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Nonlocal heat transport in a stochastic magnetic field

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/6255493· OSTI ID:6255493
Heat transport in a stochastic magnetic field configuration is shown to be nonlocal. Collisional transport processes, in such a disordered media, cannot always be reduced to a standard diffusion process, and the concept of a diffusion coefficient is meaningless for a wide range of typical tokamak parameters. In the nonlocal regime the relaxation of a gradient is described by an integral equation, involving a nonlocal propagator. This propagator is calculated, and the relation to previous results is elucidated. 15 refs.
Research Organization:
Princeton Univ., NJ (United States). Plasma Physics Lab.
Sponsoring Organization:
DOE; USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
AC02-76CH03073
OSTI ID:
6255493
Report Number(s):
PPPL-2787; ON: DE92003991
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English