Spheromaks: A Practical Application Of Magnetohydrodynamic Dynamos And Plasma Self-organization
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Astrophysics
Author_Paul M Bellan
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Coronal
Dynamo
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Fusion
Magnetic Helicity
Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD)
Plasma
Relaxation
Reversed Field Pinch (RFP)
Self-Organization
Solar
Spheromak
Taylor
Tokamak
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- ISBN 9781860941412
- Publication Date: 24 Jan 2000
- Publisher: Imperial College Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Spheromaks are easily formed, self-organized magnetized plasma configurations that have intrigued plasma physicists for over two decades. Sometimes called magnetic vortices, magnetic smoke rings, or plasmoids, spheromaks first attracted attention as a possible controlled thermonuclear plasma confinement scheme, but are now known to have many other applications.This book begins with a review of the basic concepts of magnetohydrodynamics and toroidal magnetic configurations, then provides a detailed exposition of the 3D topological concepts underlying spheromak physics, namely magnetic helicity, Taylor relaxation, force-free equilibria, and tilt stability. It then examines spheromak formation techniques, driven and isolated configurations, dynamo concepts, practical experimental issues, diagnostics, and a number of applications. The book concludes by showing how spheromak ideas are closely related to the physics of solar prominences and interplanetary magnetic clouds.
