Experimental study of axisymmetric instability of inverse-dee and square tokamak equilibria

B. Lipschultz; S. C. Prager; T. H. Osborne; J. C. Sprott; M. Phillips

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.43.36

Experimental study of axisymmetric instability of inverse-dee and square tokamak equilibria

B. Lipschultz, S. C. Prager, T. H. Osborne, J. C. Sprott, M. Phillips

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Inverse-dee- and square-shaped equilibria are observed by experimentally mapping the magnetic-flux plot as a function of time in a tokamak with a 4-null poloidal divertor. Inverse-dee equilibria are observed to be unstable to the vertical magnetohydrodynamic axisymmetric instability on a time scale ∼1000 poloidal Alfvén times. Square equilibria are stable on the time scale available for observation. Instability growth is apparently slowed by field-shaping hoop and wall passive stabilization.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	36-39
Number of pages	4
Journal	Physical review letters
Volume	43
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.43.36
State	Published - 1979

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