Magnetic field integrability and the current closure condition
Magnetic fields with translational symmetry, axisymmetry, and helical symmetry are integrable. That is, they have good flux surfaces. The current closure condition, that ∮dl/B is a flux surface quantity, also holds. It is possible to construct magnetic fields with broken symmetry, which have nearly...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Physics of plasmas 1994-11, Vol.1 (11), p.3713-3715 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Magnetic fields with translational symmetry, axisymmetry, and helical symmetry are integrable. That is, they have good flux surfaces. The current closure condition, that ∮dl/B is a flux surface quantity, also holds. It is possible to construct magnetic fields with broken symmetry, which have nearly integrable magnetic fields. It is shown that for nearly integrable nonsymmetric fields, the current closure condition need not hold. |
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ISSN: | 1070-664X 1089-7674 |
DOI: | 10.1063/1.870907 |