Plasma and Fusion Research

Volume 3, S1072 (2008)

Regular Articles

Flute Mode Turbulence and Related Transport in the Divertor of a Mirror
Isao KATANUMA, Hiroshi SAIMARU, Yoshinari MIZOGUCHI, Katsuya YASHIRO and Vladimir P. PASTUKHOV1)
Plasma Research Center, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba 305-8577, Japan
1)
RRC Kurchatov Institute, Kurchatov Square, 1, 123182 Moscow, Russia
(Received 23 October 2007 / Accepted 21 January 2008 / Published 20 August 2008)

Abstract

A computer code, which was written to investigate flute modes and related transport, can be applied to a magnetic shearless confinement system as well as a tandem mirror. Computer simulation conducted in a modeled magnetic divertor with initial rigid plasma rotation shows that flute modes enhance radial transport during its growing phase, and shear (zonal) flows appear in the final stage.

Keywords

divertor, flute, interchange, simulation, mirror

DOI: 10.1585/pfr.3.S1072

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This paper may be cited as follows:

Isao KATANUMA, Hiroshi SAIMARU, Yoshinari MIZOGUCHI, Katsuya YASHIRO and Vladimir P. PASTUKHOV, Plasma Fusion Res. 3, S1072 (2008).