An angular cutoff composite model for investigation on electromagnetic scattering from two-dimensional rough sea surfaces

Based on the local configuration angle division to select the corresponding method for electromagnetic scattering calculation from rough sea surface,this paper presents an angular cutoff composite model:when the local scattered angle is in the specular region that is given by an approximately 20 degrees cone around the specular direction,the Kirchhoff approximation is applied to evaluate the specular reflection,which dominates the total scattering in this region;the small perturbation method is employed to handle the diffuse reflection which is predominant as the local scattered angle is situated out of the specular region.Numerical results are compared with those of experimental and theoretical models in several configurations as a function of incident angle,wind speed,wind direction.The comparison of numerical results of other experimental and theoretical models in several configurations shows that the new composite model is robust to give accurate numerical evaluations for the sea surface scattering.     

Longitudinal instability caused by long drifts in the C-ADS injector-Ⅰ

The period length is usually much larger than the cavity effective length in a low energy superconducting linac.The long drifts between cavities will not only decrease the acceptance of the linac, but also lead to possible instability. The linac will be more sensitive to mismatch and other perturbations. From the longitudinal motion equation, the function which describes the parametric resonance is deduced and the relation between the instability region and the cavity filling factor is discussed. It indicates that if the zero current phase advance per period is kept below 90°, instability driven by parametric resonance will never occur. The space charge effect will enhance the instability, so that a stricter limitation on the phase advance per cell is required. From the numerical simulation results for two different schemes of Injector-Ⅰ of the C-ADS driver linac, one can find that even with just three cells in the unstable region, significant emittance growth can be observed. Further investigations show that it is apt to produce halo particles under resonance, and the machine becomes more sensitive to errors and mismatches. Therefore, it is important to keep all cells in the stable region throughout the linac of very high beam power to minimize beam losses.     

Effect of Magnetohydrodynamic Perturbations on the Orbit Loss of Alpha Particles in Tokamak Plasma

We investigate the orbit loss of alpha particles under helical magnetic perturbation in a tokamak.The results show that low-frequency and low-mode number magnetic perturbation can cause stochastic loss of alpha particles.This effect is significant for those particles close to the boundary between the transit zone and the trapped zone.The particle loss is sensitive to the phase of the magnetic perturbation,indicating the modulation of the particle loss with respect to magnetic perturbation.It is also found that the precession of the particle banana orbit can even further enhance the particle loss.     

Electron Temperature Gradient Driven Instability in High Beta Plasmas of a Sheared Slab

Neglecting the magnetic gradient drift effects, we derive a simplified version of the integral eigenvalue equations for perturbations of electrostatic potential, and the perpendicular and parallel components of magnetic vector potential in plasmas of sheared slab geometry. The electron temperature gradient (ETG) instability in high beta plasmas is studied with the equations and the corresponding computer code. The preliminary results indicate that the coupling to perturbation of the perpendicular component of the magnetic vector potential has strong destabilization effects on ETG instabilities in contrast to the stabilization effects from the coupling to that of the parallel component when the magnetic gradient drift is not taken into account.     

An Island Coalescence Scenario for Near-Earth Current Disruption in the Magnetotail

A current disruption and dipolarization scenario associated with island coalescences in the near-Earth region is proposed. The thin and elongated current-sheet built up during the growth phase is unstable due to a tearing mode instability that leads to formation of multiple magnetic islands （or magnetic flux ropes in the three dimensional case） in the near-Earth region. The growth rate of the tearing mode shoual be different in different locations because the rate is in general determined by the external driving force and the local plasma sheet properties. When the rate of the magnetic reconnection in the mid-tail region around 20RE is much larger than that in other locations, the strong bulk earthward flows resulting from the fast reconnection in the mid-tail drive the earthward convection and the coalescence of the magnetic islands. Consequently, the cross-tail current in the near-Earth region is suddenly disrupted and the geometry of the magnetic field changes from tall-like to dipolar-like in the ideal time scale. This proposed scenario is tested by Hall MHD simulation and is compared with the observations.     

Transport Through a Precessing Spin Coupled to Noncollinearly Polarized Ferromagnetic Leads

The quantum electronic transport through a precessing magnetic spin coupled to noncollinearly polarized ferromagnetic leads （F-MS-F） has been studied in this paper. The nonequilibrium Green function approach is used to calculate local density of states （LDOS） and current in the presence of external bias. The characters of LDOS and the electronic current are obtained. The tunneling current is investigated for different precessing angle and different configurations of the magnetization of the leads. The investigation revea/s that when the precessing angle takes θ 〈 π /2 and negative bias is applied, the resonant tunneling current appears, otherwise, it appears when positive bias is applied. When the leads are totally polarized and the precessing angel takes O, the tunneling current changes with the configuration of two leads; and it becomes zero when the two leads are antiparallel.     

