Effect of rational transform on the ohmically heated plasma in the WIIb stellarator
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- 1 February 1973
- journal article
- research article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Plasma Physics
- Vol. 15 (2) , 151-155
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0032-1028/15/2/007
Abstract
Instabilities of the plasma current have been observed when the transform near the plasma boundary is rational, whose strength decreases with increasing mode number. The t=y2 instability is sufficiently strong to limit the current attainable. The instabilities do not seem to depend strongly on other plasma parameters such as n and Te which can vary 50% from shot to shot. The variation of instability strength with t could be MHD in character.Keywords
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- Hydromagnetic Instability in a StellaratorPhysics of Fluids, 1965