Published February 2001 | Version v1
Journal article

Poloidal rotation induced by injecting lower hybrid waves in tokamak plasma edge

  • 1. Southwestern Inst. of Physics, Chengdu (China)

Description

The poloidal rotation of the magnetized edge plasma in tokamak driven by the ponderomotive force which is generated by injecting lower hybrid wave (LHW) electric field has been studied. The LHW is launched from a waveguide in the plasma edge, and by Brambilla's grill theory, analytic expressions for the wave electric field in the slab model of an inhomogeneous cold plasma have been derived. It is shown that a strong wave electric field will be generated in the plasma edge by injecting LH wave of the power in MW magnitude, and this electric field will induce a poloidal rotation with a sheared poloidal velocity

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Journal Title
Plasma Science and Technology
Journal Volume
3
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 607-611
ISSN
1009-0630