Published June 1996
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Journal article
Test-particle transport in strong electrostatic drift turbulencewith finite Larmor radius effects
Creators
- 1. United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority, Government Division, Fusion, Culham, Abingdon, OX14 3DB (United Kingdom)
Description
Test-particle transport arising from ExB motion in a turbulent plasma is investigated numerically. The electrostatic field is determined by solving the Hasegawa-Mima model for two-dimensional drift turbulence. In the linear regime the particles experience stochastic diffusion, but in the fully nonlinear, strongly turbulent regime the diffusion rate is greatly reduced. Finite Larmor radius effects, relevant to alpha-particle transport in tokamaks, are also shown to strongly inhibit the level of transport
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physical Review Letters
- Journal Volume
- 76
- Journal Issue
- 23
- Journal Page Range
- p. 4360-4363.
- ISSN
- 0031-9007
- CODEN
- PRLTAO
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 27079562
- Subject category
- S70: PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; S70: PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; S70: PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY;
- Descriptors DEI
- ALPHA PARTICLES; CONTINUITY EQUATIONS; DIFFUSION; LARMOR RADIUS; NONLINEAR PROBLEMS; PLASMA DRIFT; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TEST PARTICLES; TOKAMAK DEVICES; TRANSPORT; TURBULENCE; TWO-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS
- Descriptors DEC
- CHARGED PARTICLES; CLOSED PLASMA DEVICES; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EQUATIONS; HELIUM IONS; IONIZING RADIATIONS; IONS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; RADIATIONS; THERMONUCLEAR DEVICES