Published November 1994
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Journal article
Magnetic field integrability and the current closure condition
Creators
- 1. Department of Physics, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama 36849-5311 (United States)
- 2. Department of Astrophysical, Planetary and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0391 (United States)
Description
Magnetic fields with translational symmetry, axisymmetry, and helical symmetry are integrable. That is, they have good flux surfaces. The current closure condition, that contour-integral dl/B is a flux surface quantity, also holds. It is possible to construct magnetic fields with broken symmetry, which have nearly integrable magnetic fields. It is shown that for nearly integrable nonsymmetric fields, the current closure condition need not hold
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Physics of Plasmas
- Journal Volume
- 1
- Journal Issue
- 11
- Journal Page Range
- p. 3713-3715.
- ISSN
- 1070-664X
- CODEN
- PHPAEN
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 26018741
- Subject category
- S70: PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY;
- Descriptors DEI
- MAGNETIC CONFINEMENT; MAGNETIC FIELD CONFIGURATIONS; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MAGNETIC FLUX; MAGNETIC ISLANDS; MHD EQUILIBRIUM; SYMMETRY; TOROIDAL CONFIGURATION
- Descriptors DEC
- ANNULAR SPACE; CLOSED CONFIGURATIONS; CONFIGURATION; CONFINEMENT; EQUILIBRIUM; PLASMA CONFINEMENT