19 research outputs found
Effects of poloidal variation of neutral density on Pfirsch-Schlüter transport near tokamak edge
Electrostatic turbulence in tokamaks on transport time scales
Simulating electrostatic turbulence in tokamaks on transport time scales requires retaining and evolving a complete turbulence modified neoclassical transport description, including all the axisymmetric neoclassical and zonal flow radial electric field effects, as well as the turbulent transport normally associated with drift instabilities. Neoclassical electric field effects are particularly difficult to retain since they require evaluating the ion distribution function to higher order in gyroradius over background scale length than standard gyrokinetic treatments. To avoid extending gyrokinetics an alternate hybrid gyrokinetic-fluid treatment is formulated that employs moments of the full Fokker-Planck kinetic equation to remove the need for a higher order gyrokinetic distribution function. The resulting hybrid description is able to model all electrostatic turbulence effects with wavelengths much longer than an electron Larmor radius such as the ion temperature gradient (ITG) and trapped electron modes (TEM). © 2008 IOP Publishing Ltd
Resistive stability of magnetic dipole and other axisymmetric closed field line configurations
Sources of intrinsic rotation in the low flow ordering
A low flow, gyrokinetic formulation to obtain the intrinsic
rotation profiles is presented. The momentum conservation equation in the low
flow ordering contains new terms, neglected in previous first principles
formulations, that may explain the intrinsic rotation observed in tokamaks in
the absence of external sources of momentum. The intrinsic rotation profile
depends on the density and temperature profiles and on the up-down asymmetry.Comment: 20 page