Oscillating-Field Current-Drive Experiments in a Reversed Field Pinch

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.035003

Title: Oscillating-Field Current-Drive Experiments in a Reversed Field Pinch

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Oscillating-field current drive (OFCD) is a steady-state magnetic helicity injection method to drive net toroidal current in a plasma by applying oscillating poloidal and toroidal loop voltages. OFCD is added to standard toroidal induction to produce about 10% of the total current in the Madison symmetric torus. The dependence of the added current on the phase between the two applied voltages is measured. Maximum current does not occur at the phase of the maximum helicity injection rate. Effects of OFCD on magnetic fluctuations and dissipated power are shown.

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McCollam, K.J.; Blair, A.P.; Prager, S.C.; Sarff, J.S. ^[1]

University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706 (United States)

Publication Date:: Fri Jan 27 00:00:00 EST 2006

OSTI Identifier:: 20776988

Resource Type:: Journal Article

Resource Relation:: Journal Name: Physical Review Letters; Journal Volume: 96; Journal Issue: 3; Other Information: DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.035003; (c) 2006 The American Physical Society; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; CURRENTS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; HELICITY; INDUCTION; PLASMA; REVERSE-FIELD PINCH; REVERSED-FIELD PINCH DEVICES; STEADY-STATE CONDITIONS

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                    McCollam, K.J., Blair, A.P., Prager, S.C., and Sarff, J.S. Oscillating-Field Current-Drive Experiments in a Reversed Field Pinch.  United States: N. p., 2006. 
        Web.  doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.035003.

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                    McCollam, K.J., Blair, A.P., Prager, S.C., & Sarff, J.S. Oscillating-Field Current-Drive Experiments in a Reversed Field Pinch.  United States.  doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.035003.

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                    McCollam, K.J., Blair, A.P., Prager, S.C., and Sarff, J.S. Fri .  
        "Oscillating-Field Current-Drive Experiments in a Reversed Field Pinch".  United States.  
        doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.035003.

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@article{osti_20776988,

  title        = {Oscillating-Field Current-Drive Experiments in a Reversed Field Pinch},

  author       = {McCollam, K.J. and Blair, A.P. and Prager, S.C. and Sarff, J.S.},

  abstractNote = {Oscillating-field current drive (OFCD) is a steady-state magnetic helicity injection method to drive net toroidal current in a plasma by applying oscillating poloidal and toroidal loop voltages. OFCD is added to standard toroidal induction to produce about 10% of the total current in the Madison symmetric torus. The dependence of the added current on the phase between the two applied voltages is measured. Maximum current does not occur at the phase of the maximum helicity injection rate. Effects of OFCD on magnetic fluctuations and dissipated power are shown.},

  doi          = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.035003},

  journal      = {Physical Review Letters},

  number       = 3,

  volume       = 96,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Fri Jan 27 00:00:00 EST 2006},

  month        = {Fri Jan 27 00:00:00 EST 2006}

}

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