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Radial transport of toroidal angular momentum in tokamaks

Plasma Physics 2017-03-13 v2

Abstract

The radial flux of toroidal angular momentum is needed to determine tokamak intrinsic rotation profiles. Its computation requires knowledge of the gyrokinetic distribution functions and turbulent electrostatic potential to second-order in ϵ=ρ/L\epsilon = \rho/L, where ρ\rho is the ion Larmor radius and LL is the variation length of the magnetic field. In this article, a complete set of equations to calculate the radial transport of toroidal angular momentum in any tokamak is presented. In particular, the O(ϵ2)O(\epsilon^2) equations for the turbulent components of the distribution functions and electrostatic potential are given for the first time without assuming that the poloidal magnetic field over the magnetic field strength is small.

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@article{arxiv.1412.0959,
  title  = {Radial transport of toroidal angular momentum in tokamaks},
  author = {Ivan Calvo and Felix I. Parra},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1412.0959},
  year   = {2017}
}

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39 pages. Version to be published in Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion