Effect of neoclassical toroidal viscosity on error-field penetration thresholds in tokamak plasmas.
Phys Rev Lett
; 99(6): 065001, 2007 Aug 10.
Article
em En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-17930835
ABSTRACT
A model for field-error penetration is developed that includes nonresonant as well as the usual resonant field-error effects. The nonresonant components cause a neoclassical toroidal viscous torque that keeps the plasma rotating at a rate comparable to the ion diamagnetic frequency. The new theory is used to examine resonant error-field penetration threshold scaling in Ohmic tokamak plasmas. Compared to previous theoretical results, we find the plasma is less susceptible to error-field penetration and locking, by a factor that depends on the nonresonant error-field amplitude.
Buscar no Google
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2007
Tipo de documento:
Article