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Title: Direct statistical modeling of transport in a tandem mirror system

Abstract

The plasma in an open magnetic confinement system is modeled by an ensemble of test particles. The transverse drift of the particles of the nonaxiasymmetric magnetic fields is described by the finite transformation method. The effects of collisions are simulated by random changes in the velocity vectors of the test particles, to correspond to their scattering by the background plasma. The longitudinal and transverse loss and also the injection of atomic beams are taken into account. This model yields the magnitudes and characteristics of the longitudinal- and transverse-loss fluxes, the ion temperature, and the radial profile of the plasma density in the central region of the AMBAL ambipolar confinement (tandem mirror) system.

Authors:
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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Institute of Nuclear Physics, Siberian Branch, Academy of Sciences of the USSR
OSTI Identifier:
5501689
Resource Type:
Journal Article
Journal Name:
Sov. J. Plasma Phys. (Engl. Transl.); (United States)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 8:4
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; MAGNETIC MIRRORS; AMBIPOLAR DIFFUSION; PLASMA SIMULATION; CONFINEMENT TIME; KINETIC EQUATIONS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; TRAJECTORIES; TRANSPORT THEORY; DIFFUSION; EQUATIONS; OPEN PLASMA DEVICES; SIMULATION; THERMONUCLEAR DEVICES; 700105* - Fusion Energy- Plasma Research- Plasma Kinetics-Theoretical- (-1987)

Citation Formats

Lysyanskii, P B, Tiunov, M A, and Fomel', B M. Direct statistical modeling of transport in a tandem mirror system. United States: N. p., 1982. Web.
Lysyanskii, P B, Tiunov, M A, & Fomel', B M. Direct statistical modeling of transport in a tandem mirror system. United States.
Lysyanskii, P B, Tiunov, M A, and Fomel', B M. 1982. "Direct statistical modeling of transport in a tandem mirror system". United States.
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title = {Direct statistical modeling of transport in a tandem mirror system},
author = {Lysyanskii, P B and Tiunov, M A and Fomel', B M},
abstractNote = {The plasma in an open magnetic confinement system is modeled by an ensemble of test particles. The transverse drift of the particles of the nonaxiasymmetric magnetic fields is described by the finite transformation method. The effects of collisions are simulated by random changes in the velocity vectors of the test particles, to correspond to their scattering by the background plasma. The longitudinal and transverse loss and also the injection of atomic beams are taken into account. This model yields the magnitudes and characteristics of the longitudinal- and transverse-loss fluxes, the ion temperature, and the radial profile of the plasma density in the central region of the AMBAL ambipolar confinement (tandem mirror) system.},
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url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/5501689}, journal = {Sov. J. Plasma Phys. (Engl. Transl.); (United States)},
number = ,
volume = 8:4,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 1982},
month = {Thu Jul 01 00:00:00 EDT 1982}
}