Published April 1991
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Journal article
Inclusion of poloidal potential variation in neoclassical transport
Description
Inclusion of the electrostatic potential is found to increase the electron neoclassical heat flux by an order of magnitude, while producing only a modest increase in the ion heat flux. The analysis is done for the plateau regime, though a similar behavior is expected in the banana regime. The poloidally varying potential, determined by quasineutrality, is predominantly due to ion Landau damping. The resulting ExB drift introduces terms into the electron heat flux that are comparable to those previously derived for the ion heat flux. Similar terms enter the particle flux, but here they cancel due to momentum balance
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physics of Fluids B
- Journal Volume
- 3
- Journal Issue
- 4
- Series
- Phys. Fluids B.
- Journal Page Range
- 981-988
- ISSN
- 0899-8221
- CODEN
- PFBPE
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 22057568
- Subject category
- S70: PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY;
- Descriptors DEI
- AMBIPOLAR DIFFUSION; AUGMENTATION; COULOMB FIELD; EQUILIBRIUM; HEAT FLUX; KINETIC EQUATIONS; LANDAU DAMPING; MAGNETIC SURFACES; PLASMA; PLATEAU REGIME; POTENTIALS; SCALING LAWS; TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS; TRANSPORT THEORY
- Descriptors DEC
- DAMPING; DIFFUSION; ELECTRIC FIELDS; EQUATIONS; MAGNETIC FIELD CONFIGURATIONS