FIELD REVERSED CONFIGURATION LIFETIME SCALING BASED ON MEASUREMENTS FROM THE LARGE S-EXPERIMENT

被引:73
作者
HOFFMAN, AL [1 ]
SLOUGH, JT [1 ]
机构
[1] STI OPTRON,BELLEVUE,WA
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10.1088/0029-5515/33/1/I03
中图分类号
O35 [流体力学]; O53 [等离子体物理学];
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070204 ; 080103 ; 080704 ;
摘要
Flux, energy and particle lifetimes have been measured in the new Large s Experiment field reversed configuration (FRC) facility. By careful control of the formation process, it was possible to form symmetric, quiescent FRCs, with s values higher than 4, in the one year of operation of the device. A wide range of plasma conditions was achieved, with ion temperatures varying between 0.1 and 1.5 keV. The lifetimes continue to scale approximately with the r(s)2/rho(i) parameter found in earlier work, with a coefficient proportional to x(s) to a power between 0.5 and 1.
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