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Gates, D.A.; White, R.B.
Princeton Plasma Physics Lab., NJ (United States). Funding organisation: USDOE Office of Science (Seychelles) (US)2004
Princeton Plasma Physics Lab., NJ (United States). Funding organisation: USDOE Office of Science (Seychelles) (US)2004
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[en] Calculations of collisional thermal and particle diffusivities in toroidal magnetic plasma confinement devices order the toroidal gyroradius to be small relative to the poloidal gyroradius. This ordering is central to what is usually referred to as neoclassical transport theory. This ordering is incorrect at low aspect ratio, where it can often be the case that the toroidal gyroradius is larger than the poloidal gyroradius. We calculate the correction to the particle and thermal diffusivities at low aspect ratio by comparing the diffusivities as determined by a full orbit code (which we refer to as omni-classical diffusion) with those from a gyroaveraged orbit code (neoclassical diffusion). In typical low aspect ratio devices the omni-classical diffusion can be up to 2.5 times the calculated neoclassical value. We discuss the implications of this work on the analysis of collisional transport in low aspect ratio magnetic confinement experiments
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28 Jan 2004; 21 p; AC02-76CH03073; Also available from OSTI as DE00821516; PURL: https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/821516-KRQaiS/native/
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