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Plasma and Fusion Research

Volume 8, 1203011 (2013)

Rapid Communications

Particle-Tracking Calculation of Classical Transport in High-Beta Field-Reversed Configuration Plasma
Akinori HASHIMOTO, Takayuki WATANABE and Toshiki TAKAHASHI
Department of Electronic Engineering, Gunma University, 1-5-1 Tenjin-Cho, Gunma 376-8515, Japan
(Received 27 November 2012 / Accepted 21 January 2013 / Published 25 February 2013)

Abstract

In this paper, classical particle transport processes in field-reversed configuration plasma is investigated by particle-tracking calculations. The end-loss rate is found to increase with ion temperature, and the temperature dependence is much stronger than that of the Bohm scaling and the empirical scaling.

Keywords

field-reversed configuration, classical particle transport, particle-tracking calculation

DOI: 10.1585/pfr.8.1203011

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This paper may be cited as follows:

Akinori HASHIMOTO, Takayuki WATANABE and Toshiki TAKAHASHI, Plasma Fusion Res. 8, 1203011 (2013).