Abstract
Neoclassical toroidal viscosities (NTVs) in tokamaks are investigated using a δf MonteCarlo simulation, and are successfully verified with a combined analytic theory over a wide range of collisionality. A MonteCarlo simulation has been required in the study of NTV since the complexities in guiding-center orbits of particles and their collisions cannot be fully investigated by any means of analytic theories alone. Results yielded the details of the complex NTV dependency on particle precessions and collisions, which were predicted roughly in a combined analytic theory. Both numerical and analytic methods can be utilized and extended based on these successful verifications.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Article number | 055001 |
| Journal | Physical review letters |
| Volume | 107 |
| Issue number | 5 |
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| State | Published - Jul 25 2011 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- General Physics and Astronomy