Relating parallel and perpendicular flows in a magnetized toroidal plasma
Abstract
We present a general relationship between the transport of heat and particles across flux surfaces predicted by neoclassical theory and the parallel flows within those flux surfaces. We make no assumptions regarding collisionality, obtaining results valid in all collisionality regimes. Our results are constructed using variational solutions to Spitzer problems with appropriate source terms. While these Spitzer functions are particularly relevent to analysis of high collisionality regimes, here they are simply mathematical tools. We compare our results to previous work specific to the collision dominated Pfirsch-Schl"uter regime
ootnotetextHinton, F.L., and R.D. Hazeltine, 1976, Reviews of Modern Physics, 48, 239 and to low collisionality ion transport.
ootnotetextDieter, A., and R.D. Hazeltine, 2004, Physics of Plasmas
- Publication:
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APS Division of Plasma Physics Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- October 2005
- Bibcode:
- 2005APS..DPPLP1006D