Open AccessNEOCLASSICAL TRANSPORT THEORY OF A MULTICOMPONENT PLASMA
Author(s) -
Hai-Lin Zhou
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
wuli xuebao
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.199
H-Index - 47
ISSN - 1000-3290
DOI - 10.7498/aps.33.309
Subject(s) - plasma , scaling , physics , component (thermodynamics) , rotational symmetry , toroid , operator (biology) , statistical physics , basis (linear algebra) , theoretical physics , mechanics , quantum mechanics , mathematics , geometry , biochemistry , chemistry , repressor , transcription factor , gene
The neoclassical scaling relations satisfying kenetic requirements are derived for a mul-ticomponent plasma in an axisymmetric toroidal magnetic configuration, using a model collision-operator and the variational principle developed by Rosenbluth and Glasser. On the basis of these scaling relations, explicit expressions for the neoclassical fluxes of the multi-component system are obtained in terms of the component parameters nj,mj,Zj and Tj. Finally, the dependence of the neoclassical transport coefficients on the aspect ratio R/r is discussed in detail.