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Energy and Environmental Engineering(CEASE PUBLICATION) Vol. 3(3), pp. 56 - 60
DOI: 10.13189/eee.2015.030304
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On the Equilibrium and Stability of ITER Relevant Plasmas
Ap Kuiroukidis 1, G. N. Throumoulopoulos 2,*, H. Tasso 3
1 Department of Physics, University of Ioannina, GR 451 10 Ioannina, Greece
2 Technological Education Institute of Serres, 621 24 Serres, Greece
3 Max-Planck-Institut fur Plasmaphysik, D-85748 Garching, Germany
ABSTRACT
We present recent results on steady states of translational symmetric and axisymmetric ITER relevant plasmas with incompressible sheared flow in connection with a generalized Grad-Shafranov (GGS) equation and on their stability. On the basis of a variety of ITER pertinent solutions of the GGS equation constructed it turns out that the flow affects noticeably the equilibrium quantities in qualitative agreement with the advanced confinement regimes phenomenology. Also, application of a sufficient condition for linear stability indicates that stabilization is mainly caused by the variation of the magnetic field in the direction perpendicular to the magnetic surfaces, related to the magnetic shear, depends on the plasma shaping and is sensitive to the up-down asymmetry. In certain cases the sheared flow has a weaker stabilizing effect enhanced by the equilibrium nonlinearity.
KEYWORDS
Magnetohydrodynamics, Equilibrium, Stability, Tokamak, Advanced Confinement
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[1] Ap Kuiroukidis , G. N. Throumoulopoulos , H. Tasso , "On the Equilibrium and Stability of ITER Relevant Plasmas," Energy and Environmental Engineering(CEASE PUBLICATION), Vol. 3, No. 3, pp. 56 - 60, 2015. DOI: 10.13189/eee.2015.030304.
(b). APA Format:
Ap Kuiroukidis , G. N. Throumoulopoulos , H. Tasso (2015). On the Equilibrium and Stability of ITER Relevant Plasmas. Energy and Environmental Engineering(CEASE PUBLICATION), 3(3), 56 - 60. DOI: 10.13189/eee.2015.030304.