Bootstrap current and parallel viscosity in the low collisionality regime in toroidal plasmas

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K. C. Shaing · Oak Ridge National Laboratory

E.C. Crume · Oak Ridge National Laboratory

J. S. Tolliver · Oak Ridge National Laboratory

S. P. Hirshman · Oak Ridge National Laboratory

W. I. van Rij · Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Abstract

Bootstrap currents in the low collisionality regime in nonaxisymmetric toroidal plasmas are calculated analytically using a model drift kinetic equation. The results obtained using the analytic expression are compared with those calculated from the numerical solutions of the drift kinetic equation. Qualitatively and quantitively, the results are in reasonable agreement.

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Published in: Physics of Fluids B Plasma Physics

Volume 1, Issue 1, pp. 148-152

DOI: 10.1063/1.859093

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Bootstrap current and parallel viscosity in the low collisionality regime in toroidal plasmas

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