Quasi-linear transport model for mirror machines
Abstract
A quasi-linear model to describe the evolution of a mirror plasma is presented. It is shown that, as in the 2XIIB mirror experiment, a plasma stream sufficiently reduces rf turbulence so that a high density steady state mirror plasma can be sustained by a neutral beam. The scaling law for this plasma configuration is derived. The energy lifetime is found to be the Spitzer electron-ion drag time even when electron thermal conduction to the external plasma can be neglected.
- Publication:
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Physics of Fluids
- Pub Date:
- July 1977
- DOI:
- 10.1063/1.861994
- Bibcode:
- 1977PhFl...20.1080B
- Keywords:
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- Magnetic Mirrors;
- Magnetohydrodynamic Stability;
- Mathematical Models;
- Plasma Control;
- Plasma Turbulence;
- Transport Theory;
- Charge Exchange;
- Computerized Simulation;
- Dense Plasmas;
- Finite Difference Theory;
- Life (Durability);
- Neutral Particles;
- Plasma-Particle Interactions;
- Steady State;
- Plasma Physics