Gyrokinetic simulation of isotope effects in tokamak plasmas
- 1 January 1997
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Plasmas
- Vol. 4 (1) , 169-173
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.872128
Abstract
A three-dimensional (3-D) global gyrokinetic particle code in toroidal geometry has been used for investigating the transport properties of ion temperature gradient (ITG) drift instabilities in tokamak plasmas. Using the isotopes of hydrogen (H+), deuterium (D+) and tritium (T+), it is found that, under otherwise identical conditions, there exists a trend for favorable isotope scaling for the ion thermal diffusivity, i.e., χi decreases with mass. Such a trend, which exists both at the saturation of the instability and also at the fully nonlinear stage, can be understood from the resulting wave number and frequency spectra.Keywords
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