IAEA Fusion Energy Conference 2010

Proceedings of the 23rd IAEA Fusion Energy Conference
Daejeon, 11-16 October 2010

Organized by the International Atomic Energy Agency
and hosted by the Government of the Republic of Korea

IAEA-CN-180

(OV/5-4) Toroidal Momentum Transport

A.G. Peeters1), C. Angioni2), A. Bortolon3), Y. Camenen4), F.J. Casson4), B. Duval3), L. Fiederspiel3), W.A. Hornsby4), Y. Idomura5), N. Kluy2), P. Mantica6), F.I. Parra7), A.P. Snodin4), G. Szepesi4), D. Strintzi8), T. Tala9), G. Tardini2), P. de Vries10), J. Weiland11)
 
1 University of Bayreuth, 95440 Bayreuth, Germany
2 Max Planck Institut (IPP) Euratom assoc., Boltzmannstrasse 2 85748 Garching, Germany
3 CRPP-EPFL, Euratom associated, CH-1015 Switzerland
4 University of Warwick, CV7 4AL Coventry, United Kingdom
5 Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Tokyo 110-0015, Japan
6 Istituto di Fisica del Plasma 'P.Caldirola', Associazione Euratom-ENEA-CNR, Milano, Italy
7 Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3NP, UK
8 National Technical University of Athens, (Euratom associated), GR-15773 Athens, Greece
9 Association EURATOM-Tekes, VTT, P.O. Box 1000, FIN-02044 VTT, Finland
10 FOM Institute Rijnhuizen, Association EURATOM-FOM, Nieuwegein, the Netherlands
11 Chalmers University of Technology and Euratom-VR Association, Göteborg Sweden

Abstract.  Toroidal momentum transport mechanisms are reviewed and put in a broader perspective. The generation of a finite momentum flux is closely related with the breaking of symmetry along the field. The symmetry argument allows for the systematic identification of possible transport mechanisms. Those that appear to lowest order in the normalized Larmor radius (the diagonal part, Coriolis pinch, E×B shearing, particle flux, and up-down asymmetric equilibriums) are reasonably well understood. At higher order, thought to be of importance in the plasma edge, the theory is still under development.

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