A computer code for solving the bounce-averaged Fokker-Pianck equation appropriate to stellarator transport has been developed, and its Eirst applications made. The code is much faster than the bounce-averaged MonteCarlo codes, which up to now have provided the most efficient numerical means for studying stellarator transport.Moreover, because the connection to analytic kinetic theory of the Fokker-Planck approach is more direct than cor the Monte-Carlo approach, a comparison of theory and numerical experiment is now possible at a considerably more detailed level than previously.
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