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Simulating the effect of external helical magnetic fields on MHD stability of tokamak plasma

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The effect of external helical magnetic fields on the stability of a rotating plasma in an axially symmetric tokamak machine is simulated numerically. Threshold amplitude effects are investigated using the NFTC code for the complete nonlinear dynamical 3-D system of MHD equations.

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  1. Liu Hsiu-tsian
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  2. A. M. Popov
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The research was partially funded by Russian Foundation of Basic Research (grant 96-07-89110) and Ministry of Science grants 201.03.002 and 0201.03.003.

Translated from Chislennye Metody i Vychislitel'nyi Eksperiment, Moscow State University, pp. 4–14, 1998.

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Hsiu-tsian, L., Popov, A.M. Simulating the effect of external helical magnetic fields on MHD stability of tokamak plasma. Comput Math Model 10, 329–337 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02359084

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