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Violation of the Mercier criterion in reversed shear confinement configurations in tokamaks

T Ozeki, M Azumi, S Ishida, T Fujita1999年Plasma Physics and Controlled FusionIF 2.2出版社

The MHD stability in a tokamak, especially the Mercier criterion, is quite sensitive to the equilibrium parameters. In the paper, we solved the free-boundary equilibrium with hollow current profile and, in usual cases, the code gives the solution with enough accuracy. Through a careful re-examination of the equilibrium, however, it was found that the equilibrium accuracy was reduced for increasing q-profile hollowness and, near the magnetic axis, the plasma occasionally tended to the inverse D shape, which reduces the Mercier stability index. This resulted in the misleading output of the paper; that is, the Mercier criterion can be violated for the high inverse q profile even for q0 greater than 1. By the re-calculation of the Mercier criterion for equilibria with high accuracy, we conclude that, although the stability index reduces with increasing q0, the Mercier criterion is not violated. We acknowledge many colleagues who pointed out the importance of the equilibrium accuracy and suggested the re-examination of the stability calculation.

日本語訳

トカマクにおけるMHD安定性、特にメルシエ規準は、平衡パラメータに非常に敏感である。本論文では、中空電流分布を持つ自由境界平衡を解いたが、通常の場合、コードは十分な精度で解を与える。しかしながら、平衡を注意深く再検討した結果、q分布の中空度が増加するにつれて平衡精度が低下し、磁気軸付近ではプラズマが逆D形状になる傾向があり、これがメルシエ安定性指数を低下させることが判明した。このことが本論文の誤解を招く結果をもたらした。すなわち、q0が1より大きい場合でも、高い逆q分布に対してメルシエ規準が破られ得るというものである。高精度の平衡に対するメルシエ規準の再計算により、安定性指数はq0の増加とともに低下するものの、メルシエ規準は破られないと結論する。平衡精度の重要性を指摘し、安定性計算の再検討を提案してくださった多くの同僚に謝意を表する。

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