@article{5972, author = {M. de Rover and A.M.R. Schilham and A. Montvai and N. J. L. Cardozo}, title = {Test particle transport in perturbed magnetic fields in tokamaks}, abstract = {Numerical calculations of magnetic field line trajectories in a tokamak are used to investigate the common hypotheses that (i) field lines in a chaotic field make a Gaussian random walk and (ii) that the poloidal component of the magnetic field is uniform in regions with a chaotic magnetic field. Both hypotheses are found invalid in typical tokamak conditions. A test particle transport model in the so-called "collisionless diffusion" limit is presented, based on the field line excursions in numerical simulations. Decorrelation mechanisms that effectively enhance the transport in a stochastic field are investigated. (C) 1999 American Institute of Physics. [S1070-664X(99)02406-4].}, year = {1999}, journal = {Physics of Plasmas}, volume = {6}, number = {6}, pages = {2443-2451}, month = {Jun}, isbn = {1070-664X}, doi = {10.1063/1.873516}, language = {eng}, }