Validation of the linear ideal magnetohydrodynamic model of three-dimensional tokamak equilibria
Journal article, 2010

The first quantitative comparison of linear ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) theory with external magnetic measurements of the nonaxisymmetric plasma perturbation driven by external long-wavelength magnetic fields in high-temperature tokamak plasmas is presented. The comparison yields good (within 20%) agreement for plasma pressures up to ∼ 75% of the ideal stability limit calculated without a conducting wall. For higher plasma pressures, the ideal MHD model tends to overestimate the perturbed field indicating the increasing importance of stabilizing nonideal effects.

Author

M. J. Lanctot

H. Reimerdes

A. M. Garofalo

Yueqiang Liu

Chalmers, Earth and Space Sciences, Transport Theory

G. L. Jackson

R. J. La Haye

M. Okabayashi

T. H. Osborne

M. J. Schaffer

Physics of Plasmas

1070-664X (ISSN) 1089-7674 (eISSN)

Vol. 17 3 030701-

Areas of Advance

Energy

Roots

Basic sciences

Subject Categories

Fusion, Plasma and Space Physics

DOI

10.1063/1.3335237

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10/6/2017