Pulsed High Beta Plasmas
Proceedings of the Third Topical Conference Held at Ukaea Culham Laboratory, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, U.K., 9-12 September 1975
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Pulsed High Beta Plasmas
Proceedings of the Third Topical Conference Held at Ukaea Culham Laboratory, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, U.K., 9-12 September 1975
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Pulsed High Beta Plasmas contains the proceedings of the Third Topical Conference on High Beta Plasmas held in Oxfordshire, UK, on September 9-12, 1975. The papers explore various aspects of pulsed high beta plasmas and cover topics such as reversed field pinches; mass flow stabilization of plasma confined by helical magnetic fields; cross-field instabilities in theta-pinch plasmas; and soft X-ray emitting plasma structures during the main neutron emission of plasma foci. Experimental observations of the self-reversal of a toroidal magnetic field in pinches are also presented. This book is comprised of 98 chapters and begins with a discussion on experimental results concerning a high beta stellarator, followed by a review of toroidal theta-pinch theory. The reader is then introduced to relaxation of toroidal discharges; equilibrium and stability of a diffuse high-beta Tokamak; spectroscopic studies of high beta plasma; and pulsed radiation from focused plasmas. Subsequent chapters explore the compression and kink instabilities of reversed field pinches; self-inductance changes in a plasma focus; interactions of high-energy plasma clusters with a longitudinal magnetic field; and electromagnetic implosion of large-diameter liners. The linear theta pinch as a 14-neutron source is also described. This monograph will be a valuable source of information for physicists.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Pulsed High Beta Plasmas
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- PREFACE
- INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
- CHAPTER 1. THE HIGH BETA STELLARATOR, A TOROIDAL CONFINEMENT SYSTEM
- CHAPTER 2. REVIEW OF TOROIDAL θ-PINCH THEORY
- CHAPTER 3. REVERSED FIELD PINCHES
- CHAPTER 4. RELAXATION OF TOROIDAL DISCHARGES
- CHAPTER 5. PLASMA FOCUS
- CHAPTER 6. SCREW PINCHES AND HIGH BETA TOKAMAKS WITH CIRCULAR CROSS-SECTION
- CHAPTER 7. SCYLLAC FEEDBACK STABILIZATION EXPERIMENTS
- CHAPTER 8. OPTICAL DIAGNOSTICS ON SCYLLAC
- CHAPTER 9. INVESTIGATIONS OF THE m = 2 MODE ON HIGH-BETA-STELLARATORISAR Tl-B
- CHAPTER 10. TIME-DEPENDENT CALCULATIONS OF EQUILIBRIUM AND STABILITY PROBLEMS IN SCYLLAC AND TOKAMAK GEOMETRIES
- CHAPTER 11. EQUILIBRIUM AND STABILITY OF A DIFFUSE HIGH-BETA TOKAMAK
- CHAPTER 12. MASS FLOW STABILIZATION OF PLASMA CONFINED BY HELICAL MAGNETIC FIELDS
- CHAPTER 13. MHD SIMULATION OF HIGH-BETA TOKAMAKS USING FLUX COORDINATES
- CHAPTER 14. TOKAMAK TRANSPORT AT LARGE POLOIDAL BETA, CONSIDERING MHD STABILITY LIMITS
- CHAPTER 15. ROTATING THETA-PINCHES
- CHAPTER 16. EQUILIBRIUM AND STABILITY OF THETA-PINCH PLASMA IN MODIFIED TOROIDAL MULTIPLE MIRROR FIELD
- CHAPTER 17. NONLOCAL ANALYSIS OF CROSS-FIELD INSTABILITIES IN THETA-PINCH PLASMAS
