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Efficiency of wave-driven rigid body rotation toroidal confinement

Abstract

The compensation of vertical drifts in toroidal magnetic fields through a wave-driven poloidal rotation is compared with compensation through the wave driven toroidal current generation to support the classical magnetic rotational transform. The advantages and drawbacks associated with the sustainment of a radial electric field are compared with those associated with the sustainment of a poloidal magnetic field both in terms of energy content and power dissipation. The energy content of a radial electric field is found to be smaller than the energy content of a poloidal magnetic field for a similar set of orbits. The wave driven radial electric field generation efficiency is similarly shown, at least in the limit of large aspect ratio, to be larger than the efficiency of wave-driven toroidal current generation. Published by AIP Publishing.

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hal-01515512 , version 1 (27-04-2017)

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J. M. Rax, R Gueroult, N. J. Fisch. Efficiency of wave-driven rigid body rotation toroidal confinement. Physics of Plasmas, 2017, 24 (3), ⟨10.1063/1.4977919⟩. ⟨hal-01515512⟩
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