Bulletin of the American Physical Society
60th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics
Volume 63, Number 11
Monday–Friday, November 5–9, 2018; Portland, Oregon
Session CP11: Poster Session II: Basic Plasma Physics; Boundary, PMI, Proto-MPEX; International Tokamaks; Turbulence and Transport; Other Configurations; Z-pinch, Dense Plasma Focus and MagLIF (2:00pm-5:00pm)
Monday, November 5, 2018
OCC
Room: Exhibit Hall A1&A
Abstract ID: BAPS.2018.DPP.CP11.37
Abstract: CP11.00037 : High–Beta Relaxed Plasma Confinement in Field Reversed Configurations*
Abstract 
Presenter:
Philip J Morrison
(Univ of Texas, Austin)
Authors:
Wendell Horton
(Univ of Texas, Austin)
Philip J Morrison
(Univ of Texas, Austin)
Toshiki Tajima
(University of California, Irvine)
Plasmas with reversed magnetic fields and nonuniform rotational flows are ubiquitous in nature. In the MFE program these plasmas are created in Field-Reversed Confinement [FRC] systems1 Stability conditions are derived the dynamics formulated for models of the Norman FRC machine2. Cylindrical symmetric Grad-Sharfranov3 plasmas p ~ B2/2𝛍o are derived and simulated. High beta–hot ion FRC plasmas dynamics with differential rotation expressed with Poisson brackets for four fields describing both field line bending and the FLR stabilization. The simulations produce high ion temperature deuterium plasmas with a magnetic separatrix between the closed FRC and open SOL plasmas components.
1L. Schmitz, et al. Suppressed ion-scale turbulence in a hot high-beta plasma, Nature Communication, 2016 [7:13860 | DOI: 10.1038/ncomms13860]
2C. Copenhaver, Axisymmetric toroidal equilibrium with plasma flow, Phys Fluids 1983.
3A. J. Cerfon and P. Freidberg, Phys Plasmas 17, 032502, 2010.
*Supported Dept. of Energy DE-FG02-04ER54742 to Institute for Fusion Studies. The simulations performed by Lee Leonard and Greg Foss at Texas Advanced Computer Center.
To cite this abstract, use the following reference: http://meetings.aps.org/link/BAPS.2018.DPP.CP11.37
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