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Flux core spheromak sustainment by electrostatic helicity injection is studied in resistive MHD. The geometry has magnetized electrodes at the ends held at a potential difference V. For V>V(c) the central current column is kink unstable. The nonlinear state with V just above V(c) has a large volume of flux surfaces, with rotational transform provided by the helical kinking of the column. As V increases the kink becomes stronger, the tori are destroyed, and the field lines exhibit chaotic scattering. The distribution of field line lengths L, related to confinement and parallel current density, is studied. At larger V or larger Lundquist number S, a limit cycle appears. 相似文献
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Woodruff S Hill DN Stallard BW Bulmer R Cohen B Holcomb CT Hooper EB McLean HS Moller J Wood RD 《Physical review letters》2003,90(9):095001
By operating a magnetized coaxial plasma gun continuously with just sufficient current to enable plasma ejection, large gun-voltage spikes (approximately 1 kV) are produced, giving the highest sustained voltage approximately 500 V and highest sustained helicity injection rate observed in the Sustained Spheromak Physics Experiment. The spheromak magnetic field increases monotonically with time, exhibiting the lowest fluctuation levels observed during formation of any spheromak (B/B>/=2%). The results suggest an important mechanism for field generation by helicity injection, namely, the merging of helicity-carrying filaments. 相似文献
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Nagata M Oguro T Kagei Y Kawami K Hasegawa H Fukumoto N Iida M Masamune S Katsurai M Uyama T 《Physical review letters》2003,90(22):225001
In order to understand self-organization in helicity-driven systems, we have investigated the dynamics of low-aspect-ratio toroidal plasmas by decreasing the external toroidal field and reversing its sign in time. Consequently, we have discovered that the helicity-driven toroidal plasma relaxes towards the flipped state. Surprisingly, it has been observed that not only toroidal flux but also poloidal flux reverses sign spontaneously during the relaxation process. The self-reversal of the magnetic fields is attributed to the nonlinear growth of the n=1 kink instability of the central open flux. 相似文献
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Victor BS Jarboe TR Hossack AC Ennis DA Nelson BA Smith RJ Akcay C Hansen CJ Marklin GJ Hicks NK Wrobel JS 《Physical review letters》2011,107(16):165005
The first sustainment of toroidal plasma current of 50 kA at up to 3 times the injected currents, added in quadrature, using steady inductive helicity injection is described. Separatrix currents-currents not linking the helicity injectors-are sustained up to 40 kA. Decreases in the n=1 toroidal mode of the poloidal magnetic field at higher current amplifications indicate more quiescent, direct toroidal current drive. Results are achieved in HIT-SI (with a spheromak of major radius 0.3 m) during deuterium operations immediately after helium operation. These results represent a breakthrough in the development of this new current drive method for magnetic confinement fusion. 相似文献
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Salar Elahi A. Ghoranneviss M. 《IEEE transactions on plasma science. IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society》2010,38(2):181-185
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Sustainment of spheromak plasmas produced in an external equilibrium field has been demonstrated with a center current transformer (ohmic heating (OH) coil) which is used to inductively drive the toroidal current of the plasma. The OH coil is covered by a cylindrical metal liner. It provides the stability against the tilt and shift motions of spheromaks at the expense of the simple connection of its geometry. Since the spheromak is characterized by the elimination of external toroidal fields in association with nonconservation of a toroidal flux during magnetic relaxation, the metal liner was made electrically disconnected from the main vacuum vessel (spheromak mode). In the experiments, existense of the dynamo effect, meaning automatic generation of toroidal flux similar to that of a reversed field pinch (RFP), is observed. Measured MHD activity consists of multihelicity helical modes with toroidal mode numbers N = 1-3. In order to investigate the difference between spheromaks and RFP's in the MHD activity during sustainment, experiments have also been made with the metal liner of the OH coil connected with the vessel (RFP mode). The dynamics of the MHD activities observed are compared with those obtained from the three-dimensional MHD simulations by Katayama and Katsurai [18], and their implication in the dynamo effect is discussed. 相似文献
