Exact magnetohydrodynamic equilibria with flow and effects on the Shafranov shift

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSLETA.2003.09.005MaRDI QIDQ1409358zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors G. N. Throumoulopoulos, G. Poulipoulis, G. Pantis, H. Tasso

Publication date 13 October 2003

Published in Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0306176

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05)

Abstract: Exact solutions of the equation governing the equilibrium magetohydrodynamic states of an axisymmetric plasma with incompressible flows of arbitrary direction [H. Tasso and G.N.Throumoulopoulos, Phys. Pasmas {�f 5}, 2378 (1998)] are constructed for toroidal current density profiles peaked on the magnetic axis in connection with the ansatz $S=-ku$, where $S=d/du[varrho(dPhi/du{)}^2]$ ($k$ is a parameter, $u$ labels the magnetic surfaces; $varrho(u)$ and $Phi(u)$ are the density and the electrostatic potential, respectively). They pertain to either unbounded plasmas of astrophysical concern or bounded plasmas of arbitrary aspect ratio. For $k=0$, a case which includes flows parallel to the magnetic field, the solutions are expressed in terms of Kummer functions while for $keq0$ in terms of Airy functions. On the basis of a tokamak solution with $keq0$ describing a plasma surrounded by a perfectly conducted boundary of rectangular cross-section it turns out that the Shafranov shift is a decreasing function which can vanish for a positive value of $k$. This value is larger the smaller the aspect ratio of the configuration.

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