Mechanism for rapid sawtooth crashes in tokamaks
- 10 August 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 59 (6), 649-652
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.59.649
Abstract
The standard picture of Kadomtsev reconnection process predicts sawtooth crash times that are longer than those observed in the present day large tokamaks. Ideal kink modes are investigated as a possible mechanism for these fast crashes, by use of fully toroidal, compressible, full magnetohydrodynamic equations. In systems with low shear, parallel-current and pressure-driven modes are identified well below the previously accepted poloidal beta limits. Linear and nonlinear calculations show good agreement with experiments and indicate that such modes may explain fast collapse times reported in the recent literature.Keywords
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