Grad-Shafranov equation for non-axisymmetric MHD equilibria
This talk will present a novel structural property of non-degenerate, smooth 3D MHD equilibria.
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This talk will present a novel structural property of non-degenerate, smooth 3D MHD equilibria.
This is the final report for the DOE award DE-SC0021325, titled “Validation of Simulation Models for Wall-Connected Scrape off Layer Currents during MHD Activity in the HBT-EP Tokamak” for the period September 1, 2020 – May 31, 2023. This award is part of a broader collaborative project, which supported training of a PhD student at Columbia University under the joint supervision of Dr. Hansen and Columbia project members. The award supported research into computational models for plasma and 3D conducting structures in the vicinity relevant to tokamak disruptions and other mode activity (eg. RWMs) using the NIMROD, and PSI-Tet, codes.
While modeling a generic pulse transformer, we became interested in the possibility of electric sparks between winding layers in a solid encapsulant. We significantly modified a previously developed ALEGRA MHD model of a generic spark in lexan. The cumulative modifications are significant enough to report here. Possibly the most significant modification was a change in how the simulated spark is initiated from a thin initial channel. The change was from imposing an initial hot temperature to imposing a conductivity floor. The reasons and comparisons of results are included. The second significant change was to replace a fixed current rise rate with an external circuit model. We built a model specifically mimicking the distributed inductance and stray capacitance between the coil turns closest to the modeled spark. Excursions from nominal values examine the sensitivity of resulting behaviors to extreme capacitance and inductance values.
The objective of these notes is to demonstrate that the formulation of the MHD Boussinesq convection equations that follows the conventions of the turbulence community used in our previous work is consistent and compatible with the formulation from the convection community used in Busse and Pesch.
This is the final report for the DOE award DE-SC0021657, titled “Validation of Simulation Models for Wall-Connected Scrape off Layer Currents during MHD Activity in the HBT-EP Tokamak” for the period September 1, 2020 – April 30, 2025. This award is part of a broader collaborative project, which supported training of a PhD student at Columbia University under the joint supervision of Dr. Levesque and Dr. Hansen (on award DE-SC0021325). The award supported research into computational models for plasma and 3D conducting structures in the vicinity relevant to tokamak disruptions and other mode activity (eg. RWMs) using the NIMROD and PSI-Tet codes. Additional detail on progress in support of these tasks is provided below.
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