- CHAPTER 18. POST-IMPLOSION ANOMALOUS TRANSPORT ASSOCIATED WITH THE LOWER-HYBRID DRIFT INSTABILITY'
- CHAPTER 19. HYBRID-KINETIC MODEL FOR COLLISIONLESS HIGH— β PLASMAS
- CHAPTER 20. NUMERICAL STUDIES OF THETA-PINCH IMPLOSION INCLUDING CLASSICAL AND ANOMALOUS TRANSPORT PROCESSES'
- CHAPTER 21. NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF THE LOWER HYBRID DRIFT INSTABILITY
- CHAPTER 22. STABILITY ANALYSIS OF SHARP-BOUNDARY VLASOV-FLUID SCREW-PINCH EQUILIBRIA
- CHAPTER 23. A NUMERICAL APPROACH FOR FINDING STABLE MHD EQUILIBRIA
- CHAPTER 24. STAGED THETA PINCH EXPERIMENTS
- CHAPTER 25. PLASMA BEHAVIOUR IN STRAIGHT AND HELICAL THETA-PINCHES WITH LOW COMPRESSION RATIO
- CHAPTER 26. IMPLOSION MEASUREMENTS IN A HIGH VOLTAGE, LARGE DIAMETER, MEDIUM DENSITY THETA-PINCH
- CHAPTER 27. CHARACTERISTICS OF HIGH-DENSITY THEAT-PINCHES SEEDED WITH SELECTED HIGH-Z ELEMENTS
- CHAPTER 28. APPLICATION OF REVERSED ULTRA-FAST THETA-PINCH TO A TOKAMAK PLASMA
- CHAPTER 29. DETAILED OBSERVATIONS ON THE DYNAMICS AND HEATING OF A LINEAR THETA-PINCH
- CHAPTER 30. A DYNAMIC MODEL OF GROSS PLASMA MOTION IN SCYLLAC
- CHAPTER 31. THE EFFECT OF MAGNETIC FORCES ON HIGH BETA PLASMA COLUMNS
- CHAPTER 32. THE EFFECT OF MAGNETIC FORCES ON HIGH BETA PLASMA COLUMNS
- CHAPTER 33. DYNAMIC STABILIZATION OF THE M = l MODE ON A Z-DISCHARGE
- CHAPTER 34. THE DYNAMIC STABILISATION OF INSTABILITIES IN A TOROIDAL PINCH DISCHARGE (TDSX)
- CHAPTER 35. STABILITY AND DIFFUSION OF THE ZT-1 REVERSED-FIELD PINCH
- CHAPTER 36. HIGH BETA PLASMA CONFINEMENT IN REVERSED FIELD PINCH (ETL TPE—1)
- CHAPTER 37. EXPERIMENTS ON PROGRAMMED AND NATURALLY RELAXING RFP CONFIGURATIONS
- CHAPTER 38. STABILITY OF PINCHES WITH A REVERSED FIELD IN HBTX I
- CHAPTER 39. THE EFFECT ON CONFINEMENT OF AN UNSTABLE CENTRAL REGION IN A REVERSE FIELD PINCH
- CHAPTER 40. MHD TURBULENCE MODELS FOR THE REVERSED FIELD PINCH
- CHAPTER 41. LINEAR AND NON-LINEAR CALCULATION OF THE TEARING MODE IN REVERSED FIELD PINCHES
- CHAPTER 42. EQUILIBRIUM, STABILITY AND CONFINEMENT IN THE ELMO BUMPY TORUS
- CHAPTER 43. GUIDING CENTER PLASMA STABILITY OF THE BUMPY θ PINCH
- CHAPTER 44. TOROIDAL EQUILIBRIA OF REVERSED FIELD PINCH
- CHAPTER 45. STUDIES OF THE GAS-EMBEDDED Z-PINCH
- CHAPTER 46. EVOLUTION OF REVERSED FIELD PINCH CONFIGURATIONS
- CHAPTER 47. NUMERICAL INVESTIGATION OF REVERSED FIELD PINCHES
- CHAPTER 48. HYBRID MODEL STUDIES OF MAGNETIC FIELD DIFFUSION IN HIGH-/3 PINCHES
- CHAPTER 49. REVERSE FIELD CONFIGURATIONS WITH MINIMUM POTENTIAL ENERGY
- CHAPTER 50. NUMERICAL COMPUTATIONS FOR SCREW-PINCH EXPERIMENTS
- CHAPTER 51. NUMERICAL STUDIES OF THE LINEAR THETA PINCH
- CHAPTER 52. ENDLOSS FROM A SLENDER HIGH-BETA PLASMA COLUMN CONTAINED IN A LINEAR SOLENOID
- CHAPTER 53. EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF END LOSSES FROM A LOW ENERGY THETA-PINCH
- CHAPTER 54. SPECTROSCOPIC STUDIES OF HIGH BETA PLASMA
- CHAPTER 55. EXPERIMENTS ON THE PLASMA EQUILIBRIUM WITH A CLOSED HELICAL MAGNETIC AXIS (ASPERATOR-K)
- CHAPTER 56. LASER-PLASMA INTERACTION IN THE SCYLLA I—C THETA PINCH
- CHAPTER 57. PLASMA CONTAINMENT IN A TOROIDAL BICUSP (TORMAC)
- CHAPTER 58. TOROIDAL LINE CUSP THEORY AT PRINCETON
