LOCAL SHEAR IN GENERAL MAGNETIC STELLARATOR GEOMETRY

被引:50
作者
WALTZ, RE
BOOZER, AH
机构
[1] COLL WILLIAM & MARY,WILLIAMSBURG,VA 23185
[2] MAX PLANCK INST PLASMA PHYS,W-8046 GARCHING,GERMANY
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PHYSICS OF FLUIDS B-PLASMA PHYSICS | 1993年 / 5卷 / 07期
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D O I
10.1063/1.860754
中图分类号
O35 [流体力学]; O53 [等离子体物理学];
学科分类号
070204 ; 080103 ; 080704 ;
摘要
A nonlinear ballooning mode formulation in general magnetic coordinates is developed for the cold ion electrostatic drift wave problem in stellarators. It is shown that local ripple shear, not global average shear, radially localizes microturbulent modes which are located along the field lines by local ripple curvature wells. It is argued that microturbulence in stellarators depends dominantly on local ripple shear and curvature and may be rather insensitive to global (or average) shear and curvature.
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页数:5
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