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Neoclassical electron and ion transport in toroidally rotating plasmas
Author(s) -
H. Sugama,
W. Horton
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
physics of plasmas
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.75
H-Index - 160
eISSN - 1089-7674
pISSN - 1070-664X
DOI - 10.1063/1.872385
Subject(s) - physics , plasma , electron , ion , electric field , symmetry (geometry) , momentum (technical analysis) , atomic physics , quantum electrodynamics , toroid , rotational symmetry , vlasov equation , collisionality , tokamak , classical mechanics , mechanics , quantum mechanics , geometry , mathematics , finance , economics
Neoclassical transport processes of electrons and ions are investigated in detail for toroidally rotating axisymmetric plasmas with large flow velocities on the order of the ion thermal speed. The Onsager relations for the flow-dependent neoclassical transport coefficients are derived from the symmetry properties of the drift kinetic equation with the self-adjoint collision operator. The complete neoclassical transport matrix with the Onsager symmetry is obtained for the rotating plasma consisting of electrons and single-species ions in the Pfirsch?Schl?ter and banana regimes. It is found that the inward banana fluxes of particles and toroidal momentum are driven by the parallel electric field, which are phenomena coupled through the Onsager symmetric off-diagonal coefficients to the parallel currents caused by the radial thermodynamic forces conjugate to the inward fluxes, respectively

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