Kinetic simulation of heating and collisional transport in a 3D tokamak

The microwave plasma heating has a strong influence on collisional transport, experimentally observed both in stellarators and tokamaks. The estimate of the interplay between heating and collisional transport implies solving a 5D kinetic equation. We deal with this problem using a recently developed code (ISDEP: Integrator of Stochastic Differential Equations for Plasmas) in a tokamak with ripple as a test device, introducing the heating effects. In this work we develop a method for a non-linear computation of the time-dependent plasma temperature profile, based on several linear calculations. The influence of heating on the relevant transport parameters, on plasma rotation and on the velocity distribution function is studied. (author)