Exact magnetohydrodynamic equilibria with flow and effects on the Shafranov shift

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2003-06-25

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0306176v2

Physics Letter A 317 (2003) 463-469

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Plasma Physics

13 pages, 2 figures. v2:Eq (3) has been corrected. A new figure (Fig. 2) has been added in order to illustrate u-contours in c

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Exact solutions of the equation governing the equilibrium magetohydrodynamic states of an axisymmetric plasma with incompressible flows of arbitrary direction [H. Tasso and G.N.Throumoulopoulos, Phys. Pasmas {\bf 5}, 2378 (1998)] are constructed for toroidal current density profiles peaked on the magnetic axis in connection with the ansatz $S=-ku$, where $S=d/d u [\varrho (d\Phi/du)^2]$ ($k$ is a parameter, $u$ labels the magnetic surfaces; $\varrho(u)$ and $\Phi(u)$ are the density and the electrostatic potential, respectively). They pertain to either unbounded plasmas of astrophysical concern or bounded plasmas of arbitrary aspect ratio. For $k=0$, a case which includes flows parallel to the magnetic field, the solutions are expressed in terms of Kummer functions while for $k\neq 0$ in terms of Airy functions. On the basis of a tokamak solution with $k\neq 0$ describing a plasma surrounded by a perfectly conducted boundary of rectangular cross-section it turns out that the Shafranov shift is a decreasing function which can vanish for a positive value of $k$. This value is larger the smaller the aspect ratio of the configuration.

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