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Poloidal Magnetic Field Topology for
Tokamaks with Current Holes
Julio Puerta, Pablo Martn and Enrique Castro
Departamento de Fsica, Universidad Simn Bolvar,
Apdo. 89000,Caracas 1080A, Venezuela.
USBLABORATORIO DE FSICA DE PLASMA
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The appearance of hole currents [1-3] in tokamaks seems to be very
important in plasma confinement and on-set of instabilities, and this
paper is devoted to study the topology changes of poloidal magnetic
fields in tokamaks. In order to determine these fields different models
for current profiles can be considered. It seems to us, that one of the
best analytic description is given by V. Yavorskij et. al. [3], which has
been chosen for the calculations here performed. Suitable analytic
equations for the family of magnetic field surfaces with triangularityand Shafranov shift are written down here. The topology of the
magnetic field determines the amount of trapped particles in the
generalized mirror type magnetic field configurations [4,5]. Here it is
found that the number of maximums and minimums of Bp depends
mainly on triangularity, but the pattern is also depending of the
existence or not of hole currents. Our calculations allow to compare
the topology of configurations of similar parameters, but with and
without hole currents. These differences are study for configurations
with equal ellipticity but changing the triangularity parameters.
Positive and negative triangularities are considered and compared
between them.
Abstract
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1.- INTRODUCTION
Linear treatment of equilibrium in Tokomaks is in ourknowledge well developed by Russian authors to get the famousGrad-Shafranov equations. Now, several types of heating or beaminjection and rf heating induce toroidal and poloidal plasma flowsand indeed non-linear terms become important. In the low velocity
approximation in axis-simmetry Tokamaks, a theory of non-linearequilibrium has been developed a new kind of Grad-Shafranov Vequation including triangularity and ellipticity[1,2,3]
In general it is very difficult the non-linear treatment due tothe appearance of two complex differential equations like Grad-
Shafranov and Bernoulli types. Now considering the H-modeoperation when turbulence and vorticity are very low [7,8] it isjustifiable to treat the non-linear situation as a first approximationin the low vorticity limit, in order to calculate the poloidalmagnetic field topology in Tokamaks in the hollow current limitand compare for the case no hole current exist.
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Now is useful to point out that we use the orthogonal set of naturalcoordinates as defined elsewhere [fig.1] to make the calculation ofthe poloidal magnetic field. As is it well known, this coordinate
system form a natural basis for better development of transporttheory and stability theory due to the fact, that one of thecoordinates lies in the magnetic surface and the another one, isorthogonal and therefore, in equilibrium, parallel to the pressuregradient.
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Figure 1: Cross section of the tokamak magnetic surface showing thereference curves for the coordinates used in the text.
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2.- Theory
The non-linear MHD equations for equilibrium is
In this equation only the main term of the pressure tensor has beenconsidered. Using this equations and the vorticity defined by,
21c
v v = v v j B pV V v rrr r r
v[ ! v
r r
(1)
(2)
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and following the procedure as in the linear case we found
where
Now as demonstrated elsewhere in our basis coordinates
* 2 ( )
4
Fc
Rx
H ]
] VT H( !
* 2 2
4
2
*
2
( ) ( )( ) ( )
4
( )
cc I
I
z
T
] ]] V ]
T ] ]x x
( ! x x
x x x
(!
x x x
%
( )I RBN] !
( ) ( )F F] W!% %
(3)
(4)
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3.) Poloidal Magnetic Field
Now it is well known that ellipticity and triangularity are
important parameters for tokamaks plasmas because their
affect in general the efficiency of this facilities. Here thetechnique is prescribing and in order to
calculate the flux function using the G-S equation. In our
case we consider the magnetic field as given and
calculating all parameters using the knowledge on the
surfaces.
( )I ]
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On the other hand the analytical form of the along the middle
line through the minor axis is also given in terms ofa
VP !
4.) Poloidal current density equations. Using Amperes law
in the linear MHD approximation we get
(5)
(6)pJC
!v1
Now considering stationary equilibrium
we obtain
(7)NN JtJJ p !
