Intrinsic Rotation Driven by Non-Maxwellian Equilibria in Tokamak Plasmas
The effect of small deviations from a Maxwellian equilibrium on turbulent momentum transport in tokamak plasmas is considered. These non-Maxwellian features, arising from diamagnetic effects, introduce a strong dependence of the radial flux of cocurrent toroidal angular momentum on collisionality: A...
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| 語言: | en_US |
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American Physical Society
2013
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| 在線閱讀: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/81372 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9621-7404 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2951-9749 |
| 總結: | The effect of small deviations from a Maxwellian equilibrium on turbulent momentum transport in tokamak plasmas is considered. These non-Maxwellian features, arising from diamagnetic effects, introduce a strong dependence of the radial flux of cocurrent toroidal angular momentum on collisionality: As the plasma goes from nearly collisionless to weakly collisional, the flux reverses direction from radially inward to outward. This indicates a collisionality-dependent transition from peaked to hollow rotation profiles, consistent with experimental observations of intrinsic rotation. |
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