Transport of a Multiple Ion Species Plasma in the Pfirsch--Schluter Regime

Transport of a Multiple Ion Species Plasma in the Pfirsch--Schluter Regime
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Release: 1976
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The classical parallel friction coefficients, which relate the collisional friction forces to the flow of particles and heat along the magnetic field, are calculated for a multiple ion species plasma. In the short mean free path regime, the neoclassical Pfirsch--Schlueter transport coefficients for a toroidally confined multispecies plasma are computed in terms of the classical friction coefficients. The dependence of the neoclassical cross-field transport on the equilibration of the parallel ion temperature profiles is determined.

Computational Methods in Plasma Physics

Computational Methods in Plasma Physics
Author: Stephen Jardin
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 2010-06-02
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9781439810958

Assuming no prior knowledge of plasma physics or numerical methods, Computational Methods in Plasma Physics covers the computational mathematics and techniques needed to simulate magnetically confined plasmas in modern magnetic fusion experiments and future magnetic fusion reactors. Largely self-contained, the text presents the basic concepts neces

Transport Processes in Multicomponent Plasma

Transport Processes in Multicomponent Plasma
Author: V.M. Zhdanov
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2002-04-11
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1482265109

Transport Processes in Multicomponent Plasma is a revised and updated version of the original Russian edition. The book examines transport phenomena in multicomponent plasma and looks at important issues such as partially ionized gases, molecular gas mixtures and methods of calculating kinetic coefficients. It makes a logical progression from simpl

Turbulent Transport In Magnetized Plasmas

Turbulent Transport In Magnetized Plasmas
Author: C Wendell Horton, Jr
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 518
Release: 2012-08-22
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9814483885

The book explains how magnetized plasmas self-organize in states of electromagnetic turbulence that transports particles and energy out of the core plasma faster than anticipated by the fusion scientists designing magnetic confinement systems in the 20th century. It describes theory, experiments and simulations in a unified and up-to-date presentation of the issues of achieving nuclear fusion power.

Neoclassical Transport in Plasmas Containing Ions with Multiple Charge States

Neoclassical Transport in Plasmas Containing Ions with Multiple Charge States
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It is shown that, in the calculation of the Spitzer function and the Pfirsch-Schlueter transport coefficients of a multispecies plasma, a considerable simplification occurs for the case of ions with multiple charge states. The number of coupled integral equations to be solved can be reduced from the total number of species to the number of species with different nuclei. This generalizes an earlier treatment, in which such a reduction was found under the assumption of the disparate mass approximation. The solutions are expressed in terms of quantities defined wholly within a system of simple ions.

Fusion Plasma Physics

Fusion Plasma Physics
Author: Weston M. Stacey
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 674
Release: 2012-10-15
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3527411348

This revised and enlarged second edition of the popular textbook and reference contains comprehensive treatments of both the established foundations of magnetic fusion plasma physics and of the newly developing areas of active research. It concludes with a look ahead to fusion power reactors of the future. The well-established topics of fusion plasma physics -- basic plasma phenomena, Coulomb scattering, drifts of charged particles in magnetic and electric fields, plasma confinement by magnetic fields, kinetic and fluid collective plasma theories, plasma equilibria and flux surface geometry, plasma waves and instabilities, classical and neoclassical transport, plasma-materials interactions, radiation, etc. -- are fully developed from first principles through to the computational models employed in modern plasma physics. The new and emerging topics of fusion plasma physics research -- fluctuation-driven plasma transport and gyrokinetic/gyrofluid computational methodology, the physics of the divertor, neutral atom recycling and transport, impurity ion transport, the physics of the plasma edge (diffusive and non-diffusive transport, MARFEs, ELMs, the L-H transition, thermal-radiative instabilities, shear suppression of transport, velocity spin-up), etc. -- are comprehensively developed and related to the experimental evidence. Operational limits on the performance of future fusion reactors are developed from plasma physics and engineering constraints, and conceptual designs of future fusion power reactors are discussed.