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Negative-Triangularity Magnetic Configurations in T-15MD Tokamak

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The article focuses on a numerical analysis of the projected use of the T-15MD tokamak machine after its physical launch for generating a configuration with negative triangularity of the plasma filament cross section (an inverted D shape) on the installed magnetic field coils. The study is of interest in connection with recent experiments on several tokamaks that have demonstrated a distinct improvement achieved with such operating regimes compared with standard plasma containment configurations.

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  1. Kurchatov Institute, Moscow, Russia

    M. S. Gorbun & A. V. Melnikov

  2. Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MFTI), Dolgoprudnyi, Russia

    M. S. Gorbun & A. V. Melnikov

  3. National Research Nuclear University, Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (MIFI), Moscow, Russia

    A. V. Melnikov

  4. Faculty of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

    D. Yu. Sychugov

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Translated from Prikladnaya Matematika i Informatika, No. 65, 2021, pp. 8–14.

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Gorbun, M.S., Melnikov, A.V. & Sychugov, D.Y. Negative-Triangularity Magnetic Configurations in T-15MD Tokamak. Comput Math Model 32, 1–6 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10598-021-09512-3

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