Method and apparatus for maintaining equilibrium in a helical axis stellarator

Patent · Wed Oct 31 00:00:00 EST 1984

OSTI ID:5597397

Reiman, A; Boozer, A

Apparatus for maintaining three-dimensional MHD equilibrium in a plasma contained in a helical axis stellarator includes a resonant coil system, having a configuration such that current therethrough generates a magnetic field cancelling the resonant magnetic field produced by currents driven by the plasma pressure on any given flux surface resonating with the rotational transform of another flux surface in the plasma. Current through the resonant coil system is adjusted as a function of plasma beta.

• Research Organization: Princeton Univ., NJ (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76CH03073
• Assignee: to Dept. of Energy
• Application Number: ON: DE85011626
• OSTI ID: 5597397
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY
STELLARATORS
EQUILIBRIUM PLASMA
MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS
BETA RATIO
MAGNET COILS
MAGNETIC FIELDS
CLOSED PLASMA DEVICES
ELECTRIC COILS
ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT
EQUIPMENT
FLUID MECHANICS
HYDRODYNAMICS
MECHANICS
PLASMA
THERMONUCLEAR DEVICES
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