Effect of neoclassical toroidal viscosity on error-field penetration thresholds in tokamak plasmas.
A model for field-error penetration is developed that includes nonresonant as well as the usual resonant field-error effects. The nonresonant components cause a neoclassical toroidal viscous torque that keeps the plasma rotating at a rate comparable to the ion diamagnetic frequency. The new theory is used to examine resonant error-field penetration threshold scaling in Ohmic tokamak plasmas. Compared to previous theoretical results, we find the plasma is less susceptible to error-field penetration and locking, by a factor that depends on the nonresonant error-field amplitude.
Cole
A J
AJ
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706-1609, USA.
Hegna
C C
CC
Callen
J D
JD