Physics
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Mar 2012
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American Physical Society, APS April Meeting 2012, March 31-Apr 3, 2012, abstract #S1.016
Physics
Scientific paper
The appearance of a (neoclassical) inward radial electric field in stellarators is known to cause, under certain plasma conditions, the accumulation of impurities in the core, and sometimes the subsequent plasma radiative collapse. Quantitatively neoclassical theory has barely covered the impurity transport due to the conventional neglect of the assumed first order electrostatic potential and density, φ1 and n1 respectively, in the drift kinetic ordering. This practice, which ignores the fulfilment of the quasi-neutrality condition, carries intrinsically the assumption Z|e|φ1/kBT1, with Z the atomic number, |e| the unit charge, kB the Boltzmann constant and T the temperature. This inequality, valid for the bulk plasma, is violated by high Z impurities. In this work the δf PIC Monte Carlo code EUTERPE [1] together with the GSRAKE code [2] are used to obtain the first numerical output of neoclassical impurity dynamics retaining φ1 and n1 in the drift kinetic equation. The case of the LHD stellarator is considered.[4pt] [1] V. Kornilov et al, Nucl. Fusion 45 238, 2005.[0pt] [2] D. Beidler and W. D. D'haeseleer, Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 37 463, 1995.
Beidler C. D.
García-Regaña J. M.
Helander Per
Kauffmann K.
Kleiber R.
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