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Author: Edward A Tocco
Requested Type: Poster
Submitted: 2025-03-14 12:17:58
Co-authors: I.G.Abel
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University of Maryland
2112 GLM Wind Tunnel Bldg
College Park , MD 20742
United States
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Rapidly rotating magnetic mirrors have a number of characteristics that make them compelling for use as nuclear fusion reactors. To study the steady state characteristics of these devices, a transport model was created and implemented in the Maryland Nonlinear Transport Analyzer (MaNTA), a code for solving nonlinear reaction-diffusion equations. We present the code and its utility in solving the transport equations for a rotating magnetic mirror. The transport equations (Abel et. al) describe the long timescale evolution of the plasma parameters on each magnetic flux surface. Accurate solutions of these equations are critical for research into rotating mirrors, enabling, among other things, quantification of performance, analysis of wall and material loading, and interpretation of diagnostics. Cross-field transport, dominated by turbulence in other fusion concepts, is assumed to be primarily classical due to the extreme shearing rates inherent to rotating mirrors. The transport equations used to evolve the profiles, the source terms used to include relevant physics, and the results thus far are discussed.
Abel, I G, Plunk, G G, Wang, E, Barnes, M, Cowley, S C, Dorland, W & Schekochihin, A A 2013 Multiscale gyrokinetics for rotating tokamak plasmas: fluctuations, transport and energy flows. Reports on Progress in Physics 76 (11), 116201.
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