Bounce-averaged Monte Carlo transport code for Elmo Bumpy Torus
A bounce averaged Monte Carlo code for transport in the toroidally confined plasma in Elmo Bumpy Torus (EBT) is developed. First, the basic ideas of the calculation of diffusion coefficients in a plasma by the Monte Carlo method are described. A simple application of the method is provided by an idealized calculation of resonant ion diffusion in EBT, a situation in which only one velocity space dimension and only two configuration space dimensions are required. The bulk of the work presented is the development of a much more general Monte Carlo code suitable for examining many different transport processes in EBT. Since the drift and transport motion in EBT occur on a much slower time scale than the parallel streaming motion, the plasma properties and all the important three-dimensional geometrical effects are accurately represented by a bounce-averaged description leaving two configuration space coordinates and two velocity space dimensions.
- Research Organization:
- Tennessee Univ., Knoxville (USA)
- OSTI ID:
- 5801498
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: Thesis (Ph. D.)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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ELMO BUMPY TORUS
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ION MOBILITY
MONTE CARLO METHOD
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BUMPY TORI
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MAGNETIC MIRRORS
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TRANSPORT THEORY
700105* - Fusion Energy- Plasma Research- Plasma Kinetics-Theoretical- (-1987)