Gyrokinetic Simulations of Turbulent Transport in a Ring Dipole Plasma

被引：26

作者：

Kobayashi, Sumire ^{[1
]}

Rogers, Barrett N. ^{[1
]}

Dorland, William ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] Dartmouth Coll, Dept Phys & Astron, Hanover, NH 03755 USA

[2] Univ Maryland, Dept Phys, College Pk, MD 20742 USA

来源：

PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS | 2009年 / 103卷 / 05期

关键词：

STABILITY;

D O I：

10.1103/PhysRevLett.103.055003

中图分类号：

O4 [物理学];

学科分类号：

0702 ;

摘要：

Gyrokinetic flux-tube simulations of turbulent transport due to small-scale entropy modes are presented in a ring-dipole magnetic geometry relevant to the Columbia-MIT levitated dipole experiment (LDX) [J. Kesner et al., Plasma Phys. J. 23, 742 (1997)]. Far from the current ring, the dipolar magnetic field leads to strong parallel variations, while close to the ring the system becomes nearly uniform along circular magnetic field lines. The transport in these two limits are found to be quantitatively similar given an appropriate normalization based on the local out-board parameters. The transport increases strongly with the density gradient, and for small eta = L(n)/L(T) << 1, T(i) similar to T(e), and typical LDX parameters, can reach large levels. Consistent with linear theory, temperature gradients are stabilizing, and for T(i) similar to T(e) can completely cut off the transport when eta greater than or similar to 0.6.

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