4B J
c
T v !
r r
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Where it is well known, where is no component of orthogonal
to the magnetic surfaces.In the study state equilibrium we have
0J !
r
(8)
and considering axisymmetry we get
0p pJ Sin
J Js R
J
W
K
UO
x ! x %
(9)
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Now Sin(Uis defined as
RSin
s WU
x ! x %
(10)
and we can rewrite (9) in the from
p Pp
J J RJs R s
W
W
Ox x x x %(11)
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where we used here the notation of the new coordinates defined
in previous paper. Equation (11) can be also writes
1
p
p
RJR
J s
W
W
O ! x x %
(12)
integrating (12) along and arbitrary magnetic surface yield
11 1 1
0
exp[ ] ( )
sp p
p
R J R J J ds s
R RW WO Q! | (13)
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if we consider the reference curve
1 1
4I
p
s p
s
BB J
cN
TO
W
x ! x %
(16)
equation (11) and (12) can be formerly solved and written in theform
11
0
exp
sp
p s
R BB ds
RO W
!
- (17)
this equation allows us the calculation of for any prints without the
poloidal flux-function .
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5. Calculation without hole
Now in order to show something interesting numerical result, we
choose elliptic surfaces with shift and triangularity. The toroidalcurrent density along the central line (z = 0) is [29]
0
12 ; = ; =1, 2, 3, 4....
1
j
j
a
N RR R
W W
RW
!
-
%
%(18)
where is defined by
1 mR RW ! % (19)
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With is each point on the - reference curve which here
coincide with the outer point in each magnetic surface, and
is the radius of the minor magnetic surfaces
W
mR
1R
2 2 00
2 20 0
0
, cos2
, 24
m
aTR R a
aE Tz E a sin sin sin
P U P P U P
P U P U P U U
! (
! (20)
where
21 0, 0 mR R a
a
P U P P
VP
! ! (
!
0 mR R a( ! 2
1 0mR R aW P P! | (%
(21)
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Now putting in terms of and , we have sQ P U
2 2 2
0 0 0
32 2 22 2
0 0
4 2 cos(3 ),
2 cos( ) cos(2 ) 4 1 cos(2 sin ( )s
o
E T T R
a E T T
P P UP U
P U P U P U U
!
-
(22)
and
0
, exp , d
U
Q P U Q P U U
!
- (23)
where
'2
,1
m m m
m Q P U P
U Px x
! x x
(24)
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and defined by the slope of the magnetic field line
z
mr
P
P
U
U
xx
! xx
(25)
Now from (20) and (21), we determine in the form
0
1 3 22 2
0
4 1
2s
o
TR Z Z R
E a T R Z
U UU U UU
U U
PO
P P
! ! -
(26)
and therefore ( along the reference line) can becalculated if is prescribed for this line. In fact, using
equation (16) we obtain a differential equation that can be
solved for and combining this result with the value of
calculated elsewhere [19] we achieve
1p
Bp
B
JN
JN pB
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1
1 1,
exp[ ( , ) ] ,, , ,
p
p
B R Rd
B R R
P U P PQ P U U Q P U
P U P U P U! !
When the form of is not know, and can be determined
(27)
pB JN
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In figure 3 it is shown the dimensionless poloidal field for , with
and without hole. It is good to see, that in the case with a hole
current profile a deeper depression in the poloidal magnetic field
profile appear grater than for the case without the hole. That meansa better confinement will be achieved. Similar behavior is observed
in figures 4 and 5, but in the case of the figure 4 a better
confinement is achieved with the hole current profile when the
ellipticity goes higher, that shows the importance of this parameters.
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Fig.2 Toroidal density current ellipticity k and triangularits
along the major radius through the minor magnetic
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Fig.3 Dimensionless poloidal magnetic field around with hole
and with out a magnetic surfaces. The value = r correspond to
the inners point of the magnetic surface and = 0 is the outward
point.
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Fig.4 Dimensionless poloidal magnetic field around a
magnetic surfaces with and without hole for different
ellipticisties.
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Fig.5 Dimensionless poloidal magnetic field around a magnetic
surfaces with and without hole for different tringularities.
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