Limitations, insights and improvements to gyrokinetics

We first consider gyrokinetic quasineutrality limitations when evaluating the axisymmetric radial electric field in a non-turbulent tokamak by an improved examination of intrinsic ambipolarity. We next prove that the background ions in a pedestal of poloidal ion gyroradius scale must be Maxwellian a...

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Main Authors: Catto, P, Parra, F, Kagan, G, Simakov, A
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2009