Transport Scaling in the Collisionless-Detrapping Regime in Stellarators

摘要

Stellarator transport scalings with electric field, geometry, and collision frequency in the reactor-relevant collisionless-detrapping regime are determined from numerical solutions of the drift kinetic equation. A new geometrical scaling, proportional to epsilon/sub t/sup 3/2/ rather than epsilon/sub t/epsilon/sub h/sup 1/2/, is found, where epsilon/sub t/ is the inverse aspect ratio and epsilon/sub h/ is the helical ripple. With the new scaling, no reduction in energy confinement time is associated with large helical ripple, which provides design flexibility. Integral expressions for the particle and heat fluxes that are useful for transport simulations are given. 11 refs. (ERA citation 13:005240)