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Low-frequency heating and induced particle transport in an inhomogeneous plasma with Ohmic current

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

D. W. Faulconer
D. W. Faulconer
Affiliation:
Plasma Physics Laboratory, Association ‘Euratom-Belgian State’, Ecole Royale Militaire/Koninklijke Militaire School, 1040 Brussels
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Abstract

Particle and energy conservation relations appropriate to drift and MHD ordering are derived and simplified in the MHD case by exploiting an invariant of guiding-centre motion existing when E. B = 0. An MHD perturbation calculation is made of the local average density and energy rates of change induced by a wave of general transverse-electric type in an inhomogeneous plasma. The resulting expressions, which incorporate the effect of equilibrium electric field on zeroth-order trajectories, are of striking simplicity. In the drift-ordered limit their divergence from other drift results is discussed; particle pump-out in the given heating fields is seen to be much smaller than found previously.

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Research Article
Information
Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , April 1981 , pp. 267 - 284
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1981

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