ON THE STABILITY OF STRICT EQUILIBRIUM OF PLASMA IN TWO-DIMENSIONAL MATHEMATICAL MODELS OF MAGNETIC TRAPS

Cover Page

Cite item

Full Text

Open Access Open Access
Restricted Access Access granted
Restricted Access Subscription Access

Abstract

The article presents an analysis of instabilities known from previous works in a two-dimensional mathematical model of plasma configuration equilibrium using the example of a toroidal magnetic trap “Galatea–Belt” straightened into a cylinder and possessing plane symmetry. It is established that the previously observed large values of the two-dimensional velocity of disturbances in the plane of the cylinder cross-section arise on the periphery of the configuration near its conventional boundary, do not grow with time, and are due to arbitrarily small values of density, which is not determined by the idealized model of strict equilibrium. By varying the density, it is possible to influence stability. Three-dimensional (corrugated along the axis of the cylinder) disturbances grow with time in accordance with the traditional Lyapunov instability. Calculations allow us to determine the dependence of its quantitative characteristics on the problem parameters.

About the authors

K. V. Brushlinskii

Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics

Email: brush@keldysh.ru
Moscow, Russia

V. V. Kriuchenkov

National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute)

Email: kriuchenkov.viacheslav@mail.ru
Moscow, Russia

E. V. Stepin

Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics

Email: eugene.v.stepin@gmail.com
Moscow, Russia

References

  1. Шафранов В. Д. // ЖЭТФ. 1957. Т. 33. № 3. С. 710–722.
  2. Grad H., Rubin H. // Proc. 2nd UN Int. Conf. on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy. Geneva. 1958. V. 319. P. 190–197.
  3. Брушлинский К. В., Стёпин Е. В. // Дифф. уравнения. 2022. Т. 58. № 8. С. 1112–1120.
  4. Брушлинский К. В., Крюченков В. В., Стёпин Е. В. // Труды МИАН. 2023. Т. 322, С. 58–70.
  5. Морозов А. И., Франк А. Г. // Физ. Плазмы. 1994. Т. 20. № 11. С. 982–989.
  6. Веденов А. А., Велихов Е. П., Сагдеев Р. З. // УФН. 1961. Т. 73. Вып. 4. С. 701–766.
  7. Кадомцев Б. Б. // Вопросы теории плазмы / ред. М. А. Леонтович. М.: 1963. Вып. 2. С. 132–176.
  8. Bateman G. MHD instabilities. Cambridge: MIT Press. 1978.

Supplementary files

Supplementary Files
Action
1. JATS XML

Copyright (c) 2024 Russian Academy of Sciences