JET-P(93)57
Monte-Carlo Operators for Orbit-Averaged Fokker-Planck Equations
Monte-Carlo operators for the orbit-averaged Fokker-Planck equation describing collisions and wave-particle interaction are constructed. Special emphasis is put on ion-cyclotron-resonance heating of tokamaks, but the results are applicable to general quasilinear processes in arbitrary magnetic configurations in which particle motion is integrable. All effects of non-standard orbit topology, such as large orbit widths are fully taken into account. The Monte-Carlo operators may be used for simulating, e.g., neoclassical transport, radio-frequency heating, and wave-driven spatial diffusion.