Equilibrium and stability of centrifugally confined plasmas
Abstract
Rapidly rotating mirror plasmas where the parallel component of the centrifugal force helps support pressure gradients along open field lines is an old idea that has been recently revived in the MCT experiment of Maryland and the magneto-Bernoulli experiment of FRC. Building upon the already considerable amount of work done on such configurations, we are continuing our equilibrium and stability calculations. We have already demonstrated the existence of equilibria with almost completely "detached" plasmas under certain approximations. We are examining the accessibility of these equilibria under more general equations of state and studying their stability against interchange and velocity-shear driven instabilities.
- Publication:
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APS Division of Plasma Physics Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- October 2003
- Bibcode:
- 2003APS..DPPCP1020G