Nonlinear evolution of magnetic island in a sheared magnetic field with uniform plasma background

1990 ◽  
Vol 32 (13) ◽  
pp. 1183-1208 ◽  
Author(s):  
M M Kuznetsova ◽  
L M Zelenyi
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Minjun J. Choi ◽  
Lāszlo Bardōczi ◽  
Jae-Min Kwon ◽  
T. S. Hahm ◽  
Hyeon K. Park ◽  
...  

AbstractMagnetic islands (MIs), resulting from a magnetic field reconnection, are ubiquitous structures in magnetized plasmas. In tokamak plasmas, recent researches suggested that the interaction between an MI and ambient turbulence can be important for the nonlinear MI evolution, but a lack of detailed experimental observations and analyses has prevented further understanding. Here, we provide comprehensive observations such as turbulence spreading into an MI and turbulence enhancement at the reconnection site, elucidating intricate effects of plasma turbulence on the nonlinear MI evolution.


1987 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-115
Author(s):  
B. Ghosh ◽  
K. P. Das

The method of multiple scales is used to derive a nonlinear Schrödinger equation, which describes the nonlinear evolution of electron plasma ‘slow waves’ propagating along a hot cylindrical plasma column, surrounded by a dielectric medium and immersed in an essentially infinite axial magnetic field. The temperature is included as well as mobile ion effects for ail possible modes of propagation along the magnetic field. From this equation the condition for modulational instability for a uniform plasma wave train is determined.


1969 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 651-660 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Sozou

It is shown that complex variable transformations, suitable for obtaining the solution for the field boundary of a system of line currents confined in one cavity by a perfectly conducting uniform plasma, can be used for obtaining the solution to the inverse problem where a perfectly conducting uniform plasma is confined in one cavity by a system of line currents. It is deduced that the minimum number of line currents for confining (not stably) a plasma is two. The equilibrium configurations for several special but simple cases are investigated and discussed.


2017 ◽  
Vol 83 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amnon Fruchtman

Penetration of a magnetic field into plasma that is faster than resistive diffusion can be induced by the Hall electric field in a non-uniform plasma. This mechanism explained successfully the measured velocity of the magnetic field penetration into pulsed plasmas. Major related issues have not yet been resolved. Such is the theoretically predicted, but so far not verified experimentally, high magnetic energy dissipation, as well as the correlation between the directions of the density gradient and of the field penetration.


1967 ◽  
Vol 45 (12) ◽  
pp. 4019-4038 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edmund K. Miller

A numerical investigation of the admittance of an infinite, circular cylindrical antenna excited at a circumferential gap of nonzero thickness, and immersed in a lossy incompressible magnetoplasma with the antenna parallel to the static magnetic field is described. A concentric free-space layer (the vacuum sheath) which separates the antenna from the external uniform plasma is included in the analysis to approximate the positive ion sheath which may form about a body at floating potential in a warm plasma. The numerical results for the antenna admittance show that: (1) in the absence of a sheath, a sharp admittance maximum is found at the electron cyclotron frequency, with the maximum more pronounced when the plasma frequency exceeds the cyclotron frequency than for the converse case; (2) the vacuum sheath shifts upward in frequency and reduces in amplitude the admittance maximum which occurs for the sheathless case at the cyclotron frequency; (3) a kink or minimum in the admittance is found at the plasma frequency.


1992 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 767-776 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Pisarczyk ◽  
A. Faryński ◽  
H. Fiedorowicz ◽  
P. Gogolewski ◽  
M. Kuśnierz ◽  
...  

In this article, we present the formation of an elongated plasma column by combining a laser plasma with an external magnetic field. The laser plasma is produced by irradiating solid targets with a focused Nd-glass laser. The targets were placed on the axis of the two, single-turn magnetic coils, which provided a magnetic field up to 500 kg in the target region. The expanding laser plasma is confined by the magnetic field and an elongated and uniform plasma column is formed on the axis of the coils. The plasma column emits strong, soft X-ray radiation. The pinhole photographs show that the plasma column is at least 5 mm long. To study the interaction of the expanding laser plasma with a magnetic field, the laser probing diagnostic was used.


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