Low beta equilibrium and stability for anisotropic pressure closed field line plasma confinement systems
- Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX (United States). Inst. for Fusion Studies
- Kurchatov Inst., Moscow (Russian Federation). Russian Research Center
General formalism is developed to analyze the equilibrium and stability of low beta anisotropic pressure plasmas confined in closed field line magnetic systems. The formalism allows one to consider rather general magnetic systems with nonuniform axis curvature and longitudinal profiles of toroidal and multipole poloidal field. It also allows having a strong pressure anisotropy corresponding to enhanced plasma pressure in mirror cells of the system. As an example of such a system the authors consider the recently proposed linked mirror neutron source (LMNS). Application of the above formalism to the LMNS analysis confirms most of the preliminary results, however, they obtain a considerable reduction of mirror cell axis curvature and an appreciable ellipticity of plasma cross-section in the mirror cell midplane. They have also optimized the longitudinal pressure and magnetic field distribution.
- Research Organization:
- Univ. of Texas, Austin, TX (United States). Institute for Fusion Studies
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- FG05-80ET53088
- OSTI ID:
- 10161245
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/ET-53088-660; IFSR-660; ON: DE94014109; BR: 39KG01000/AT0520240; TRN: 94:013036
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: May 1994
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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