Study of the equilibrium and decay of compact toroids generated by a magnetized co-axial plasma gun
Conference
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OSTI ID:6496828
We have continued our earlier work on the co-axial gun production of compact toroidal plasmas that are contained in an oblate shaped cylindrically symmetrical flux conserver. Following our observation that the magnetic structure produced by the gun is well described by force-free currents, the analysis of the data has been extended along the lines of J.B. Taylor's theory of the reversed field pinch. Spatial magnetic field profiles are well represented by the lowest energy eigenmode solution to nabla x vector B = k vector B with k = constant.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Livermore National Lab., CA (USA)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-EN-48
- OSTI ID:
- 6496828
- Report Number(s):
- UCRL-85912; CONF-810906-4
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 10. European conference on controlled fusion and plasma physics, Moscow, USSR, 14 Sep 1981
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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