NDLI: Relaxation of plasma rotation in toroidal magnetic confinement systems

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Author	Kovrizhnykh, L. M.
Copyright Year	2003
Abstract	A study is made of the relaxation of plasma rotation in nonaxisymmetric toroidal magnetic confinement systems, such as stellarators and rippled tokamaks. In this way, a solution to the drift kinetic equation is obtained that explicitly takes into account the time dependence of the distribution function, and expressions for the diffusive particle fluxes and longitudinal viscosity are derived that make it possible to write a closed set of equations describing the time evolution of the ambipolar electric field E and the longitudinal (with respect to the magnetic field) plasma velocity U $_{0}$. Solutions found to the set of evolutionary equations imply that the relaxation of these two parameters to their steady-state values occurs in the form of damped oscillations whose frequency is about 2v $_{T}$/R (where v $_{T}$ is the ion thermal velocity and R is the major plasma radius) and whose damping rate depends on the ion-ion collision frequency and on the magnetic field parameters. In particular, it is shown that, for tokamaks with a slightly rippled longitudinal magnetic field, the frequency of oscillations in the range q>2 (where q is the safety factor) is, as a rule, much higher than the damping rate. For stellarators, this turns out to be true only of the central plasma region, where the helical ripple amplitude ɛ of the magnetic field is much smaller than the toroidal ripple amplitude δ=r/R.
Starting Page	279
Ending Page	289
Page Count	11
File Format	PDF
ISSN	1063780X
Journal	Plasma Physics Reports
Volume Number	29
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	15626938
Language	English
Publisher	Nauka/Interperiodica
Publisher Date	2003-01-01
Publisher Place	Moscow
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Atoms, Molecules, Clusters and Plasmas
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Condensed Matter Physics

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