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Diamagnetic equilibrium of spherical torus obtained in a two-fluid model with flow

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 December 2006

T. KANKI
Affiliation:
Department of Maritime Science and Technology, Japan Coast Guard Academy, 5-1 Wakaba, Kure, Hiroshima 737-8512, Japan
M. NAGATA
Affiliation:
Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Hyogo, 2167 Shosha, Himeji 671-2201, Japan

Abstract

Two-fluid flowing equilibrium configurations of a helicity-driven spherical torus (HD-ST) in the realistic region including the spherical flux conserver and the coaxial helicity source are numerically determined by using the combination of the finite difference and the boundary element methods. It is found from the numerical results that the ultra low-$q$ HD-ST with diamagnetic toroidal field and high-$\beta$ (volume average $\beta$ value, $\langle\beta\rangle\cong 18\%$) can be obtained by reversing the toroidal field over the whole region and by increasing the toroidal ion flow up to the Alfv${\rm \acute e}$n Mach number $M_{\rm A}\cong 0.7$. The ion diamagnetic drift velocity is larger than the ${\bf E}\times {\bf B}$ drift velocity and has the same direction.

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Copyright
2006 Cambridge University Press

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