Published January 2008 | Version v1
Report

Collisional transport of multi-ion-species plasmas in general non-symmetric toroidal configurations

  • 1. National Inst. for Fusion Science, Toki, Gifu (Japan)
  • 2. Kyoto Univ., Graduate School of Energy Science, Uji, Kyoto (Japan)

Description

A previous formulation of the neoclassical transport in helical/stellarator devices based on the moment equation approach is extended to allow the poloidal and toroidal variation of the densities and temperatures of δna/na, δTa/Ta < δB/B. Since the transport of impurities with high collisionalities (so-called Pfirsch-Schlueter diffusions which are separated in our previous works) is determined by the local parallel force balance before the flux-surface averaging including these variations δna, δTa an important purpose of this extension is to study radial profiles of the impurity density under the self-consistent ambipolar radial electric field Er in plasmas containing electrons and main ions corresponding to the collisionless (l/ν, ν, or banana) regimes or the plateau regime, and impurity ions in the Pfirsch-Schlueter regime. The Legendre-Laguerre expansion with orders of l=0, 1 and j=0,1,2 is used for this local momentum balance to include the energy scattering collisions and the effect of the radial electric field in non-symmetric toroidal plasmas. (author)

Part of:
Joint conference of 17th international Toki conference on physics of flows and turbulence in plasmas and 16th international stellarator/heliotron workshop 2007. Proceedings (2)

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Publishing Information

Imprint Title
Joint conference of 17th international Toki conference on physics of flows and turbulence in plasmas and 16th international stellarator/heliotron workshop 2007. Proceedings (2)
Imprint Pagination
889 p.
Journal Page Range
p. 578-581
Report number
NIFS-PROC--69-V2

Conference

Title
17. international Toki conference on physics of flows and turbulence in plasmas; ISHW-16: 16. international stellarator/heliotron workshop
Acronym
ITC-17
Dates
15-19 Oct 2007
Place
Toki, Gifu (Japan)

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Notes
18 refs., 1 fig.