Tearing instability in a tokamak with a noncircular cross section
- Authors: Arsenin V.V.1, Skovoroda A.A.1
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Affiliations:
- National Research Center Kurchatov Institute
- Issue: Vol 42, No 12 (2016)
- Pages: 1138-1145
- Section: Methodological Notes
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/1063-780X/article/view/186063
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063780X16120023
- ID: 186063
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Abstract
Using a straight-column model to describe tokamak plasma with a noncircular cross section, it is shown how to (i) find the boundary of tearing instability from the condition of existence of a magnetohydrodynamic plasma equilibrium different from that of a straight cylinder by solving a two-dimensional linear boundary-value problem with a second-order equation with respect to the flux coordinate and (ii) find the spatial structure of the tearing mode and the corresponding effective Δ' when there is only one resonance magnetic surface in the plasma for a given axial wavenumber by solving some kind of a boundary-value problem for the perturbation. The proposed approach is illustrated by numerical calculations for the case of an elliptical cross section as an example.
About the authors
V. V. Arsenin
National Research Center Kurchatov Institute
Author for correspondence.
Email: arsenin_vv@nrcki.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow, 123098
A. A. Skovoroda
National Research Center Kurchatov Institute
Email: arsenin_vv@nrcki.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow, 123098