaing,   J. D. Callen,  

 

期刊: Physics of Fluids(00319171)  (AIP Available online 1982)
卷期: Volume 25, issue 6  

页码: 1012-1019

 

ISSN:0031-9171

 

年代: 1982

 

DOI:10.1063/1.863857

 

出版商: AIP

 

数据来源: AIP

 

摘要:

The discrete nature of the toroidal magnetic field coils spoils the symmetry of the tokamak and creates small modulations of the toroidal field called ripples. Particles trapped in the ripple well drift off the flux surface and enhance both particle and heat fluxes. In the usual ripple transport calculations, the derivative of the perturbed particle distribution function in velocity space is discontinuous at the boundary between the ripple trapped and untrapped regions. To smooth out the particle distribution across the boundary, the particle distribution in the boundary layer is calculated by using the Wiener–Hopf technique. The correction to the ripple‐trapped particle distribution function away from the boundary layer and the ripple transport associated with it are obtained. It is found that the particle diffusion and heat conduction coefficients are increased by about a factor of 2 and scale like &ngr;−1/2as (&ngr;eff/&ohgr;b&dgr;)1/2→1. Even for very collisionless plasmas, &ngr;eff/&ohgr;b&dgr;= 10−2, the corrections are still non‐negligible and are about 15%.

 

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