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Fusion Science and Technology | Volume 18 | Number 3 | November 1990 | Pages 373-383
Alpha Particles in Fusion Research | Technical Paper | doi.org/10.13182/FST90-A29270
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Calculation of alpha-particle confinement by a guiding center orbit-following numerical code requires the computation of very long particle trajectories. Due to their enormous length, these computations are subject to the possible accumulation of small errors, and the alpha-particle population is usually extrapolated from a single-particle history for every point of the initial parameter space. To overcome these difficulties, a numerical diffusion coefficient is derived for each point of the initial parameter space by averaging over a certain number of single-particle histories for each point of this space. This method has been applied to fast-alpha-particle confinement of the Next European Torus benchmark and the numerically derived diffusion coefficients are compared with analytical expressions from theoretical models.