Neoclassical plasma viscosity and transport processes in non-axisymmetric tori

KC Shaing, K Ida, SA Sabbagh - Nuclear Fusion, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Neoclassical transport processes are important to the understanding of plasma confinement
physics in doubly periodic magnetized toroidal plasmas, especially, after the impact of the …

First principles based simulations of instabilities and turbulence

L Villard, P Angelino, A Bottino, SJ Allfrey… - Plasma physics and …, 2004 - iopscience.iop.org
It is now widely believed that low frequency turbulence developing from small-scale
instabilities is responsible for the phenomenon of anomalous transport generally observed …

VENUS+δf: A Bootstrap Current Calculation Module for 3-D Configurations

MY Isaev, S Brunner, WA Cooper, TM Tran… - Fusion science and …, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
A new three-dimensional code, VENUS+ δf, for neoclassical transport calculations in
nonaxisymmetric toroidal systems is presented. Numerical drift orbits from the original …

Bootstrap current simulations with experimental LHD plasma density and temperature profiles, energy scattering and finite orbit width

MY Isaev, KY Watanabe, S Satake… - Plasma and Fusion …, 2012 - jstage.jst.go.jp
The bootstrap current jb is connected with collisional movements of the charged particles
trapped in local mirror fields. For non-axisymmetric toroidal systems, the problems are …

LHD Bootstrap Current Coefficient Calculations with the VENUS+ δ f code

MY Isaev, KY Watanabe, M Yokoyama… - Plasma and Fusion …, 2008 - jstage.jst.go.jp
The LHD is a superconducting large helical device with a helical field with poloidal winding
number l= 2 and m= 10 toroidal field periods [1]. The LHD super dense core (SDC) plasma …

Moment approach to the bootstrap current in nonaxisymmetric toroidal plasmas using δf Monte Carlo methods

A Matsuyama, MY Isaev, KY Watanabe… - Physics of …, 2009 - pubs.aip.org
To evaluate the bootstrap current in nonaxisymmetric toroidal plasmas quantitatively, a δ f
Monte Carlo method is incorporated into the moment approach. From the drift-kinetic …

Quasi-helical symmetry at finite aspect ratio

C Nührenberg, MI Mikhailov, J Nührenberg… - Plasma physics …, 2010 - Springer
Quasi Helical Symmetry at Finite Aspect Ratio1 Page 1 ISSN 1063 780X, Plasma Physics
Reports, 2010, Vol. 36, No. 7, pp. 558–562. © Pleiades Publishing, Ltd., 2010. Original …

Magnetohydrodynamic stability of free-boundary quasi-axisymmetric stellarator equilibria with finite bootstrap current

WA Cooper, SF Margalet, SJ Allfrey… - Fusion science and …, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
The impact of the bootstrap current is investigated on the equilibrium properties of a two-
period quasi-axisymmetric stellarator reactor with free boundary and on the corresponding …

[PDF][PDF] Elimination of the Bootstrap Current Factor in Stellarators with Poloidally Closed Contours of the Magnetic Field Strength

AA Subbotin, WA Cooper, MI Mikhailov… - … Society Conference on …, 2003 - pure.mpg.de
The value of bootstrap current in stellarator configurations depends strongly on the type of
configuration. For stellarators with mod-B contours closed in the poloidal direction, one …

A condition for small bootstrap current in three-dimensional toroidal configurations

MI Mikhailov, J Nührenberg, R Zille - Plasma Physics Reports, 2016 - Springer
It is shown that, if the maximum of the magnetic field strength on a magnetic surface in a
threedimensional magnetic confinement configuration with stellarator symmetry constitutes a …