Toroidal currents and radial transport driven by ponderomotive forces of fluctuations in a plasma
Abstract
Non-resonant ponderomotive force theory is applied to fluctuating electromagnetic fields in a plasma. Bootstrap-type relations between the radial transport velocity and the toroidal current driven by fluctuations are also discussed in the case of non-zero ponderomotive forces proportional to d/dr. A special case of fluctuating fields as measured in the SHEILA heliac is discussed.
- Publication:
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Journal of Plasma Physics
- Pub Date:
- June 1995
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S0022377800018201
- Bibcode:
- 1995JPlPh..53..277P