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Modeling of the merging of two colliding field reversed configuration plasmoids.
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Physics of Plasmas . 2016, Vol. 23 Issue 6, p1-7. 7p. 1 Diagram, 2 Charts, 5 Graphs. - Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- The field reversed configuration (FRC) is one of the candidate plasma targets for the magnetoinertial fusion, and a high temperature FRC can be formed by using the collision-merging technology. Although the merging process and mechanism of FRC are quite complicated, it is thinkable to build a simple model to investigate the macroscopic equilibrium parameters including the density, the temperature and the separatrix volume, which may play an important role in the collisionmerging process of FRC. It is quite interesting that the estimates of the related results based on our simple model are in agreement with the simulation results of a two-dimensional magneto-hydrodynamic code (MFP-2D), which has being developed by our group since the last couple of years, while these results can qualitatively fit the results of C-2 experiments by Tri-alpha energy company. On the other hand, the simple model can be used to investigate how to increase the density of the merged FRC. It is found that the amplification of the density depends on the poloidal fluxincrease factor and the temperature increases with the translation speed of two plasmoids. Published by AIP Publishing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1070664X
- Volume :
- 23
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Physics of Plasmas
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 116598888
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4953101