Inductive plasma current start-up by the outer vertical field coil in a spherical tokamak

Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion

Volumn 41, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1469-1483

  Mitarai, Osamu ^a  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC CURRENTS; ELECTRIC WAVEFORMS; INDUCTION HEATING; MAGNETIC FLUX; PLASMA CONFINEMENT; PLASMA HEATING; SOLENOIDS;

INDUCTIVE PLASMA CURRENT;

TOKAMAK DEVICES;

EID: 0033348594     PISSN: 07413335     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0741-3335/41/12/304     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Bathke C G, Jardin S C and Kessel C E 1992 An algorithm for determining EF coils from fixed-boundary equilibria applied to ARIES-III IEEE 14th Symp. on Fusion Engineering (San Diego, CA, October 1-3, 1991) (IEEE)
2. Chang V S et al 1997 Current initiation and sustainment in spherical tokamaks GA-A22795
3. Forest C B et al 1994 Phys. Plasmas 1 1568
4. _1998 The feasibility of ramp-up using NBCD and bootstrap current 1998 Japan-US Workshop on Spherical Tokamaks (University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, March 9-11, 1988)
5. Gryaznevich M et al 1998 Phys. Rev. Lett. 80 3972
6. Kavin A A et al 1997 Fusion Technology ed C Varandas and F Serra (Amsterdam: Elsevier)
7. Lloyd B et al 1991 Nucl. Fusion 31 2031
8. Menard J E et al 1997 Nucl. Fusion 37 595
9. Miller R L 1997 Phys. Plasmas 4 1062
10. _1998 Fusion Technol. 34 364
11. Mitarai O and Muraoka K 1996a Ignition analyses for burn control and diagnostics developments in ITER Nucl. Fusion 37 1523
12. _1996b Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 36 551
13. _1998 Ignition burn control and diagnostics in ITER Diagnostics for International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (New York: Plenum) p 93
14. _1999a A proposed set of diagnostics for core ignition burn control in a tokamak reactor Nucl. Fusion 39 725
15. _1999b Analyses of diagnostic failure effect and fail-safe ignited operation in a tokamak fusion reactor Fusion Technol. 36 194
16. Peng Y-K M and Stricker D J 1986 Nucl. Fusion 26 769
17. Peng Y-K M et al 1996 Fusion Technol. 30 1372
18. Robinson D C 1995 Trans. Fusion Technol. 27 144
19. _1999 Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 41 141
20. Robinson D C et al 1996 The way forward for the spherical tokamak American Nuclear Society Topical Meeting (Lagrange Park, IL: American Nuclear Society)
21. Rose D J and Clark M Jr 1965 Plasma and Controlled Fusion (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press)
22. Schultz J et al 1987 Poloidal field system analysis and scenario development for the TIBER/ITER MIT Plasma Fusion Center Report PFC/JA-87-41
23. _1989 Fusion Technol. 15 922
24. Spitzer J et al 1996 Fusion Technol. 30 1337
25. Stambaugh R D et al 1996 Fusion Technol. 30 1380
26. Sykes A 1997 Phys. Plasma 4 1665
27. Sykes A et al 1992 Nucl. Fusion 32 694
28. _1993 Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 35 1051
29. _1997 Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 39 B247
30. Takizuka T et al 1996 Threshold power and energy confinement for ITER 16th IAEA Fusion Energy Conference (Montréal, Canada, October 7-11, 1996) IAEA-CN-64/FP-20 2 795
31. Thorson T A et al 1998 Status and plans for the PEGASUS toroidal experiment Japan-US Workshop on Spherical Tokamaks (University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, March 9-11, 1998)
32. Toyama H et al 1998 Comparative studies of spherical tokamak and conventional tokamak: magnetic turbulence-induced transport 17th IAEA Fusion Energy Conf. (Yokohama, Japan, 19-24 October, 1998) IAEA-CN-69/EXP2/15
33. Tuszewski M 1988 Nucl. Fusion 28 2033
34. Yoshino R and Seki M 1997 Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 39 205
35. Zheng S B et al 1996 Phys. Plasmas 3 1176