EXPERIMENTAL-STUDY OF AXISYMMETRIC INSTABILITY OF INVERSE-DEE AND SQUARE TOKAMAK EQUILIBRIA

被引:6
作者
LIPSCHULTZ, B
PRAGER, SC
OSBORNE, TH
SPROTT, JC
PHILLIPS, M
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[1] University of Wisconsin, Madison
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.43.36
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
Inverse-dee- and square-shaped equilibria are observed by experimentally mapping the magnetic-flux plot as a function of time in a tokamak with a 4-null poloidal divertor. Inverse-dee equilibria are observed to be unstable to the vertical magnetohydrodynamic axisymmetric instability on a time scale ∼1000 poloidal Alfvén times. Square equilibria are stable on the time scale available for observation. Instability growth is apparently slowed by field-shaping hoop and wall passive stabilization. © 1979 The American Physical Society.
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