On positional stability of current‐carrying plasma in a helical winding
作者:
Michael J. Schaffer,
Wayne D. Bard,
期刊:
Physics of Fluids(00319171)
(AIP Available online 1984)
卷期:
Volume 27,
issue 3
页码: 667-674
ISSN:0031-9171
年代: 1984
DOI:10.1063/1.864675
出版商: AIP
数据来源: AIP
摘要:
The average force acting on a current‐carrying plasma column is calculated when a straight multipolar helical winding is displaced laterally with respect to the plasma, whose average position is kept fixed by a uniform external transverse magnetic fieldBx. This nonsymmetric equilibrium problem is solved for force‐freej/B=const plasmas by Fourier‐analyzing plasma and vacuum fields into helical harmonics and numerically solving the free boundary interface for their amplitudes. In the stellarator limit the average helical force is as predicted from stellarator expansion theory. In the new OHTE limit, bothl=2 andl=3 reversed pitch pinches are repelled from the helix. A simple explanation is offered in terms of plasma diamagnetism to the helical field.
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