Rotating magnetic field current drive and its application in the rotamak: Principles
Creators
- 1. Flinders Univ. of South Australia, Bedford Park (Australia). School of Physical Sciences
Description
Two theoretical topics are discussed in this paper: the underlying theory of rotating magnetic field (RMF) current drive and its application in the generation of a compact torus configuration known as the Rotamak. The discussion of the RMF current drive technique is based mainly on its use to drive steady azimuthal current in an infinitely long plasma cylinder. Additional discussion centres on the strong analogy between this current drive method and the workings of a simple induction motor; the importance of the relative orientation between screening currents and the applied steady magnetic field; and the applicability of a plasma model based on stationary ions. The method of generating a rotamak configuration is described and the properties of a particularly simple and useful compact torus equilibrium (the Solove'v equilibrium) are presented. (author). 9 refs, 9 figs
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Publisher
- World Scientific.
- Imprint Place
- Singapore (Singapore)
- ISBN
- 981-02-0285-7
- Imprint Title
- Small plasma physics experiments 2
- Imprint Pagination
- 373 p.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 3-21.
Conference
- Title
- Symposium on small scale laboratory plasma experiments, spring college on plasma physics.
- Dates
- 15 May - 9 Jun 1989.
- Place
- Trieste (Italy).
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Singapore
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 23061288
- Subject category
- S70: PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference, Numerical Data
- Descriptors DEI
- CURRENT-DRIVE HEATING; MAGNETIC FIELDS; REVIEWS; ROTAMAK DEVICES; ROTATION; THEORETICAL DATA
- Descriptors DEC
- COMPACT TORUS; DATA; DOCUMENT TYPES; HEATING; INFORMATION; NUMERICAL DATA; PLASMA HEATING; TORI