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Title: Helicity content and tokamak applications of helicity

Abstract

Magnetic helicity is approximately conserved by the turbulence associated with resistive instabilities of plasmas. To generalize the application of the concept of helicity, the helicity content of an arbitrary bounded region of space will be defined. The definition has the virtues that both the helicity content and its time derivative have simple expressions in terms of the poloidal and toroidal magnetic fluxes, the average toroidal loop voltage and the electric potential on the bounding surface, and the volume integral of E-B. The application of the helicity concept to tokamak plasmas is illustrated by a discussion of so-called MHD current drive, an example of a stable tokamak q profile with q less than one in the center, and a discussion of the possibility of a natural steady-state tokamak due to the bootstrap current coupling to tearing instabilities.

Authors:
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Princeton Plasma Physics Lab. (PPPL), Princeton, NJ (United States)
OSTI Identifier:
5628601
Report Number(s):
PPPL-2329
ON: DE86011364
DOE Contract Number:  
AC02-76CH03073
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; TOKAMAK DEVICES; HELICITY; MAGNETIC FLUX; PLASMA INSTABILITY; TEARING INSTABILITY; TURBULENCE; CLOSED PLASMA DEVICES; INSTABILITY; PARTICLE PROPERTIES; PLASMA MACROINSTABILITIES; THERMONUCLEAR DEVICES; 700107* - Fusion Energy- Plasma Research- Instabilities

Citation Formats

Boozer, A H. Helicity content and tokamak applications of helicity. United States: N. p., 1986. Web. doi:10.2172/5628601.
Boozer, A H. Helicity content and tokamak applications of helicity. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/5628601
Boozer, A H. 1986. "Helicity content and tokamak applications of helicity". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/5628601. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/5628601.
@article{osti_5628601,
title = {Helicity content and tokamak applications of helicity},
author = {Boozer, A H},
abstractNote = {Magnetic helicity is approximately conserved by the turbulence associated with resistive instabilities of plasmas. To generalize the application of the concept of helicity, the helicity content of an arbitrary bounded region of space will be defined. The definition has the virtues that both the helicity content and its time derivative have simple expressions in terms of the poloidal and toroidal magnetic fluxes, the average toroidal loop voltage and the electric potential on the bounding surface, and the volume integral of E-B. The application of the helicity concept to tokamak plasmas is illustrated by a discussion of so-called MHD current drive, an example of a stable tokamak q profile with q less than one in the center, and a discussion of the possibility of a natural steady-state tokamak due to the bootstrap current coupling to tearing instabilities.},
doi = {10.2172/5628601},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/5628601}, journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu May 01 00:00:00 EDT 1986},
month = {Thu May 01 00:00:00 EDT 1986}
}