RELAXATION HEATING OF A PLASMA BY SURFACE INTERACTION WITH A MAGNETIC FIELD T-3TN109-335 Third Technical Note of a Series of Three Technical Notes

摘要

The heating of a fully ionized deuterium plasma by collislonal relaxation for temperatures of the order of one kev is explored. The model used for the study consists of a long cylindrical plasma column confined and manipulated by an axial magnetic field that is induced by currents flowing in a one-turn coil surrounding the plasma. Condi¬tions are such that the field is excluded from the interior of the plasma: the interaction between plasma and field is essentially a surface phenomenon.