Energy principle with global invariants for toroidal plasmas

A. Bhattacharjee; R. L. Dewar; D. A. Monticello

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.45.347

Energy principle with global invariants for toroidal plasmas

A. Bhattacharjee, R. L. Dewar, D. A. Monticello

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A variational principle is proposed for constructing equilibria with low free energy in toroidal plasmas in which relaxation is dominated by a tearing mode of single helicity. States with current density vanishing on the boundary are constructed. Theoretical predictions are compared with experimental data from reversed field pinches and tokamaks.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	347-350
Number of pages	4
Journal	Physical review letters
Volume	45
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.45.347
State	Published - 1980

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