Plateau regime dynamics of the relaxation of poloidal rotation in tokamak plasmas

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В. Б. Лебедев · University of California, San Diego

P. N. Yushmanov · University of California, San Diego

P. H. Diamond · University of California, San Diego

S.V. Novakovskii · University of Maryland, College Park

A. I. Smolyakov · University of Saskatchewan

Abstract

A theory of the relaxation dynamics of the radial electric field toward its neoclassical value in the regime of subsonic poloidal rotation is presented. It is shown that the relaxation occurs via damped oscillations on time scales proportional to the ion transit time.

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Magnetic confinement fusion research Ionosphere and magnetosphere dynamics Laser-Plasma Interactions and Diagnostics

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Published in: Physics of Plasmas

Volume 3, Issue 8, pp. 3023-3031

DOI: 10.1063/1.871638

Field-Weighted Citation Impact: 1.68

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Plateau regime dynamics of the relaxation of poloidal rotation in tokamak plasmas

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