Two-fluid flowing equilibria of compact plasmas
Two-fluid flowing equilibria of compact plasmas
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致密等离子体的二流体流动平衡
DOI:
10.1063/1.1388034
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发表时间:
2001
影响因子:
2.2
通讯作者:
A. Ishida
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作者:
L. Steinhauer;H. Yamada;A. Ishida
The properties of two-fluid flowing equilibria are explored. This is facilitated by limiting attention to compact toroids in a “stationary-energy” state with uniform density. Flowing equilibria are found to fall into two classes, force-free and non-force-free, referring to the absence or presence of a j×B force. The force-free class may have significant flows. Spheromaks are in this class. The non-force-free class is diamagnetic and has Alfvenic poloidal flows. Field reversed configurations (FRCs) are in this class. Both classes admit arbitrarily large equilibria. Both classes occupy certain “allowed” regions in “helicity space,” a two-dimensional parameter map with the electron and ion helicities as coordinates. Allowed regions for the two classes overlap; in the overlap region the non-force-free class is energetically favorable. This sheds light on the FRC-spheromak bifurcation observed in experiments. Two-dimensional analytic equilibria are also found that span both classes. These may play a role simil...
影响因子:
3.3
作者:
A. Gibson;T. Sekiguchi;K. Lackner;S. Bodner;R. Hancox
通讯作者:
A. Gibson;T. Sekiguchi;K. Lackner;S. Bodner;R. Hancox