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Woodruff S Stallard BW McLean HS Hooper EB Bulmer R Cohen BI Hill DN Holcomb CT Moller J Wood RD 《Physical review letters》2004,93(20):205002
By operating a magnetized coaxial gun in a pulsed mode it is possible to produce large voltage pulses of duration approximately 500 mus while reaching a few kV, giving a discrete input of helicity into a spheromak. In the sustained spheromak physics experiment (SSPX), it is observed that pulsing serves to nearly double the stored magnetic energy and double the temperature. We discuss these results by comparison with 3D MHD simulations of the same phenomenon. 相似文献
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Cabral J.A.C. Malaquias A. Praxedes A. Van Toledo W. Varandas C.A.F. 《IEEE transactions on plasma science. IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society》1994,22(4):350-358
In this paper we describe the heavy ion beam diagnostic for the tokamak ISTTOK, which has been designed to determine the temporal evolution of the plasma density, poloidal magnetic field and plasma potential profiles. This diagnostic makes use of a new type of high density caesium plasma source, a multiple cell detector and a fast data acquisition system. We describe the numerical code for trajectory and beam attenuation simulations, a method for the experimental determination of the poloidal field profile, the ion gun and the detection, control and data acquisition systems. Calibration tests and the first experimental results are presented 相似文献
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McLean HS Woodruff S Hooper EB Bulmer RH Hill DN Holcomb C Moller J Stallard BW Wood RD Wang Z 《Physical review letters》2002,88(12):125004
Magnetic fluctuations have been reduced to approximately 1% during discharges on the Sustained Spheromak Physics Experiment by shaping the spatial distribution of the bias magnetic flux in the device. In the resulting quiescent regime, the safety factor profile is nearly flat in the plasma and the dominant ideal and resistive MHD modes are greatly reduced. During this period, the temperature profile is peaked at the magnetic axis and maps onto magnetic flux contours. Energy confinement time is improved over previous reports in a driven spheromak. 相似文献
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介绍了 HL-2M 装置上满足等离子体放电的磁测量系统的物理设计,主要包括磁探针、磁通环以及
电流测量系统的设计。通过 HL-2M 装置典型的放电位形参数对磁探针的极向布局、有效面积,磁通环的极向布
局以及测量等离子体电流的罗氏圈互感值进行了初步设计。目前,HL-2M 装置已经完成初始等离子体放电。各个
子系统均能达到其测量目标。 相似文献
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用Greene,Johnson和Weimer的方法重新推导了各向异性托卡马克等离子体中的Grad-Shafranov平衡方程。从广义能量原理分析了各向异性高能粒子分量对托卡马克等离子体内扭曲模的稳定作用,并以能量慢化分布和压力随方位角变化基本呈方形的两种高能粒子分布为例仔细计算了此作用,找出了迴转点在强场一侧的高能俘获粒子对托卡马克等离子体内扭曲模的稳定窗口,并深入讨论了它与各物理参数的依赖关系。
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Xu C. Ou Y. Dalessio J. Schuster E. Luce T. C. Ferron J. R. Walker M. L. Humphreys D. A. 《IEEE transactions on plasma science. IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society》2010,38(2):163-173
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Wong KL Chu MS Luce TC Petty CC Politzer PA Prater R Chen L Harvey RW Austin ME Johnson LC La Haye RJ Snider RT 《Physical review letters》2000,85(5):996-999
Experimental evidence is reported of an internal kink instability driven by a new mechanism: barely trapped suprathermal electrons produced by off-axis electron cyclotron heating on the DIII-D tokamak. It occurs in plasmas with an evolving safety factor profile q(r) when q(min) approaches 1. This instability is most active when ECCD is applied on the high field side of the flux surface. It has a bursting behavior with poloidal/toroidal mode number = m/n = 1/1. In positive magnetic shear plasmas, this mode becomes the fishbone instability. This observation can be qualitatively explained by the drift reversal of the barely trapped suprathermal electrons. 相似文献
