Neoclassical viscosity of L = 1 helical-axis heliotron plasmas for arbitrary collision frequencies and radial electric fields
- 1. Kyoto University, Graduate School of Energy Science, Uji, Kyoto (Japan)
- 2. National Institute for Fusion Science, Toki, Gifu (Japan)
Description
Numerical methods for solving the monoenergetic drift kinetic equation (DKE) are powerful tools for obtaining viscosity coefficients. However, these methods do not apply when the collision frequency and radial electric field become large. For example, when the radial electric field becomes large, poloidal resonance effect occurs and degrades the accuracy of the numerical solutions to DKE. But when we calculate the neoclassical viscosity in Heliotron J, which is an L = 1 helical-axis heliotron device, we cannot neglect the resonance effect in the presence of high-Z ions. In this study, we combine viscosity coefficients calculated by the numerical method with those obtained from analytical solutions that take the effects of the first poloidal resonance into account. We use this method to obtain monoenergetic viscosity coefficients for arbitrary collision frequencies and radial electric fields in the L = 1 heliotron device. (author)
Availability note (English)
Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1585/pfr.9.1403145Additional details
Identifiers
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Plasma and Fusion Research
- Journal Volume
- 9
- Journal Page Range
- p. 1403145.1-1403145.5
- ISSN
- 1880-6821
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Japan
- Country of Input or Organization
- Japan
- INIS RN
- 47015600
- Subject category
- S70: PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY;
- Descriptors DEI
- COLLISIONS; COMPUTERIZED SIMULATION; CONSERVATION LAWS; ELECTRIC FIELDS; KINETIC EQUATIONS; LANGMUIR FREQUENCY; LINEAR MOMENTUM; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PLASMA DRIFT; POLOIDAL FIELD DIVERTORS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION
- Descriptors DEC
- DISTRIBUTION; DIVERTORS; EQUATIONS; MATHEMATICS; SIMULATION
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- Notes
- 19 refs., 4 figs.