Eliminating Islands in High-pressure Free-boundary Stellarator Magnetohydrodynamic Equilibrium Solutions [electronic resource].

Published:: Washington, D.C. : United States. Dept. of Energy, 2002.
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Additional Creators:: United States. Department of Energy and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information

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Magnetic islands in free-boundary stellarator equilibria are suppressed using a procedure that iterates the plasma equilibrium equations and, at each iteration, adjusts the coil geometry to cancel resonant fields produced by the plasma. The coils are constrained to satisfy certain measures of engineering acceptability and the plasma is constrained to ensure kink stability. As the iterations continue, the coil geometry and the plasma simultaneously converge to an equilibrium in which the island content is negligible. The method is applied with success to a candidate plasma and coil design for the National Compact Stellarator eXperiment [Physics of Plasma, 7 (2000) 1911].

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E 1.99:pppl-3762
pppl-3762

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Published through SciTech Connect.
11/19/2002.
"pppl-3762"
S.R. Hudson; S.P. Hirshman; M.C. Zarnstorff; D.J. Strickler; A.H. Boozer; D.A. Monticello; A.H. Reiman.
Princeton Plasma Physics Lab., NJ (US)

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AC02-76CH03073

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