- CHAPTER 59. OBSERVATIONS OF SOFT X-RAY EMITTING PLASMA STRUCTURES DURING THE MAIN NEUTRON EMISSION OF PLASMA FOCI
- CHAPTER 60. EXPERIMENTS ON TURBULENCE IN PLASMA FOCUS
- CHAPTER 61. RECENT EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS OF PLASMA FOCUS RESEARCH AT STUTTGART
- CHAPTER 62. PULSED RADIATION FROM FOCUSED PLASMAS
- CHAPTER 63. ABSORPTION OF CO2-LASER RADIATION IN A HYPOCYCLOIDAL-PINCH PLASMA
- CHAPTER 64. EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATIONS OF THE SELF REVERSAL OF TOROIDAL MAGNETIC FIELD IN PINCHES
- CHAPTER 65. NEW RESULTS FROM ZETA
- CHAPTER 66. ION TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENTS ON THE ZT-1 REVERSED FIELD PINCH
- CHAPTER 67. STUDIES OF THE ION TEMPERATURE AND TOTAL RADIATED ENERGY FROM PINCHES IN HBTX 1
- CHAPTER 68. TUDY OF THE REVERSED FIELD PINCH ON HBTXI USING THOMSON SCATTERING
- CHAPTER 69. OPTICAL AND ELECTRICAL STUDIES OF THE COMPRESSION AND KINK INSTABILITIES OF REVERSED FIELD PINCHES
- CHAPTER 70. INTERFEROMETRY AND MHD TURBULENCE MEASUREMENTS IN TOROIDAL PINCHES
- CHAPTER 71. ANALYTIC COMPUTATION OF SELF-INDUCTANCE CHANGES IN A PLASMA FOCUS
- CHAPTER 72. INTERACTIONS OF HIGH ENERGY PLASMA CLUSTERS WITH A LONGITUDINAL MAGNETIC FIELD
- CHAPTER 73. YIELD ENHANCEMENT OF THE PLASMA FOCUS I
- CHAPTER 74. THE NRL LINUS PROGRAM
- CHAPTER 75. ELECTROMAGNETIC IMPLOSION OF LARGE DIAMETER LINERS
- CHAPTER 76. LINER COMPRESSION OF A TOROIDAL HIGH-β PLASMA
- CHAPTER 77. RESULTS OF SPICA
- CHAPTER 78. LOCAL TOROIDAL AND POLOIDAL CURRENT DENSITY MEASUREMENTS IN A HIGH-0-TOKAMAK PLASMA
- CHAPTER 79. EXPERIMENTS ON HIGH BETA TOKAMAK WITH SMALL ASPECT RATIO
- CHAPTER 80. EXPERIMENTS IN THE LAUSANNE BELT PINCH
- CHAPTER 81. PLASMA STABILITY IN THE BELT-PINCH AT HIGHER TEMPERATURES
- CHAPTER 82. TERP, A NON CIRCULAR TOROIDAL PINCH
- CHAPTER 83. EFFECTS OF THE INITIAL CONDITIONS ON THE ACHIEVEMENT OF STABLE EQUILIBRIA IN A BELT-PINCH EXPERIMENT
- CHAPTER 84. PRODUCTION OF SHOCK HEATED WEAKLY COMPRESSED HIGH TEMPERATURE PLASMAS IN THE HIGH VOLTAGE BELT PINCH
- CHAPTER 85. A NEW CONCEPT FOR MEGA-VOLT SHOCK COMPRESSION AND MILLISE CONDCONFINEMENT IN THE BELT PINCH
- CHAPTER 86. TOROIDAL EQUILIBRIUM OF NON-CIRCULAR SHARP BOUNDARY PLASMAS SURROUNDED BY FORCE-FREE FIELDS
- CHAPTER 87. DECAY AND PROFILE OF THE TOROIDAL PLASMA CURRENT IN A SCREW PINCH
- CHAPTER 88. DIFFUSION PROCESSES IN HIGH-BETA PLASMAS INCLUDING NEUTRAL GAS AND IMPURITY EFFECTS
- CHAPTER 89. INITIAL DYNAMICS, EQUILIBRIUM, AND HEATING OF TOROIDAL BELT PINCHES
- CHAPTER 90. NONLINEAR MHD INSTABILITIES IN ELONGATED CYLINDERS
- CHAPTER 91. STABILITY OF HIGH -/3TOKAMAKS WITH ARBITRARY ELONGATED CROSS SECTIONS
- CHAPTER 92. SCYLLAC FUSION TEST REACTOR DESIGN
- CHAPTER 93. REACTOR BURNING CALCULATIONS FOR A MODEL REVERSED FIELD PINCH
- CHAPTER 94. SOME DESIGN PARAMETERS OF A SCREW-PINCH REACTOR
- CHAPTER 95. HIGH DENSITY LINEAR SYSTEMS FOR FUSION POWER
- CHAPTER 96. THE LINEAR THETA PINCH AS A 14-NEUTRON SOURCE
- CHAPTER 97. TECHNICAL ASSESSMENT OF THE POTENTIALS OF PULSED HIGH-BETA PLASMA DEVICES AS CTR RADIATION TEST FACILITIES
- CHAPTER 98. BIBLIOGRAPHY ON REVERSED FIELD PINCHES: 1958-1975
- CONFERENCES
- AUTHOR INDEX