Ideal magnetohydrodynamic stability of the NCSX (2007)
Fu, G. Y., Isaev, M., Ku, L. P., Mikhailov, M., Redi, M. H., Sanchez, R., ...
The ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) stability of the National Compact Stellarator Experiment (NCSX) is extensively analyzed using the most advanced three-dimensional MHD codes. It is shown that the...
Equilibrium and Stability of High-Beta Plasmas in Wendelstein 7-AS (2005)
Zarnstorff,M. C., Weller,A., Geiger,J., Fredrickson,E., Hudson,S., Knauer,J. P., ...
Equilibrium and Stability of High-Beta Plasmas in Wendelstein 7-AS (2005)
Zarnstorff, M. C., Weller, A., Geiger, J., Fredrickson, E., Hudson, S., Knauer, J. P., ...
Cooper,W. A., Margalet,S. F., Allfrey,S. J., Isaev,M. Y., Mikhailov,M. I., Shafranov,V. D., ...
In current-free stellarators, the parallel current density is normally too weak to drive global external kink modes. However, at finite values of beta, the bootstrap current (BC) can provide...
Cooper, W. A., Margalet, S. F., Allfrey, S. J., Isaev, M. Y., Mikhailov, M. I., Shafranov, V. D., ...
In current-free stellarators, the parallel current density is normally too weak to drive global external kink modes. However, at finite values of beta, the bootstrap current (BC) can provide...
Microinstability studies for the large helical device (2002)
Rewoldt, G., Ku, L. P., Tang, W. M., Sugama, H., Nakajima, N., Watanabe, K. Y., ...
Fully kinetic assessments of the stability properties of toroidal drift modes have been obtained for cases for the large helical device (LHD). This calculation employs the comprehensive linear...
Cooper, W. A., Margalet, S. F., Allfrey, S. J., Isaev, M. Y., Mikhailov, M. I., Shafranov, V. D., ...
In current-free stellarators, the parallel current density is normally too weak to drive global external kink modes. However, at finite values of beta, the bootstrap current (BC) can provide...
Recent Progress in MHD Stability Calculations of Compact Stellarators (2001)
Fu, G.Y., Ku, L.P., Redi, M.H., Kessel, C., Monticello, D., Reiman, A., ...
Physics Issues in the Design of Low Aspect Ratio, High-Beta, Quasi-Axisymmetric Stellarators (2001)
Zarnstorff, M.C., Berry, L.A., Boozer, A.H., Brooks, A., Cooper, W.A., Drevlak, M., ...
Physics of the compact advanced stellarator NCSX (2001)
Zarnstorff, M. C., Berry, L. A., Brooks, A., Fredrickson, E., Fu, G. Y., Hirshman, S., ...
Compact optimized stellarators offer novel solutions for confining high-beta plasmas and developing magnetic confinement fusion. The three-dimensional plasma shape can be designed to enhance the...
Ideal MHD stability calculations for compact stellarators (2001)
Sanchez, R., Isaev, M. Y., Hirshman, S. P., Cooper, W. A., Fu, G. Y., Jimenez, J. A., ...
Stability results for high-n ideal local pressure-driven instabilities (ballooning and interchange: modes) are calculated from the COBRA and TERPSICHORE codes and compared for several low aspect...
Drift mode calculations for the Large Helical Device (2000)
Rewoldt, G., Ku, L. P., Tang, W. M., Sugama, H., Nakajima, N., Watanabe, K. Y., ...
A fully kinetic assessment of the stability properties of toroidal drift modes has been obtained for a case for the Large Helical Device [A. Iiyoshi et al., Nucl. Fusion 39, 1245 (1999)]. This...
Physics issues in the design of high-beta, low-aspect-ratio stellarator experiments (2000)
Neilson, G. H., Reiman, A. H., Zarnstorff, M. C., Brooks, A., Fu, G. Y., Goldston, R. J., ...
High-beta, low-aspect-ratio ("compact") stellarators are promising solutions to the problem of developing a magnetic plasma configuration for magnetic fusion power plants that can be sustained in...
Magnetohydrodynamics stability of compact stellarators (2000)
Fu, G. Y., Ku, L. P., Cooper, W. A., Hirshman, S. H., Monticello, D. A., Redi, M. H., ...
Recent stability results of external kink modes and vertical modes in compact stellarators are presented. The vertical mode is found to be stabilized by externally generated poloidal flux. A simple...
Drift mode calculations in nonaxisymmetric geometry (1999)
Rewoldt, G., Ku, L. P., Tang, W. M., Cooper, W. A.
A fully kinetic assessment of the stability properties of toroidal drift modes has been obtained for nonaxisymmetric (stellarator) geometry, in the electrostatic limit. This calculation is a...
MHD calculations for MHH2 (1997)
Reiman, A. H., Ku, L. P., Monticello, D. A., Nuhrenberg, C., Cooper, W. A.
A survey of the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) properties of the quasi-axisymmetric configuration MHH2 has been performed using a suite of MHD codes: the PIES code at Princeton for studying loss of...