Constructing Integrable High-pressure Full-current Free-boundary Stellarator Magnetohydrodynamic Equilibrium Solutions

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العنوان: Constructing Integrable High-pressure Full-current Free-boundary Stellarator Magnetohydrodynamic Equilibrium Solutions
المؤلفون: Neilson, A. H. Reiman, D. A. Monticello, A. Brooks, D. J. Strickler, A.H. Boozer, S.R. Hudson, M. C. Zarnstorff, S.P. Hirshman, E.A. Lazarus, L. P. Ku, G. Y. Fu
بيانات النشر: Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI), 2003.
سنة النشر: 2003
مصطلحات موضوعية: Physics, National Compact Stellarator Experiment, Plasma, Fusion power, law.invention, Magnetic field, Classical mechanics, Physics::Plasma Physics, law, Electromagnetic coil, Quantum electrodynamics, Magnetohydrodynamics, Plasma stability, Stellarator
الوصف: For the (non-axisymmetric) stellarator class of plasma confinement devices to be feasible candidates for fusion power stations it is essential that, to a good approximation, the magnetic field lines lie on nested flux surfaces; however, the inherent lack of a continuous symmetry implies that magnetic islands responsible for breaking the smooth topology of the flux surfaces are guaranteed to exist. Thus, the suppression of magnetic islands is a critical issue for stellarator design, particularly for small aspect ratio devices. Pfirsch-Schluter currents, diamagnetic currents, and resonant coil fields contribute to the formation of magnetic islands, and the challenge is to design the plasma and coils such that these effects cancel. Magnetic islands in free-boundary high-pressure full-current stellarator magnetohydrodynamic equilibria are suppressed using a procedure based on the Princeton Iterative Equilibrium Solver [Reiman and Greenside, Comp. Phys. Comm. 43 (1986) 157] which iterate s the equilibrium equations to obtain the plasma equilibrium. At each iteration, changes to a Fourier representation of the coil geometry are made to cancel resonant fields produced by the plasma. The changes are constrained to preserve certain measures of engineering acceptability and to preserve the stability of ideal kink modes. As the iterations continue, the coil geometry and the plasma simultaneously converge to an equilibrium in which the island content is negligible, the plasma is stable to ideal kink modes, and the coils satisfy engineering constraints. The method is applied to a candidate plasma and coil design for the National Compact Stellarator Experiment [Reiman, et al., Phys. Plasmas 8 (May 2001) 2083].
DOI: 10.2172/815091
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