Theory and applications of the nonexistence of simple toroidal plasma equilibrium
Theory and applications of the nonexistence of simple toroidal plasma equilibrium
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简单环形等离子体平衡不存在的理论与应用
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1985
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H. Grad
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H. Grad
The basis of the theory of electrically conducting plasma in pressure balance with a magnetic field is a mathematically composite system with both real and imaginary characteristics. In 1967, it was pointed out that in a hypothetical equilibrium of nested toroidal pressure surfaces, the presence of real characteristics leads to contradiction except in certain specific symmetric cases. The real characteristics represent the propagation along magnetic field lines of a number of physical properties. Thus the discovered lack of pressure balance is not a special consequence of one idealized model but carries over broadly to a variety of physical refinements and generalizations. Indeed, the mathematical result has profound physical consequences which have gradually entered the field in the context of rational rotation number resonances and multiple helicities, island formation, and turbulence.