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Yang T. F. Conn R. W. 《IEEE transactions on plasma science. IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society》1976,4(4):249-254
The MHD equilibrium and stability of noncircular tokamak plasmas limited by a separatrix is studied for reactor size systems. A typical example with a plasma current of 15.8 MA and major radius of 8.1 is presented. The required vertical field is generated by a set of discrete external coils and no conducting shell is included. The detailed equilibrium shape is calculated numerically for a vertical elongated plasma with two stagnation points symmetrically located above and below the midplane as would be required for a system with a poloidal divertor. The plasma height to width ratio is 2, the plasma shape factor is 1.6 and poloidal ? is 2.2. The plasma is locally stable. The general stability criteria with respect to quasi-rigid motions (special kink modes) are calculated numerically and found to be satisfied. Size scaling and the engineering constraints are discussed. 相似文献
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Jarboe TR Hamp WT Marklin GJ Nelson BA O'neill RG Redd AJ Sieck PE Smith RJ Wrobel JS 《Physical review letters》2006,97(11):115003
A spheromak is formed for the first time using a new steady state inductive helicity injection method. Using two inductive injectors with odd symmetry and oscillating at 5.8 kHz, a steady state spheromak with even symmetry is formed and sustained through nonlinear relaxation. A spheromak with about 13 kA of toroidal current is formed and sustained using about 3 MW of power. This is a much lower power threshold for spheromak production than required for electrode-based helicity injection. Internal magnetic probe data, including oscillations driven by the injectors, agree with the plasma being in the Taylor state. The agreement is remarkable considering the only fitting parameter is the amplitude of the spheromak component of the state. 相似文献
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Solutions of Grad-Shafranov(GS) equation with Reversed Current Density(RCD) profiles present magnetic islands when the magnetic flux is explicitly dependent on the poloidal angle.In this work it is shown that a typical cylindrical(large aspect-ratio) RCD equilibrium configuration perturbed by the magnetic field of a circular loop(simulating a divertor) is capable of generate magnetic islands,due to the poloidal symmetry break of the GS equilibrium solution. 相似文献
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Taylor relaxation in a driven plasma with normal magnetic field intercepting the boundary is described by the Jensen-Chu theory, which predicts infinite energy and helicity barriers that constrain the accessible relaxed states to system scale. For a partially relaxed force-free (j=kB) plasma where k is a field line constant, nonlinearity regularizes the Jensen-Chu singularities and new branches of relaxed state become accessible, such as the flipped spheromak and other high k states. 相似文献
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In a tokamak plasma, the poloidal magnetic field profile closely depends on the current density profile. We can deduce the internal magnetic field from the analysis of circular polarization of the spectral lines emitted by the plasma. The theory of the measurement and a detailed design of the Zeeman polarimeter constructed to measure the poloidal field profile in the ADITYA tokamak are presented. The Fabry-Perot which we have employed in our design, with photodiode arrays followed by lock-in detection of the polarization signal, allows the measurement of the fractional circular polarization. In this system He-II line with wavelength 4686 Å is adopted as the monitoring spectral line. The line emission used in the present measurement is not well localized in the plasma, necessiating the use of a spatial inversion procedure to obtain the local values of the field. 相似文献
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本文讨论了圆截面高比压等离子体关于高n气球模的稳定性,在高比压情况下,相应的极向磁场对气球模有相当强的驱动作用,从而严重影响了第二稳定区的结构,我们详细计算了不同剪切、不同压强梯度及不同极向场参数对气球模本征函数和本征频率的影响,这些结果比较完善地反映了圆截面环流器中理想磁流体气球模理论所预示的主要结论。
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