Drift-magnetohydrodynamical model of error-field penetration in tokamak plasmas

Drift-MHD model of error-field penetration in tokamak plasmas

Effect of neoclassical toroidal viscosity on error-field penetration thresholds in tokamak plasmas.

A model for field-error penetration is developed that includes nonresonant as well as the usual resonant field-error effects. The nonresonant components cause a neoclassical toroidal viscous torque that keeps the plasma rotating at a rate comparable to the ion diamagnetic frequency. The new theory is used to examine resonant error-field penetration threshold scaling in Ohmic tokamak plasmas. Co...

Scaling of Ohmic Tokamak Error-field Penetration Thresholds in the Presence of Neoclassical Toroidal Viscosity

A model for field error penetration is developed that includes non-resonant as well as the usual resonant field error effects. The non-resonant components cause a neoclassical toroidal viscous torque that tries to keep the plasma rotating at a rate comparable to the ion diamagnetic frequency. The new theory is used to examine resonant error-field penetration threshold scaling in ohmic tokamak p...

Neoclassical toroidal viscosity and error-field penetration in tokamaks

A model for field error penetration is developed that includes non-resonant as well as the usual resonant field error effects. The non-resonant components cause a neoclassical toroidal viscous torque that tries to keep the plasma rotating at a rate comparable to the ion diamagnetic frequency. The new theory is used to examine resonant error-field penetration threshold scaling in ohmic tokamak p...

Effect of flow damping on drift-tearing magnetic islands in tokamak plasmas

A systematic fluid theory of nonlinear drift-tearing magnetic island dynamics in a conventional large aspect-ratio lowcircular cross-section tokamak plasma is derived from a set of single-helicity reduced neoclassical-magnetohydrodynamical equations which incorporate electron and ion diamagnetic flows, ion gyroviscosity, poloidal and toroidal flow damping, cross flux-surface momentum and partic...