A high temperature field reversed configuration (FRC) has been produced in the newly built, world's largest compact toroid (CT) facility, C-2, by colliding and merging two high-beta CTs produced using the advanced field-reversed theta-pinch technology. This long-lived, stable merged state exhibits the following key properties: (1) apparent increase in the poloidal flux from the first pass to the final merged state, (2) significantly improved confinement compared to conventional theta-pinch FRCs with flux decay rates approaching classical values in some cases, (3) strong conversion from kinetic energy into thermal energy with total temperature (T(e)+T(i)) exceeding 0.5 keV, predominantly into the ion channel. Detailed modeling using a new 2-D resistive magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) code, LamyRidge, has demonstrated, for the first time, the formation, translation, and merging/reconnection dynamics of such extremely high-beta plasmas. (C) 2011 American Institute of Physics. [doi: 10.1063/1.3574380]

Formation of a long-lived hot field reversed configuration by dynamically merging two colliding high-beta compact toroids

GIAMMANCO, FRANCESCO;Marsili P;PEGORARO, FRANCESCO;
2011-01-01

Abstract

A high temperature field reversed configuration (FRC) has been produced in the newly built, world's largest compact toroid (CT) facility, C-2, by colliding and merging two high-beta CTs produced using the advanced field-reversed theta-pinch technology. This long-lived, stable merged state exhibits the following key properties: (1) apparent increase in the poloidal flux from the first pass to the final merged state, (2) significantly improved confinement compared to conventional theta-pinch FRCs with flux decay rates approaching classical values in some cases, (3) strong conversion from kinetic energy into thermal energy with total temperature (T(e)+T(i)) exceeding 0.5 keV, predominantly into the ion channel. Detailed modeling using a new 2-D resistive magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) code, LamyRidge, has demonstrated, for the first time, the formation, translation, and merging/reconnection dynamics of such extremely high-beta plasmas. (C) 2011 American Institute of Physics. [doi: 10.1063/1.3574380]
2011
Guo, Hy; Binderbauer, Mw; Barnes, D; Putvinski, S; Rostoker, N; Sevier, L; Tuszewski, M; Anderson, Mg; Andow, R; Bonelli, L; Brandi, F; Brown, R; Bui, Dq; Bystritskii, V; Ceccherini, F; Clary, R; Cheung, Ah; Conroy, Kd; Deng, Bh; Dettrick, Sa; Douglass, Jd; Feng, P; Galeotti, L; Garate, E; Giammanco, Francesco; Glass, Fj; Gornostaeva, O; Gota, H; Gupta, D; Gupta, S; Kinley, Js; Knapp, K; Korepanov, S; Hollins, M; Isakov, I; Jose, Va; Li, Xl; Luo, Y; Marsili, P; Mendoza, R; Meekins, M; Mok, Y; Necas, A; Paganini, E; Pegoraro, Francesco; Pousa Hijos, R; Primavera, S; Ruskov, E; Qerushi, A; Schmitz, L; Schroeder, Jh; Sibley, A; Smirnov, A; Song, Y; Steinhauer, Lc; Sun, X; Thompson, Mc; Van Drie, Ad; Walters, Jk; Wyman, Md
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