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Alfvén-wave dissipation and current in strongly elongated tokamaks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 1998

V. S. TSYPIN
Affiliation:
Institute of Physics, State University of Rio de Janeiro, 20550-013, Maracaña, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
A. G. ELFIMOV
Affiliation:
Physics Institute, University of São Paulo, Cx. Postal 20516 São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
C. A. de AZEVEDO
Affiliation:
Institute of Physics, State University of Rio de Janeiro, 20550-013, Maracaña, Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
A. S. de ASSIS
Affiliation:
Institute of Mathematics–Group of Applied Mathematics, Fluminense Federal University, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Abstract

The general approach to Alfvén-wave current drive and induced plasma rotation in tokamaks with strongly elongated transverse cross-sections is considered. Model approximations are used to describe the circulating- and trapped-particle dynamics in all particle-trapping regions. This approach gives an accuracy of some percent. New terms, connected with the wave dissipation on trapped particles in the second and third trapped-particle regions for elongated tokamaks, are taken into account. The plasma rotation and longitudinal current, depending on the absorbed power of kinetic Alfvén waves, are discussed.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
1998 Cambridge University Press

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