Published October 1982 | Version v1
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Magnetic and drift surfaces in toroidal-plasma equilibria

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A method was developed for following magnetic field lines and guiding center orbits of isolated charged particles in toroidal plasma configurations with no spatial symmetries. The heart of the method lies in a divergence-free approximation to a numerical equilibrium magnetic field B that has been computed over a grid of points by the computer code of Betancourt and Garabedian. Considerations from the KAM theory for Hamiltonian systems and the results of our studies lead us to believe that the solenoidal property of B, del . B = 0 must be preserved to be able to follow trajectories in the torus adequately

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134 p.
Report number
DOE/ER/03077--178

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Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
14747803
Subject category
S70: PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY;
Descriptors DEI
COMPUTER CODES; EQUILIBRIUM PLASMA; GUIDING-CENTER APPROXIMATION; HIGH-BETA PLASMA; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; STELLARATORS; TOROIDAL CONFIGURATION; TRANSPORT THEORY
Descriptors DEC
ANNULAR SPACE; CLOSED PLASMA DEVICES; CONFIGURATION; FLUID MECHANICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MECHANICS; PLASMA; THERMONUCLEAR DEVICES

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MF--98.