Equilibrium and Stability of Current-Carrying Discharges in the Non-Axisymmetric CTH Experiment

Autor: B. A. Stevenson, Gregory Hartwell, S. F. Knowlton, James D. Hanson
Rok vydání: 2010
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Zdroj: Contributions to Plasma Physics. 50:724-730
ISSN: 0863-1042
DOI: 10.1002/ctpp.200900059
Popis: Detailed knowledge of the experimental plasma equilibrium is becoming as important for stellarators as it is for tokamaks, but reconstruction of magnetic flux surfaces from magnetic measurements is more difficult in the three-dimensional geometry of stellarators than in axisymmetric configurations. We report the first reconstructions of experimental stellarator equilibria with the V3FIT [1] code. We also introduce the signal effectiveness, and describe initial studies of density-driven disruption in current-carrying stellarator plasmas. At low vacuum transform, disruptions can be triggered at a plasma density comparable to the Greenwald limit, but disruption signatures disappear as the vacuum rotational transform is raised above 0.1 (© 2010 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)
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