Robin Storer
Articles written in Pramana – Journal of Physics
Volume 62 Issue 5 May 2004 pp 1083-1089
Current drive for rotamak plasmas
Robin Storer Gunhild von Oertzen
Experiments which have been undertaken over a number of years have shown that a rotating magnetic field can drive a significant non-linear Hall current in a plasma. Successful experiments of this concept have been made with a device called rotamak. In its original configuration this device was a field reversed configuration without a toroidal magnetic field but with a vertical field to establish the MHD equilibrium. However, modifications have shown that current can also be driven if a central current-carrying rod is used to provide an applied toroidal field. The new rotamak has then a spherical tokamak magnetic field structure.
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