Sawtooth stabilization through island pressure enhancement
- 1 February 1987
- journal article
- letter
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Fluids
- Vol. 30 (2) , 285-288
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.866375
Abstract
Using the compressible resistive magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equations in a finite aspect ratio cylinder, it is found that the m=1 mode (the sawtooth oscillation) can saturate when the pressure inside the magnetic island is higher than that of the original core plasma. The saturation condition is of the form Δβp≳8ε−1q=1(1−q0)2. This saturation effect can be used to actively stabilize sawteeth by heating or raising the density in the island. This mechanism, together with a stabilizing toroidal effect, may also explain recent lower‐hybrid wave‐driven tokamak experiments where the saturation of sawteeth has been observed.Keywords
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