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Analytic regimes of tokamak plasma

Plasma Physics 2022-12-14 v1 Fluid Dynamics

Abstract

The paper suggests certain regimes of fusion plasma with magnetic confinement, when the Larmor radius λ\lambda and the angle α\alpha (determining the orientation of the local coordinates) form an analytic function w=λeiαw=\lambda e^{i\alpha} of complex variable z=x1+ix2z=x_1+i x_2 (x1x_1 and x2x_2 are coordinates of tokamak cross-section). It is known that an efficient nuclear fusion requires transport barriers, which might be due to zonal/poloidal flow; and the emergence of such flow is implied by the adiabatic extra conservation (established in a local slub). The suggested analytic regimes are based on the global extension of this extra conservation; transport barriers could spread to the entire tokamak plasma. It is interesting that in these regimes, plasma temperature reaches maximum often not at a single location (of tokamak cross-section), but at several points separated by regions of lower temperature.

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@article{arxiv.2212.06318,
  title  = {Analytic regimes of tokamak plasma},
  author = {Alexander M. Balk},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.06318},
  year   = {2022}
}

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3 pages, 3 figures