Plasma transport coefficients for nonsymmetric toroidal confinement systems

DOI10.1063/1.865495zbMath0601.76053MaRDI QIDQ3737047

Ker-Chung Shaing, E. C. Jun. Crume, W. I. van Rif, C. O. Jun. Beasley, Steven P. Hirshman

Publication date: 1986

Published in: The Physics of Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.865495

zbMATH Keywords

variational principle; Monte Carlo methods; Legendre polynomial expansion; collision frequency; Numerical solutions; thermodynamic fluxes; linearized drift Fokker-Planck equation; local plasma transport coefficients; nonsymmetric toroidal confinement configurations; pitch angle coordinate; stellarator configuration; transition particle orbits; velocity-space distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

82C70: Transport processes in time-dependent statistical mechanics

82D10: Statistical mechanics of plasmas

76E25: Stability and instability of magnetohydrodynamic and electrohydrodynamic flows

76X05: Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow

76M99: Basic methods in fluid mechanics

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