Physics – Plasma Physics
Scientific paper
1997-09-16
Physics
Plasma Physics
latex, 16 pages, 1 figure available on request to the author (gthroum@cc.uoi.gr), to be published in J. Plasma Physics
Scientific paper
10.1017/S0022377897006338
The equilibrium of a resistive axisymmetric plasma with purely toroidal flow surrounded by a conductor is investigated within the framework of the nonlinear magnetohydrodynamic theory. It is proved that a) the poloidal current density vanishes and b) apart from an idealized case the pressure profile should vanish on the plasma boundary. For the cases of isothermal magnetic surfaces, isentropic magnetic surfaces and magnetic surfaces with constant density, the equilibrium states obey to an elliptic partial differential equation for the poloidal magnetic flux function, which is identical in form to the corresponding equation governing ideal equilibria. The conductivity, which can not be either uniform or a surface quantity, results however in a restriction of the possible classes of equilibrium solutions, e.g., for the cases considered the only possible equilibria with Spitzer conductivity are of cylindrical shape.
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