ROTATION & MOMENTUM TRANSPORT

IN TOKAMAK PLASMAS

Fusion Research Center

 

Angular momentum transport and plasma rotation in response to injected neutral beam torque is a subject both of intrinsic interest and practical consequence (stabilization of MHD instabilities, effect on the H-mode edge pedestal, etc.) in tokamak physics.  Faculty and students in the FRC and collaborators have developed the gyroviscous neoclassical theory for angular momentum transfer and applied it to predict rotation and momentum confinement measured in a number of experiments.

 

 

  1. W. M. Stacey, A. W. Bailey, D. J. Sigmar and K.C. Shaing, “Rotation and Impurity Transport in a Tokamak Plasma with Directed Neutral Beam Injection”, Nucl. Fusion 25, 463 (1985).
     

  2. W. M. Stacey and D. J. Sigmar, “Viscous effects in a collisional tokamak plasma with strong rotation”, Phys. Fluids 28, 2800 (1985).
     

  3. W. M. Stacey, “Interpretation of Measurements of the Global Momentum and Energy Confinement Time in Strongly Rotating Plasmas”, Nucl. Fusion 31, 31 (1991).
     

  4. W. M. Stacey, “Poloidal rotation and density asymmetries in a tokamak plasma with strong toroidal rotation”, Phys. Fluids B 4, 3302 (1992).
     

  5. W. M. Stacey and D. R. Jackson, “Poloidal rotation, density asymmetries and momentum confinement in tokamak experiments”, Phys. Fluids B 5, 1828 (1993).
     

  6. W. M. Stacey, “Neoclassical theory for rotation and impurity transport in tokamaks with neutral beam injection”, Phys. Plasmas 8, 158 (2001).
     

  7. W. M. Stacey and M. Murakami, “Momentum confinement in DIII-D shots with impurities”, Phys. Plasmas 8, 4450 (2001).
     

  8. W. M. Stacey and J. Mandrekas, “Comparison of neoclassical rotation theory with experiment under a variety of conditions in DIII-D”, Phys. Plasmas 9, 1622 (2002).
     

  9. W. M. Stacey, “Neoclassical calculation of poloidal rotation and poloidal density asymmetries in tokamaks”, Phys. Plasmas 9, 3874 (2002).
     

  10. W. M. Stacey, “A Neoclassical Model for Toroidal Rotation and the Radial Electric Field in the Edge Pedestal”, Phys. Plasmas 11, 3096 (2004).
     

  11. W. M. Stacey, R. W. Johnson and J. Mandrekas, “A neoclassical calculation of rotation profiles in DIII-D”, Phys. Plasmas 13, 062508 (2006).
     

  12. W. M. Stacey, “Rotation velocities and the radial electric field in the plasma edge”, Contrib. Plasma Phys. 46, 597 (2006).
     

  13. W. M. Stacey, “Extension and comparison of neoclassical models for poloidal rotation in tokamaks”, Phys. Plasmas 15, 012501 (2008). (PoP abstract)
     

  14. W. M. Stacey and R.J. Groebner, “Interpretation of edge pedestal rotation measurements in DIII-D”, Phys. Plasmas 15, 012503 (2008). (PoP abstract)
     

  15. W. M. Stacey, “Ion Particle Transport in the Tokamak Edge Plasmas”, Contrib. Plasma Phys. 48, Number 1-3, 94-98 (2008).
     

  16. W. M. Stacey, “Applications of the Miller Equilibrium to Extend Tokamak Computational Models”, Phys. Plasmas 15, 122505 (2008).
     

  17. W. M. Stacey, “Rotation velocities in the plasma edge driven viscously by scrape-off layer flows”, Phys. Plasmas 16. 062505 (2009).
     

  18. W. M. Stacey and Cheonho Bae, “Representation of the plasma fluid equations in "Miller Equilibrium" analytical flux surface geometry”, Phys. Plasmas 16, 082501 (2009).
     

  19. C. Bae and W. M. Stacey, “Neoclassical Rotation Theory for Toroidal and Poloidal Rotation Velocities Using Miller Equilibrium Analytical Flux Surface Geometry”, APS-DPP Mtg., Chicago, 2010 (TO BE POSTED).