Abstract
We present a quasi-linear treatment of the drift-kinetic equation in the presence of a stochastic magnetic field, which provides a self-contained description of particle, parallel momentum and heat transport. Explicit analytical expressions, which satisfy the Onsager reciprocal relations, are obtained by approximating the distribution function by a local shifted Maxwellian. This theory completes previous formulations (Harvey et al., Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 47, 1981, p. 102) by including the momentum transport and by generalizing the derivation from the cylindrical tokamak configuration to an arbitrary cylindrical pinch. Application to the reversed field pinch provides satisfactory results.
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Cambridge University Press (CUP)
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