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Relaxed state of a toroidal fusion plasma with stationary flows
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 March 2009
Abstract
Relaxation of a plasma in the presence of zeroth-order flows is studied in a realistic toroidal geometry. The field-aligned flow allows equilibria with finite pressure gradient but homogeneous temperature distribution. Numerical calculations have been performed for the first and second ellipticity regimes of the extended Grad–Shafranov–Schlüter equation. Two distinct classes of solutions exist, depending on the value of the safety factor: one with horizontally stratified density and pressure and one with concentric surfaces of constant density. A comparison of these results is made with those of Finn and Antonsen.
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