Published May 20, 2002
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Journal article
Radial transport and electron-cyclotron-current drive in the TCV and DIII-D tokamaks
Creators
- 1. General Atomics, P.O. Box 85608, San Diego, California 92186-5608 (United States)
Description
Calculation of electron-cyclotron-current drive (ECCD) with the comprehensive CQL3D Fokker-Planck code for a TCV tokamak shot gives 550 kA of driven toroidal current, in marked disagreement with the 100-kA experimental value. Published ECCD efficiencies calculated with CQL3D in the much larger, higher-confinement DIII-D tokamak are in excellent agreement with experiment. The disagreement is resolved by including in the calculations electrostatic-type radial transport at levels given by global energy confinement in tokamaks. The radial transport of energy and toroidal current are in agreement
Additional details
Identifiers
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review Letters
- Journal Volume
- 88
- Journal Issue
- 20
- Journal Page Range
- p. 205001-205001.4
- ISSN
- 0031-9007
- CODEN
- PRLTAO
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 35019240
- Subject category
- S70: PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY;
- Descriptors DEI
- CHARGED-PARTICLE TRANSPORT; FOKKER-PLANCK EQUATION; PLASMA; PLASMA CONFINEMENT; PLASMA SIMULATION; TOKAMAK DEVICES; TURBULENCE
- Descriptors DEC
- CLOSED PLASMA DEVICES; CONFINEMENT; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EQUATIONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; RADIATION TRANSPORT; SIMULATION; THERMONUCLEAR DEVICES
Optional Information
- Notes
- (c) 2002 The American Physical Society