Steady State Tokamak Equilibria without Current Drive

K. C. Shaing; A. Y. Aydemir; Y. R. Lin-Liu; R. L. Miller

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.79.3652

Steady State Tokamak Equilibria without Current Drive

K. C. Shaing, A. Y. Aydemir, Y. R. Lin-Liu, R. L. Miller

Institute of Space and Plasma Sciences

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Abstract

Steady state tokamak equilibria without current drive are found. This is made possible by including the potato bootstrap current close to the magnetic axis. Tokamaks with this class of equilibria do not need seed current or current drive, and are intrinsically steady state.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3652-3655
Number of pages	4
Journal	Physical review letters
Volume	79
Issue number	19
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.79.3652
Publication status	Published - 1997 Nov 10

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