Annihilation model of the Tormac sheath

Technical Report · Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 1979

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6245912· OSTI ID:6245912

Hammer, J H

A one-dimensional, steady state fluid model is developed to describe the boundary layer between plasma and magnetic field that occurs in the Tormac sheath. Similar systems which may be treatable by the same model are tokamaks with divertors and reversed field mirrors. The model includes transport across the magnetic field as well as mirror losses along the field, the latter being represented as annihilation terms in the one-dimensional equations. The model equations are derived from the two-dimensional, time dependent hierarchy of equations generated by taking velocity moments of the kinetic equation including collisions.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-48
• OSTI ID: 6245912
• Report Number(s): LBL-8748; TRN: 79-016731
• Resource Relation: Other Information: Thesis
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY
TORMAC DEVICES
BOUNDARY LAYERS
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
DIVERTORS
MAGNETIC FIELD REVERSAL
MAGNETIC MIRRORS
NONLINEAR PROBLEMS
ONE-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS
PLASMA SHEATH
TOKAMAK DEVICES
CLOSED PLASMA DEVICES
LAYERS
MAGNETIC FIELDS
OPEN PLASMA DEVICES
THERMONUCLEAR DEVICES
700105* - Fusion Energy- Plasma Research- Plasma Kinetics-Theoretical- (-1987)