Implementation of the Reduced Charge State Method of Calculating Impurity Transport

摘要

A recent review article by Hirshman and Sigmar includes expressions needed to calculate the parallel friction coefficients, the essential ingredients of the plateau-Pfirsch-Schluter transport coefficients, using the method of reduced charge states. These expressions have been collected and an expanded notation introduced in some cases to facilitate differentiation between reduced charge state and full charge state quantities. A form of the Coulomb logarithm relevant to the method of reduced charge states is introduced. This method of calculating the f/sub ij//sup ab/ has been implemented in the impurity transport simulation code IMPTAR and has resulted in an overall reduction in computation time of approximately 25% for a typical simulation of impurity transport in the Impurity Study Experiment (ISX-B). Results obtained using this treatment are almost identical to those obtained using an earlier approximate theory of Hirshman. (ERA citation 07:052313)