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Impurities cause radiation losses and plasma dilution, and in stellarator plasmas the neoclassical ambipolar radial electric field is often unfavorable for avoiding strong impurity peaking. In this work we use a new continuum drift-kinetic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-11-23 Albert Mollén , Matt Landreman , Håkan M. Smith , Stefanie Braun , Per Helander

We present a numerical study of collisional transport in a tokamak pedestal in the presence of non-trace impurities, using the radially global $\delta f$ neoclassical solver PERFECT [M. Landreman et al. 2014 Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 56…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 I. Pusztai , S. Buller , M. Landreman

Carbon and nitrogen impurity transport coefficients are determined from gas puff experiments carried out during repeat L-mode discharges on the Mega-Amp Spherical Tokamak (MAST) and compared against a previous analysis of helium impurity…

In an inhomogeneous magnetised plasma the transport of energy and particles perpendicular to the magnetic field is in general mainly caused by quasi two-dimensional turbulent fluid mixing. The physics of turbulence and structure formation…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2010-03-05 Alexander Kendl

It is shown that the transport in low temperature, collisional, bounded plasma is enhanced by instabilities at high magnetic field. While the magnetic field confines the electrons in a stable plasma, the instability completely destroys the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 R. Lucken , A. Bourdon , M. Lieberman , P. Chabert

Numerical and analytic results have been used to characterize quantum transport in spin chains, showing the existence of both ballistic and diffusive motion. Experiments have shown that heat transfer is surprisingly always diffusive. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-07 Amartya Bose

The basic character of diffusive transport in a magnetised plasma depends on what kind of transport is modelled. ExB turbulence under drift ordering has special characteristics: it is nearly incompressible, and it cannot lead to magnetic…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Bruce D. Scott

In this paper, the turbulent transport properties of ST40 hot ion plasmas are examined and fully predictive time evolving modelling of a hot ion plasma pulse was performed. Understanding turbulent transport on spherical tokamaks (STs) is…

We consider a two-dimensional complex plasma layer containing charged dust particles in a perpendicular magnetic field. Computer simulations of both one-component and binary systems are used to explore the equilibrium particle dynamics in…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2014-03-03 T. Ott , H. Löwen , M. Bonitz

The turbulent transport of main ion and trace impurities in a tokamak device in the presence of steep electron density gradients has been studied. The parameters are chosen for trapped electron (TE) mode turbulence, driven primarily by…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Andreas Skyman , Hans Nordman , P. I. Strand

When a cylindrically-symmetric magnetized plasma compresses or expands, velocity-space anisotropy is naturally generated as a result of the different adiabatic conservation laws parallel and perpendicular to the magnetic field. When the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2023-05-18 Ian E. Ochs , Nathaniel J. Fisch

We study the impact of impurities on turbulence driven intrinsic rotation (via residual stress) in the context of the quasi-linear theory. A two-fluid formulation for main and impurity ions is employed to study ion temperature gradient…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2015-09-02 S. H. Ko , Hogun Jhang , R. Singh

In steady state, the fuel cycle of a fusion plasma requires inward particle fluxes of fuel ions. These particle flows are also accompanied by heating. In the case of classical transport in a rotating cylindrical plasma, this heating can…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-07-19 E. J. Kolmes , I. E. Ochs , M. E. Mlodik , N. J. Fisch

Conventional neoclassical theory in the Pfirsch-Schl\"{u}ter regime fails to accurately model collision-induced transport in toroidal plasmas with high density gradients. In this scenario, we find that collision suppresses the return flow,…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2024-01-18 Jianyuan Xiao , Huishan Cai , Jian Liu , Zhi Yu , Yifeng Zheng

A large diffusive turbulent contribution to the radial impurity transport in Wendelstein 7-X (W7-X) plasmas has been experimentally inferred during the first campaigns and numerically confirmed by means of gyrokinetic simulations with the…

The turbulence-induced quasi-linear particle flux of a highly-charged, collisional impurity species is calculated from the electrostatic gyrokinetic equation including collisions with the bulk ions and the impurities themselves. The…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2020-06-25 Stefan Buller , Per Helander

We investigate the dynamics of mixed-species ion crystals during transport between spatially distinct locations in a linear Paul trap in the diabatic regime. In a general mixed-species crystal, all degrees of freedom along the direction of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-03 M. Palmero , R. Bowler , J. P. Gaebler , D. Leibfried , J. G. Muga

In modern inertial fusion experiments there is a complex interplay between non-locality and magnetisation that can greatly influence transport. In this work we use a matrix recursion method to include higher-order corrections beyond the…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2021-01-12 H. C. Watkins , R. J. Kingham

Progress in the theory of anomalous diffusion in weakly turbulent cold magnetized plasmas is explained. Several proposed models advanced in the literature are discussed. Emphasis is put on a new proposed mechanism for anomalous diffusion…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2009-01-26 Mario J. Pinheiro

Magnetic fields play a role in the dynamics of many astrophysical processes, but they are hard to detect. In a partially ionized plasma, a magnetic field works directly on the ionized medium but not on the neutral medium, which gives rise…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-24 Boy Lankhaar , Wouter Vlemmings