The residual flow in well-optimized stellarators
arXiv:2310.14218 · doi:10.1017/S002237782400031X
Abstract
The gyrokinetic theory of the residual flow, in the electrostatic limit, is revisited, with optimized stellarators in mind. We consider general initial conditions for the problem, and identify cases that lead to a non-zonal residual electrostatic potential, i.e. one having a significant component that varies within a flux surface. We investigate the behavior of the ``intermediate residual'' in stellarators, a measure of the flow that remains after geodesic acoustic modes have damped away, but before the action of the slower damping that is caused by unconfined particle orbits. The case of a quasi-isodynamic stellarator is identified as having a particularly large such residual, owing to the small orbit width achieved by optimization.
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