Plasma transport coefficients for nonsymmetric toroidal confinement systems

DOI10.1063/1.865495zbMath0601.76053OpenAlexW1991165957MaRDI QIDQ3737047

Ker-Chung Shaing, E. C. Jun. Crume, W. I. van Rif, C. O. Jun. Beasley, Steven P. Hirshman

Publication date: 1986

Published in: The Physics of Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.865495

zbMATH Keywords

variational principleMonte Carlo methodsLegendre polynomial expansioncollision frequencyNumerical solutionsthermodynamic fluxeslinearized drift Fokker-Planck equationlocal plasma transport coefficientsnonsymmetric toroidal confinement configurationspitch angle coordinatestellarator configurationtransition particle orbitsvelocity-space distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Transport processes in time-dependent statistical mechanics (82C70) Statistical mechanics of plasmas (82D10) Stability and instability of magnetohydrodynamic and electrohydrodynamic flows (76E25) Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow (76X05) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99)

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Cites Work

• Methods of conjugate gradients for solving linear systems

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