Electromagnetic effects on quasilinear turbulent particle transport
- Radio and Space Science, Chalmers University of Technology and EURATOM-VR Association, S-412 96 Goeteborg (Sweden)
It is well known that a nonadiabatic part of the electron density response is needed for particle transport in tokamaks. Such main reactive effects are electron trapping and electromagnetic induction. Although electron trapping has been studied rather extensively, electromagnetic effects have hardly been studied at all although they are already included in transport codes. Here the electromagnetic effects have been analyzed and parameter studies have been performed, showing that an electromagnetic particle pinch may appear in the flat density regime, just as for the case of electron trapping although the conditions are more restrictive. The particle pinch is particularly sensitive to the direction of propagation of the eigenmode. The electromagnetic particle flux is found to be outward for modes propagating in the ion drift direction and inward for modes propagating in the electron drift direction. A pinch may be obtained rather close to the axis for International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor simulation data.
- OSTI ID:
- 20764538
- Journal Information:
- Physics of Plasmas, Vol. 12, Issue 9; Other Information: DOI: 10.1063/1.2048738; (c) 2005 American Institute of Physics; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 1070-664X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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