Published May 2004 | Version v1
Journal article

Effects of electromagnetic turbulence in the neoclassical Ohm's law

  • 1. General Atomics, P.O. Box 85608, San Diego, California 92186 (United States)

Description

An Ohm's law for tokamak plasmas has been derived, which includes the effect of electromagnetic turbulence as well as the neoclassical conductivity and bootstrap current. The most important current-driving effects of the turbulence have been identified, expressions for the driven (dynamo) current have been derived and these have been evaluated using the GYRO electromagnetic turbulence code [J. Candy and R. E. Waltz, J. Comput. Phys. 186, 545 (2003)]. The most important current drive mechanism, the divergence of the radial flux of parallel electron momentum induced by magnetic flutter, drives a current density which has positive peaks on low order rational surfaces, with compensating negative dips nearby, thus driving zero total current. Another current drive mechanism, the beating of the parallel electric field fluctuations with the electron density fluctuations, drives a current density which is much smaller than that driven by the magnetic flutter mechanism, but could drive a nonzero total current

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Physics of Plasmas
Journal Volume
11
Journal Issue
5
Journal Page Range
p. 2433-2440
ISSN
1070-664X
CODEN
PHPAEN

Conference

Title
45. annual meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics
Dates
27-31 Oct 2003
Place
Albuquerque, NM (United States)

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
36002249
Subject category
S70: PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
BOOTSTRAP CURRENT; CURRENT DENSITY; ELECTRON DENSITY; FLUCTUATIONS; NEOCLASSICAL TRANSPORT THEORY; OHM LAW; TOKAMAK DEVICES; TURBULENCE
Descriptors DEC
CHARGED-PARTICLE TRANSPORT THEORY; CLOSED PLASMA DEVICES; CURRENTS; ELECTRIC CURRENTS; THERMONUCLEAR DEVICES; TRANSPORT THEORY; VARIATIONS

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(c) 2004 American Institute of Physics.