Fluid and Kinetic Modelling on Timescales Longer than the Confinement Time in Bounded Systems

Journal Article · Thu Oct 08 00:00:00 EDT 2009 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3253969· OSTI ID:21322948

Weiland, Jan ^[1]; Zagorodny, Anatoly; Zasenko, Volodymyr ^[2]

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1. Chalmers University of Technology and EURATOM-VR Association, Gothenburg (Sweden)
2. Bogoliubov Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kiev (Ukraine)

The problem of fluid modelling on timescales longer than the confinement time is addressed as a problem of decay of high order moments without sources. Several mechanisms for the decay of higher order moments are discussed and very strong experimental evidence is given for toroidal plasmas.

• OSTI ID: 21322948
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 1177, Issue 1; Conference: Workshop on from Leonardo to ITER: Nonlinear and coherence aspects, Goeteborg (Sweden), 18-19 May 2009; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.3253969; (c) 2009 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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