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Wall thickness effect on the resistive wall mode stability in toroidal plasmas

Phys. Plasmas 12, 072504 (2005); doi:10.1063/1.1943347

Published 20 June 2005

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L.-J. Zheng and M. T. Kotschenreuther
Institute for Fusion Studies, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712
The effect of finite wall thickness on the stability of n=1 resistive wall modes in toroidal plasmas is investigated. A fusion reactor-relevant configuration is examined. The investigation employs a novel ideal-magnetohydrodynamics adaptive shooting code for axisymmetric plasmas, extended to take into account the wall thickness. Although finite wall thickness generally reduces the growth rate of the resistive wall modes, no contribution to stabilization is found to be made by the portion of the wall that is located beyond the critical position for perfectly conducting wall stabilization. Thus, when the inner side of the wall lies near the critical wall position, the scaling of the growth rate versus wall thickness in the realistic thick-wall calculation is significantly different from that of the usual thin-wall theory. The thin-wall estimate is relevant only when the wall is brought very close to the plasma and is not too thick. ©2005 American Institute of Physics
History: Received 8 March 2005; accepted 6 May 2005; published 20 June 2005
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KEYWORDS and PACS

Keywords
PACS
  • 52.35.Py
    Plasma macroinstabilities (hydromagnetic) e.g., kink, fire-hose, mirror, ballooning, tearing, trapped-particle, flute, Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities, etc
  • 52.40.Hf
    Plasma–material interactions; boundary layer effects
  • 52.55.Tn
    Ideal and resistive plasma MHD modes; kinetic modes
  • 52.55.Fa
    Tokamaks
  • 52.30.Cv
    Plasma magnetohydrodynamics including electron magnetohydrodynamics
  • YEAR: 2005

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