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Similarity of the coupled equations for RF waves in a tokamak
- Source :
- Physics of Plasmas. 26:012505
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- AIP Publishing, 2019.
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Abstract
- In this paper, a similarity relation between RF wave systems in tokamaks is found theoretically by investigating scaling conditions of plasma density and temperature, tokamak size and background magnetic fields, and RF wave frequency and power. The scaling conditions simultaneously satisfy Maxwell's equations, the Grad-Shafranov equation, and the Fokker-Planck equation. The consistency of the scaling with transport equations is examined by several empirical and theoretical scalings for confinement time. The similarity found in this paper is useful to investigate the possibility of the test system for RF wave experiments and verify the coupled numerical codes for the wave modeling.In this paper, a similarity relation between RF wave systems in tokamaks is found theoretically by investigating scaling conditions of plasma density and temperature, tokamak size and background magnetic fields, and RF wave frequency and power. The scaling conditions simultaneously satisfy Maxwell's equations, the Grad-Shafranov equation, and the Fokker-Planck equation. The consistency of the scaling with transport equations is examined by several empirical and theoretical scalings for confinement time. The similarity found in this paper is useful to investigate the possibility of the test system for RF wave experiments and verify the coupled numerical codes for the wave modeling.
- Subjects :
- Physics
Tokamak
Similarity (geometry)
Field (physics)
Condensed Matter Physics
01 natural sciences
010305 fluids & plasmas
Computational physics
law.invention
Magnetic field
symbols.namesake
Maxwell's equations
Physics::Plasma Physics
law
0103 physical sciences
symbols
Fokker–Planck equation
Radio frequency
010306 general physics
Scaling
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 10897674 and 1070664X
- Volume :
- 26
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Physics of Plasmas
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........124406a84695b4f9eab05924ae25a37f
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5066288