Session: compact toroids. I. Spheromaks and FRCs

fYear

1988

fDate

6-8 June 1988

Firstpage

65

Lastpage

69

Abstract

The following topics are dealt with: fast opening vacuum switches for high-power inductive energy storage, electric fields in decaying CTX spheromaks, pressure driven instability, magnetic force-free configurations, S-1 spheromak discharges, RACE experiment, reflection of accelerated plasma rings from conical electrodes, compact toroid formation and acceleration, MARAUDER, LSX FRC device, ignition-switched energy storage modules, plasma vessel design.<>

Keywords

collective accelerators; energy storage; energy storage devices; pinch effect; plasma instability; plasma switches; plasma toroidal confinement; LSX FRC device; MARAUDER; RACE experiment; S-1 spheromak discharges; compact toroid formation; conical electrodes; decaying CTX spheromaks; electric fields; fast opening vacuum switches; high-power inductive energy storage; ignition-switched energy storage modules; magnetic force-free configurations; plasma vessel design; pressure driven instability; reflection of accelerated plasma rings; Energy storage; Induction accelerators; Magnetic confinement; Plasma pinch; Plasma stability;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Plasma Science, 1988. IEEE Conference Record - Abstracts., 1988 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA, USA

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/PLASMA.1988.132257

Filename

132257