Gap opening and tuning in single-layer graphene with combined electric and magnetic field modulation

The energy band structure of single-layer graphene under one-dimensional electric and magnetic field modulation is theoretically investigated. The criterion for bandgap opening at the Dirac point is analytically derived with a two-fold degeneracy second-order perturbation method. It is shown that a direct or an indirect bandgap semiconductor could be realized in a single-layer graphene under some specific configurations of the electric and magnetic field arrangement. Due to the bandgap generated in the single-layer graphene,the Klein tunneling observed in pristine graphene is completely suppressed.     

Effect of adiabatic variation of dust charges on dust acoustic solitary waves in magnetized dusty plasmas

The effect of dust charging and the influence of its adiabatic variation on dust acoustic waves is investigated. By employing the reductive perturbation technique we derived a Zakharov－Kuznetsov (ZK) equation for small amplitude dust acoustic waves. We have analytically verified that there are only rarefactive solitary waves for this system. The instability region for one-dimensional solitary wave under transverse perturbations has also been obtained. The obliquely propagating solitary waves to the z-direction for the ZK equation are given in this paper as well.     

Connection of Screw Instability with Electric Current in an Accretion Disc around a Black Hole

The screw instability of the magnetic field is discussed based on its poloidal configuration generated by a single toroidal electric current flowing in the equatorial plane of a Kerr black hole （BH）. The rotation of the BH relative to the disc induces an electromotive force, which in turn results in a poloidal electric current. By using Ampere＇s law, we calculate the toroidal component of the magnetic field and derive a criterion for the screw instability of the magnetic field connecting the rotating BH with its surrounding disc. It is determined that the screw instability is related to two parameters： the radius of the disc and the BH spin. The occurrence of screw instability is depicted in a parameter space. In addition, we discuss the effect of the screw instability on magnetic extraction of energy from the rotating BH.     

Radial magnetic field in magnetic confinement device

The intrinsic radial magnetic field(B r) in a tokamak is explored by the solution of the Grad–Shafranov equation in axisymmetric configurations through an expansion of the four terms of the magnetic surfaces. It can be inferred from the simulation results that at the core of the device, the tokamak should possess a three-dimensional magnetic field configuration, which could be reduced to a two-dimensional one when the radial position is greater than 0.6a. The radial magnetic field and the amzimuthal magnetic field have the same order of magnitude at the core of the device. These results can offer a reference for the analysis of the plasma instability, the property of the core plasma, and the magnetic field measurement.     

磁场对水平温度梯度下双层流体热对流的影响

在水平温度梯度下,双层流体交界面的表面张力会出现梯度,驱动热毛细对流运动,造成热剪切层内的扰动.本文数值模拟了不同重力条件下,双层流体内的对流现象,得出了在微重力时,对流运动将引起热剪切层内强烈的扰动.为了减弱这种扰动,我们利用磁场对流体的运动进行控制.为此,又对微重力条件下,不同方向应用磁场下的热剪切层内扰动行为进行了数值研究,结果显示,磁场对热剪切层稳定性有促进作用,加入法向的应用磁场最为有效.     

光纤中扰动的小信号增益

从非线性薛定谔方程出发,在小信号近似下,推导并求解了光纤中扰动相位和幅度的演化方程,利用得到的扰动相位及功率增益的表达式,研究了初相位和频率对传输过程中扰动增益的影响。研究表明：扰动的初相位对扰动增益的初值和初始阶段的演化规律有重要影响;取决于扰动初相位,任何一个频率的扰动增益都有可能达到一个共同的最大值;在被认为无调制不稳定的正色散区和扰动频率大于截止频率的负色散区,扰动增益随距离是振荡的;在被认为有调制不稳定的扰动频率小于截止频率的负色散区,频率相同而初相位不同的扰动增益将经历不同形式的演化后趋于同一正值。     

Effects of q-profiles of a weak magnetic shear on energetic ion excited q=1 mode in tokamak plasmas

In this paper, we study the effect of safety factor profiles, particularly with a very weak magnetic shear, on the m/n = 1mode excited by energetic ions in tokamak plasmas. It is found that the profile plays a significant role in the onset of the mode, and the thresholds for the instability are also derived. The numerical results for configurations with conventional or reversed non monotonic magnetic shears are discussed. The effects of radial location of rational surfaces, edge q value, and flatness of q-profile on the energetic ion excited mode are further analyzed in detail.     

