Kinetic Particle Simulation Study of Parallel Heat Transport in Scrape-off Layer Plasmas over a Wide Range of Collisionalities

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2010
DOI
  • 10.1585/pfr.5.026
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一般社団法人 プラズマ・核融合学会

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Fluid models are not generally applicable to fusion edge plasmas without external provision of kinetic factors: closure parameters and boundary conditions inside the sheath region. We explain the PARASOL-1D simulation, a particle-in-cell code with a binary collision Monte-Carlo model, and use it to determine four kinetic factors commonly needed in fluid codes. These are the electron and ion heat flux limiting factors, αe and αi, the ion adiabatic index, γA, and the electron and ion temperature anisotropy, T∥/T⊥. We survey these factors over a wide range of collisionalities and find that, as predicted, the conductive heat flux is accurately described by the Spitzer-Härm expression in the collisional limit and asymptotes to a constant value in the collisionless limit. However, unique behavior occurs in the weakly collisional regime when the ratio of the mean free path to connection length is 0.1 < λmfp/L∥< 10, when the SOL is between the conduction- and sheath-limited regimes. We find that αe can peak, becoming larger than the collisionless limit, γA is less than unity, and only the ions are anisotropic. The effects of electron energy radiation and Langevin heating are explored. Finally, the strong deviations of the energy distribution function from Maxwellian in the weakly collisional and collisionless regimes are explained.

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