Three-dimensional magnetized and rotating hot plasma equilibrium in a gravitational field

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Abstract

We present analytic and numerical solutions for three-dimensional magnetized axisymmetric equilibria confining rotating hot plasma in a gravitational field. Our solution to the full Shafranov-Grad equation can exhibit strong equatorial plane localization of the plasma density and current, resulting in disk equilibria for the plasma density. We find that a toriodal magnetic field is sometimes necessary to find a equilibrium in the presence of gravity for many cases of interest.

*Work supported by the US Department of Energy grants DE-FG02-91ER-54109 at MIT and DE-FG02-04ER54739 at UCSD \& by an International Career Grant from Vetenskapsr{\aa}det.

Authors

  • Peter J. Catto

    • Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC-MIT)
    • MIT Plasma science \& Fusion Center
    • Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC-MIT), Cambridge, USA

  • Sergei Krasheninnikov

    • UCSD
    • University of California at San Diego

  • Istvan Pusztai

    • Department of Applied Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
    • Chalmers University of Technology, Applied Physics
    • Department of Applied Physics, Chalmers University of Technology