Neoclassical Diffusion in an Elliptical Torus
- 21 August 1972
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 29 (8) , 462-464
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.29.462
Abstract
Neoclassical transport theory is applied to a plasma in an axisymmetric toroidal magnetic field whose flux surfaces have elliptical cross sections. The contribution of the poloidal field component is important and leads to a large fraction of trapped particles.Keywords
This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Plasma Transport in Toroidal Confinement SystemsPhysics of Fluids, 1972
- Effect of Longitudinal Electric Field on Toroidal DiffusionPhysical Review Letters, 1970