Saturated ideal kink/peeling formations described as three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic tokamak equilibrium states

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作者
Cooper, W. A. [1 ]
Brunetti, D. [1 ]
Duval, B. P. [1 ]
Faustin, J. M. [1 ]
Graves, J. P. [1 ]
Kleiner, A. [1 ]
Patten, H. [1 ]
Pfefferle, D. [1 ]
Porte, L. [1 ]
Raghunathan, M. [1 ]
Reimerdes, H. [1 ]
Sauter, O. [1 ]
Tran, T. M. [1 ]
机构
[1] Ecole Polytech Fed Lausanne, SPC, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
基金
瑞士国家科学基金会;
关键词
STABILITY PROPERTIES; MHD STABILITY; REGIME; DENSITY; MODES; SHEAR; BETA;
D O I
10.1063/1.4945743
中图分类号
O35 [流体力学]; O53 [等离子体物理学];
学科分类号
070204 ; 080103 ; 080704 ;
摘要
Free boundary magnetohydrodynamic equilibrium states with spontaneous three dimensional deformations of the plasma-vacuum interface are computed for the first time. The structures obtained have the appearance of saturated ideal external kink/peeling modes. High edge pressure gradients yield toroidal mode number n = 1 corrugations for a high edge bootstrap current and larger n distortions when this current is small. Deformations in the plasma boundary region induce a nonaxisymmetric Pfirsch-Schluter current driving a field-aligned current ribbon consistent with reported experimental observations. A variation in the 3D equilibrium confirms that the n = 1 mode is a kink/peeling structure. We surmise that our calculated equilibrium structures constitute a viable model for the edge harmonic oscillations and outer modes associated with a quiescent H-mode operation in shaped tokamak plasmas.
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