Title
Magnetic coil system for the TCABR tokamak
Date Issued
01 January 2002
Access level
open access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Vannucci A.
Degasperi F.
Galvão R.
Kuznetsov Y.
Sanada E.
Nascimento I.
Universidad de São Paulo
Publisher(s)
Sociedade Brasileira de Fisica
Abstract
In this work, we discuss the preliminary analysis of some disruptive plasma discharges in the TCABR tokamak, operating in the high density limit. The Fourier analysis of the MHD activity was greatly facilitated because the magnetic coils inside the TCABR were installed as to take into consideration the toroidal geometry of the system, in a straightforward manner. What we have observed is that the m = 3, 4 and 7 MHD components dominate during almost the whole discharge duration, whereas the m = 2 MHD mode increased substantially just before the occurrence of a major disruption. Also, we could estimate the angular velocity of the magnetic islands, which was observed to increase up to three times just before the major disruption.
Start page
30
End page
33
Volume
32
Issue
1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física de plasmas y fluídos
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-0036013592
Source
Brazilian Journal of Physics
ISSN of the container
01039733
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