Collisional effects on resonant particles in quasilinear theory

Catto, Peter J.

doi:10.7910/DVN/ZWVNQF

Title: Collisional effects on resonant particles in quasilinear theory

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A careful examination of the effects of collisions on resonant wave-particle interactions leads to an alternate interpretation and deeper understanding of the quasilinear operator originally formulated by Kennel and Engelmann (Phys. Fluids vol. 9, 1966, pp. 2377- 2388) for collisionless, magnetized plasmas, and widely used to model radio frequency heating and current drive. The resonant and nearly resonant particles are particularly sensitive to collisions that pitch angle scatter them out of and into resonance. As a result, the resonant particle-wave interactions occur in the center of a narrow collisional boundary when the collision frequency nu is very small compared to the wave frequency omega. The diffusive nature of the pitch angle scattering combined with the wave-particle resonance condition enhances the collision frequency by (omega/nu)2/3 >>1, resulting in an effective resonant particle collision time of tau_int ~ (nu /omega)2/3 nu <<1/ nu . A rigorous collisional boundary layer analysis generalizes the standard quasilinear operator to a form that is fully consistent with Kennel-Englemann, but allows replacing the delta function appearing in the diffusivity with a simple integral (having the appropriate delta function limit) retaining the new physics associated with the narrow boundary layer, while preserving the entropy production principle. The limitationsmore »« less

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Catto, Peter J.

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Publication Date:: Tue May 11 04:00:00 UTC 2021

DOE Contract Number:: FG02-91ER54109

Research Org.:: Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States). Plasma Science and Fusion Center

Sponsoring Org.:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Fusion Energy Sciences (FES)

Subject:: 70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY

OSTI Identifier:: 1882415

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/ZWVNQF

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