Stellarator theory and stability
Abstract
This report summarizes our work in the past year on stellarator transport theory and stability. We have developed two methods of calculating diffusion rates due to ripple transport: a hybrid bounce-averaged/guiding-center Monte Carlo code, and a numerical method of solving the bounce-averaged Fokker-Planck equation. We have modified a one-dimensional transport code to describe the Wisconsin stellarator experiments and applied it to interpret experimental results, and we have studied stability in stellarators by writing a computer code which solves the linearized double-adiabatic equations as an initial value problem.
- Publication:
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Unknown
- Pub Date:
- 1986
- Bibcode:
- 1986sts..rept.....H
- Keywords:
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- Boundary Value Problems;
- Fokker-Planck Equation;
- Monte Carlo Method;
- Stability;
- Stellarators;
- Transport Theory;
- Computation;
- Computer Programs;
- Problem Solving;
- Plasma Physics