Self-consistent diverted tokamak equilibria with nonzero edge current

The semi-analytical method, previously used to construct model double-null and single-null diverted tokamak equi- libria (Bingren Shi, Plasma Phys. Control Fusion 50 (2008) 085006, 51 (2009) 105008, Nucl. Fusion 51 (2011) 023004), is extended to describe diverted tokamak equilibria with nonzero edge current, including the Pfirsch–Schlüter(PS) cur- rent. The PS current density is expressed in a way suitable to describe a diverted tokamak configuration in the near separatrix region. The model equilibrium is expressed by only two terms of the exact separable solutions of the Grad– Shafranov equation, one of which is governed by a homogeneous ordinary differential equation, and the other by an inhomogeneous one. The particular merits of such a model configuration are that the internal region inside the separa- trix and a suitable scrape-off layer can be simultaneously described by this exact solution. To investigate the physics in the region near the X-point, the magnetic surfaces can be satisfactorily described by approximate hyperbolic curves.