Stellarator bootstrap current and plasma flow velocity at low collisionality
Journal article, 2017

The bootstrap current and flow velocity of a low-collisionality stellarator plasma are calculated. As far as possible, the analysis is carried out in a uniform way across all low-collisionality regimes in general stellarator geometry, assuming only that the confinement is good enough that the plasma is approximately in local thermodynamic equilibrium. It is found that conventional expressions for the ion flow speed and bootstrap current in the low-collisionality limit are accurate only in the 1/nu -collisionality regime and need to be modified in the root-nu-regime. The correction due to finite collisionality is also discussed and is found to scale as nu^2/5

fusion plasma

plasma confinement

plasma flows

Author

Felix Parra

Sarah Newton

Chalmers, Physics, Subatomic and Plasma Physics

Journal of Plasma Physics

0022-3778 (ISSN) 1469-7807 (eISSN)

Vol. 83 2 905830206

Subject Categories

Fusion, Plasma and Space Physics

DOI

10.1017/S0022377817000253

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