Neoclassical nature of the radial electric field at the low-to-high confinement transition

T.P. Kiviniemi; S.K. Sipilä; V.A. Rozhansky; S.P. Voskoboynikov; E.G. Kaveeva; J.A. Heikkinen; D.P. Coster; R.  Schneider; X. Bonnin

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Neoclassical nature of the radial electric field at the low-to-high confinement transition

T.P. Kiviniemi^*, S.K. Sipilä, V.A. Rozhansky, S.P. Voskoboynikov, E.G. Kaveeva, J.A. Heikkinen, D.P. Coster, R. Schneider, X. Bonnin

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Abstract

The radial electric field E_rat the tokamak plasma edge is simulated both with a two-dimensional (2D) fluid code solving the most complete system of transport equations and with five-dimensional (three-dimensional in configuration space and 2D in velocity space) Monte Carlo particle following code. At low to high confinement transition conditions, the E^→r×B^→ shearing rate is found to be high enough for turbulence suppression even though the field is essentially neoclassical. Here, B^→ is the magnetic field. No bifurcation of E_r is found.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2604-2607
Journal	Physics of Plasmas
Volume	10
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1570827
Publication status	Published - 2003
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

Keywords

plasma
plasma toroidal confinement
plasma boundary layers
Monte Carlo method
Monte Carlo
plasma transport processes
plasma turbulence
electric fields

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