Chaotic scattering and self-organization in spheromak sustainment |
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Authors: | Finn Sovinec del-Castillo-Negrete |
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Affiliation: | Theoretical Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545, USA. |
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Abstract: | 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. |
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