Zonal and poloidal

Zonal and poloidal

In magnetic confinement fusion the zonal direction primarily connotes the poloidal direction (i.e. the short way around the torus), the corresponding coordinate being denoted by "y" in the slab approximation or "θ" in magnetic coordinates. However, in the fusion context, usage is restricted to the context of zonal plasma flows and there will in general be a toroidal component in such flows as well. Thus, although the term zonal has come into use in plasma physics to emphasize an analogy with zonal flows in geophysics, it does not uniquely identify the direction of flow, unlike the case in geophysics.

ee also

* Toroidal and poloidal
* Zonal and meridional
* Zonal flow (plasma)
* Zonal flow


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