Self-Generated Toroidal Flow in a High-Beta Compact Toroid with Mirror Configuration

Authors :: Y. Hirayama
Y. Matsuzawa
To. Takahashi
Ts. Takahashi
Yuuki Komoriya
Tomohiko Asai
Naoki Yamamoto
Source :: Fusion Science and Technology. 55:87-90
Publication Year :: 2009
Publisher :: Informa UK Limited, 2009.
Abstract: In the field-reversed configuration (FRC) plasma, rotational instability with toroidal mode number n = 2 is known as a sole destructive MHD instability. Though an ideal FRC is unstable for higher n interchange instabilities, those have never been observed in past experiments. As a possible stabilized mechanism, self-generated toroidal rotation and its shear have been investigated experimentally.

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