Equilibrium of the kink source experiment
Abstract
The kink source experiment (KSX) was conceived of as a method of injecting helicity into a spheromak making special use of the m = 1 helical Taylor state. It has a Z pinch as a helicity generating source, connected to a flux conserver through an entrance region. Since the entrance region is a long (length diameter) cyclinder, the magnetic field should be close to the helical Taylor state, which is the minimum energy configuration of a magnetized plasma in an infinite cylinder with no net flux. Modeling the actual fields in the entrance region of the KSX using zer-beta ideal MHD equilibrium theory is described.
- Publication:
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Presented at the 7th US Symp. on Compact Toroid Res
- Pub Date:
- May 1985
- Bibcode:
- 1985ctr..sympR....M
- Keywords:
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- Magnetic Field Configurations;
- Mathematical Models;
- Spheromaks;
- Taylor Instability;
- Zeta Pinch;
- Helical Flow;
- Magnetic Fields;
- Magnetohydrodynamic Stability;
- Plasma Flux Measurement;
- Plasma Physics;
- Simulation;
- Plasma Physics