Toroidal plasma rotation induced by the dynamic ergodic divertor in the TEXTOR tokamak

The first results of the Dynamic Ergodic Divertor in TEXTOR, when operating in the m/n=3/1 mode configuration, are presented. The deeply penetrating external magnetic field perturbation of this configuration increases the toroidal plasma rotation. Staying below the excitation threshold for the m/n=2/1 tearing mode, this toroidal rotation is always in the direction of the plasma current, even if the toroidal projection of the rotating magnetic field perturbation is in the opposite direction. The observed toroidal rotation direction is consistent with a radial electric field, generated by an enhanced electron transport in the ergodic layers near the resonances of the perturbation. This is an effect different from theoretical predictions, which assume a direct coupling between rotating perturbation and plasma to be the dominant effect of momentum transfer.     

Rayleigh-Taylor instability experiments with precise and arbitrary control of the initial interface shape

In a Rayleigh-Taylor instability a dense fluid sits metastably atop a less dense fluid, a configuration that can be stabilized using a magnetic field gradient when one fluid is highly paramagnetic. On switching off the magnetic field, the instability occurs as the dense fluid falls under gravity. By affixing appropriately shaped magnetically permeable wires to the outside of the cell, one may impose arbitrarily chosen and well-controlled initial perturbations on the interface. This technique is used to examine both the linear and nonlinear growth regimes for which the perturbation amplitudes, growth rates, and nonlinear growth coefficients are obtained.     

Thermal instability of a reconnecting current layer as a trigger for solar flares

The stability of small perturbations of a reconnecting current layer (CL) in a plasma with a strong magnetic field has been investigated in the approximation of dissipative magnetohydrodynamics. The case where the wavevector of the perturbations is parallel to the electric current in the CL has been considered. The suppression of plasma heat conduction by a magnetic field perturbation inside the CL is shown to be responsible for the instability. At the linear stage of instability development, the perturbations grow with the characteristic radiative plasma cooling time calculated in the approximation of an optically thin plasma with cosmic abundances of elements. The formation of a periodic structure of cold and hot magnetic flux tubes, viz., filaments, located across the direction of the electric current, should be expected at the nonlinear stage of the instability in the CL. The proposed mechanism of the thermal CL instability can explain the sequential brightening (ignition) in the arcades of magnetic loops in solar flares.     

Quasicoherent oscillations induced by nonthermal electrons during magnetic reconnection in the T-10 tokamak

Small-scale quasicoherent oscillations of the x-ray emissivity and magnetic field perturbations are observed in the T-10 tokamak during abrupt growth of the m=2, n=1 magnetohydrodynamic modes at the density limit disruption. Analysis indicates a possible link between the small-scale oscillations and nonthermal electron beams induced around the X points of the m=2, n=1 magnetic island during reconnection of magnetic field lines at the disruption instability.     

Stability of magnetohydrodynamic stratified shear flows

Summary The linear stability of a stratified shear flow of a perfectly conducting bounded fluid in the presence of a magnetic field aligned with the flow and buoyancy forces has been studied under Boussinesq approximation. A new upper bound has been obtained for the range of real and imaginary parts of the complex wave velocity for growing perturbations. The upper bound depends on minimum Richardson number, wave number, Alfvén velocity and basic flow velocity. H?iland's necessary criterion for instability of hydrodynamic stratified homogeneous shear flow is modified and its analog for nonhomogeneous magnetohydrodynamic cases is derived. Finally the upper bound for the growth rate ofKC _i and its variants, whereK is the wave number andC _i the imaginary part of complex wave velocity, is derived as the necessary condition of instability. All estimates remain valid even when the minimum richardson numberJ ₁, for some practical problems, exceeds 1/4 for growing perturbations. The authors of this paper have agreed to not receive the proofs for correction.     

Internal kink instability during off-axis electron cyclotron current drive in the DIII-D tokamak

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.     

自约束球形等离子体的平衡与稳定性

本文用磁流体力学的概念,解释并证实了在环境压力P₀中确可存在平衡且稳定的球形等离子体。同时发现在自约束的等离子体平衡态不可能是无力场位形。还证明自约束的球状等离子体平衡态不唯一。计算结果表明,等离子体火球内部的压力P小于环境压力P₀,与球形马克的磁场形态比较后发现自约束等离子体火球中的磁轴向中心偏移约10％,磁场的剪切稍弱。用Mercier判据可初步得知自约束球形等离子体平衡态是关于局域模稳定的。 关键词：