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Momentum correction techniques for neoclassical transport in stellarators
- Source :
- Physics of Plasmas, v.16 (2009), Physics of Plasmas
- Publication Year :
- 2009
- Publisher :
- AIP Publishing, 2009.
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Abstract
- In the traditional neoclassical ordering for stellarators, monoenergetic transport coefficients are evaluated using the simplified Lorentz form of the pitch-angle collision operator which violates momentum conservation. In this paper, the parallel momentum balance with radial parallel momentum transport and viscosity terms is analyzed, in particular, with respect to the radial electric field. Next, the impact of momentum conservation in the stellarator long-mean-free-path regime is estimated for the radial transport and the parallel electric conductivity. Two different momentum correction techniques are described based on monoenergetic transport coefficients calculated by the DKES code [W. I. van Rij and S. P. Hirshman, Phys. Fluids B 1, 563 (1989)]. The benchmarking of the parallel electric conductivity and of the bootstrap current is presented for a tokamak as well as for two W7-X stellarator configurations [G. Grieger et al., Phys. Fluids B 4, 2081 (1992)]. Finally, the impact of the momentum correction on the expected total bootstrap current is briefly analyzed for two W7-X scenarios.
Details
- ISSN :
- 10897674 and 1070664X
- Volume :
- 16
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Physics of Plasmas
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....de274e9afc1ff85b78661e77cf601186
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3175328