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Bootstrap current and parallel ion velocity in imperfectly optimized stellarators

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2020

Peter J. Catto Open the ORCID record for Peter J. Catto [Opens in a new window]  and
Per Helander Open the ORCID record for Per Helander [Opens in a new window]
Peter J. Catto*
Affiliation:
Plasma Science and Fusion Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
Per Helander
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik, 17491 Greifswald, Germany
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†Email address for correspondence: catto@psfc.mit.edu
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Abstract

A novel derivation of the parallel ion velocity, and the bootstrap and Pfirsch–Schlüter currents in an imperfectly optimized (that is, almost omnigenous) stellarator magnetic field, $\boldsymbol{B}$, is presented that somewhat more generally recovers expressions completely consistent with previous analytic results. However, it is also shown that, when the conventional radially local form of the drift kinetic equation is employed, the flow velocity and the bootstrap current acquire a spurious contribution proportional to $\unicode[STIX]{x1D714}/\unicode[STIX]{x1D708}$, where $\unicode[STIX]{x1D714}$ denotes the $\boldsymbol{E}\times \boldsymbol{B}$ rotation frequency (due to the radial electric field $\boldsymbol{E}$) and $\unicode[STIX]{x1D708}$ the collision frequency. This contribution is particularly large in the $\sqrt{\unicode[STIX]{x1D708}}$ regime and at smaller collisionalities, where $\unicode[STIX]{x1D714}/\unicode[STIX]{x1D708}\gtrsim 1$, and is presumably present in most numerical calculations, but it disappears if a more accurate drift kinetic equation is used.

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fusion plasmaplasma confinementplasma flows

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Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 86 , Issue 1 , February 2020 , 905860105
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