Journal article
On the Drag Effect of a Refuelling Pellet
Microbial Engineering, Biosystems Division, Risø National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy, Technical University of Denmark1
Biosystems Division, Risø National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy, Technical University of Denmark2
Risø National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy, Technical University of Denmark3
Plasma Physics and Technology Programme, Risø National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy, Technical University of Denmark4
A refueling pellet is subjected mainly to two kinds of drags: (1) inertial drag caused by the motion of the pellet relative to the surrounding plasma, and (2) ablation drag caused by an uneven ablation rate of the front and the rear surface of the pellet in an inhomogeneous plasma. Computational results showed that for reasonable combinations of pellet size and injection speed, the drag effect is hardly detectable for plasma conditions prevailing in current large tokamaks.
Language: | English |
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Publisher: | Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers |
Year: | 1981 |
Pages: | 253-257 |
ISSN: | 15729591 and 01640313 |
Types: | Journal article |
DOI: | 10.1007/BF01050358 |
ORCIDs: | Michelsen, Poul |