ISOTOPE SCALING IN THE DRIFT WAVE MODEL

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作者
DOMINGUEZ, RR
机构
[1] General Atomics, San Diego, CA
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10.1088/0029-5515/31/11/003
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O35 [流体力学]; O53 [等离子体物理学];
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070204 ; 080103 ; 080704 ;
摘要
Impurity ion dynamics are incorporated into a numerical stability analysis of electrostatic drift waves in a sheared slab model. Using a simple i-delta model for the electron branch. it is shown that a significant increase in growth rate, proportional to the primary ion mass at moderate Z(eff), results for T(e) much greater than T(i). For the ion branch, the ion temperature gradient (ITG) mode, it is found that in hydrogen and deuterium plasmas the growth rates are inversely proportional to the primary ion mass when Z(eff) < 2; for Z(eff) greater-than-or-equal-to 2, the ITG mode is generally stable. Using quasi-linear theory. it is also shown that for ITG mode turbulence in hydrogen and deuterium plasmas in the low Z(eff) range (typical of high density Ohmic plasmas) the energy confinement time scaling with atomic mass number A of the primary ion species is tau-E is proportional to A-beta, with beta congruent-to 0.6. Conversely, the present analysis indicates that confinement in helium plasmas is similar to that obtained for hydrogen. It is suggested that a similar result obtains for electron drift wave turbulence in low density Ohmic plasmas where T(e) much greater than T(i) when Z(eff) much greater than 1.
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页码:2063 / 2071
页数:9
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