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Toroidal plasma configuration with non-planar magnetic axis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

Hussain M. Rizk
Hussain M. Rizk
Affiliation:
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, U.S.A.
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Abstract

The ideal MHD equilibrium, stability, classical diffusion, effective thermal conductivity, and Ohmic heating of a zero-shear toroidal plasma configuration with a single non-planar magnetic axis of variable torsion and curvature are investigated. The plasma has a circular cross-section through which a longitudinal current density with arbitrary profile flows. In this type of magnetic configuration, the magnetic surfaces arbitrarily rotate around the magnetic axis. This magnetic toroidal configuration is of a stellarator type with a non-planar magnetic axis. The present work also covers as special cases tokamak and a magnetic toroidal plasma configuration with a magnetic axis of arbitrarily modulated curvature.

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Research Article
Information
Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 32 , Issue 2 , October 1984 , pp. 179 - 196
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1984

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