Helical core tokamak MHD equilibrium states

被引：13

作者：

Cooper, W. A. ^{[1
]}

Graves, J. P. ^{[1
]}

Sauter, O. ^{[1
]}

Rossel, J. ^{[1
]}

Albergante, M. ^{[1
]}

Coda, S. ^{[1
]}

Duval, B. P. ^{[1
]}

Labit, B. ^{[1
]}

Pochelon, A. ^{[1
]}

Reimerdes, H. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Ecole Polytech Fed Lausanne, Ctr Rech & Phys Plasmas, Assoc Euratom Confederat Suisse, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

来源：

PLASMA PHYSICS AND CONTROLLED FUSION | 2011年 / 53卷 / 12期

关键词：

INTERNAL KINK;

D O I：

10.1088/0741-3335/53/12/124005

中图分类号：

O35 [流体力学]; O53 [等离子体物理学];

学科分类号：

070204 ; 080103 ; 080704 ;

摘要：

Bifurcated magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) tokamak equilibrium states with axisymmetric or helical core structure are computed. When a peaked pressure profile is chosen, the helical core structures appear like the snakes that are observed in the JET tokamak. They also have the allure of saturated ideal internal kinks. The existence of a magnetic island is not a requisite condition. Novel equilibrium states that can model the snake are obtained for a JET configuration when the q-profile has weak reversed magnetic shear with minimum q values in the range 0.94 to 1.03. At the lower end of this q(min) range, the equilibrium snake structure lies radially well inside the domain for which q(min) <= 1. Free boundary equilibria computed for the TCV tokamak develop helical cores when beta(N) exceeds 0.3 and have a significant axis excursion for beta(N) >= 0.4. At fixed <beta > = 1.6%, the distortion of the magnetic axis is large in the range 0.95 <= q(min) <= 1.01. The plasma-vacuum interface is not significantly altered by the internal helical deformations.

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页数：11

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