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Author(s):
N. Nakajima and M. Okamoto
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Title:
Effects of Fast Ions and an External Inductive Electric Field on the Neoclassical Parallel Flow, Current, and Rotation in General Toroidal Systems
Date of publication:
May 1992
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Key words:
neoclassical theory, non-axisymmetric system, fast ions, external inductive field, parallel flow, neoclassical current, plateau collisionality regime, Pfirsh-Schluter collisionality regime
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Abstract:
Effects of external momentum sources, i.e., fast ions produced by the neutral beam injectron and an external inductive electric field, on the neoclassical ion parallel flow, current and rotation are analytically investigated for a simple plasma in general toroidal systems. It is shown that the contribution of the external sources to the ion parallel flow becomes large as the collision frequency of thermal ions increases because of the momentum conservation of Coulomb collisions and sharply decreasing viscosity coefficients with collision frequency. As a result, the beam-driven parallel flow of thermal ions becomes comparable to that of electrons in the Pfirsh-Schluter collisionality regime, whereas in the 1/nu or banana regime it is smaller than that of electrons by the order of sqrt{m_e/m_i}, ( m_e and m_i are electron and ion masses ). This beam-driven ion parallel flow can not produce a large beam-driven current because of the cancellation with electron parallel flow, but produces a large toroidal rotation of ions. As both electrons and ions approach the Pfirsh-Schluter collisionality regime the contribution of thermodynamical forces becomes negligibly small and the large toroidal rotation of ions is predominated by the beam-driven component in the non-axisymmetric configuration with large helical ripples.
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