A different approach to the MHD equilibrium — mentioned by rolph

Thu, 14 Nov 2019 22:53:09 GMT

https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.00622 [2019] " Equations describing plasma equilibria are derived from the total energy of the system. The MHD equilibrium is shown to hold even for systems where the magnetic field may locally vanish. Through conservation of helicity, confinement is shown to be intimately related to electromagnetic tension. For an axisymmetric device, the presence of a magnetic field or current circling the axis is shown to be destabilising. This provides a simple explanation for the poor performance of some devices for which MHD predicts stability" there is a cadence between…

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A different approach to the MHD equilibrium — mentioned by Azrael3000

Thu, 14 Nov 2019 21:31:21 GMT

As this paper is from 2015 and I can't claim to understand it, is the follow up paper by the first author [0] the reason why it actually doesn't work? [0]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1808.00622

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A different approach to the MHD equilibrium — mentioned by rolph

A different approach to the MHD equilibrium — mentioned by Azrael3000