Contained Modes In Mirrors With Sheared Rotation

Abraham J. Fetterman and Nathaniel J. Fisch

关键词: CYCLOTRON FREQUENCY;    MIRRORS;    PLASMA WAVES;    ROTATION;    WAVE PROPAGATION;    DISTURBANCES;    FREQUENCY DEPENDENCE Alfven Waves;    Wave Excitation;    Rotating Plasmas;   

DOI  :  10.2172/990751
RP-ID  :  PPPL-4569
PID  :  OSTI ID: 990751
Others  :  TRN: US1007882

学科分类：原子、分子光学和等离子物理

美国|英语

来源: SciTech Connect

【 摘 要 】

In mirrors with E ?? B rotation, a fixed azimuthal perturbation in the lab frame can appear as a wave in the rotating frame. If the rotation frequency varies with radius, the plasma-frame wave frequency will also vary radially due to the Doppler shift. A wave that propagates in the high rotation plasma region might therefore be evanescent at the plasma edge. This can lead to radially localized Alfven eigenmodes with high azimuthal mode numbers. Contained Alfven modes are found both for peaked and non-peaked rotation profiles. These modes might be useful for alpha channeling or ion heating, as the high azimuthal wave number allows the plasma wave frequency in the rotating frame to exceed the ion cyclotron frequency. __________________________________________________