[BOOK][B] Spheromaks: a practical application of magnetohydrodynamic dynamos and plasma self-organization

PM Bellan - 2000 - World Scientific
The following sections are included: The spheromak as a fusion reactor Accelerated
spheromaks Tokamak Fuel injection Helicity injection current drive in tokamaks Colliding …

Experimental identification of the kink instability as a poloidal flux amplification mechanism for coaxial gun spheromak formation

SC Hsu, PM Bellan - Physical review letters, 2003 - APS
The magnetohydrodynamic kink instability is observed and identified experimentally as a
poloidal flux amplification mechanism for coaxial gun spheromak formation. Plasmas in this …

Particle acceleration in kink-unstable jets

J Davelaar, AA Philippov, O Bromberg… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Magnetized jets in gamma-ray bursts and active galactic nuclei are thought to be efficient
accelerators of particles; however, the process responsible for the acceleration is still a …

Sustained spheromak physics experiment (SSPX): design and physics results

EB Hooper, RH Bulmer, BI Cohen, DN Hill… - Plasma Physics and …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Sustained Spheromak Physics Experiment (SSPX) was a high-temperature (T
e up to 0.5 keV) spheromak formed by coaxial helicity injection (CHI) and with plasma …

Systems and methods for compressing plasma

MG Laberge, DH Richardson - US Patent 8,537,958, 2013 - Google Patents
US8537958B2 - Systems and methods for compressing plasma - Google Patents US8537958B2
- Systems and methods for compressing plasma - Google Patents Systems and methods for …

On the jets, kinks, and spheromaks formed by a planar magnetized coaxial gun

SC Hsu, PM Bellan - Physics of plasmas, 2005 - pubs.aip.org
Measurements of the various plasma configurations produced by a planar magnetized
coaxial gun provide insight into the magnetic topology evolution resulting from magnetic …

Formation and sustainment of electrostatically driven spheromaks in the resistive magnetohydrodynamic model

CR Sovinec, JM Finn, D del-Castillo-Negrete - Physics of Plasmas, 2001 - pubs.aip.org
The nonlinear time-dependent equations of resistive magnetohydrodynamics are solved in
simply connected domains to investigate spheromak formation and sustainment with …

Solar coronal heating by relaxation events

PK Browning - Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2003 - aanda.org
A coronal heating model is proposed which predicts heating by a series of discrete events of
various energies, analogous to the observed range of events from large scale flares through …

MHD equilibria in a spheromak sustained by coaxial helicity injection

EB Hooper, LD Pearlstein, RH Bulmer - Nuclear fusion, 1999 - iopscience.iop.org
Spheromaks sustained by coaxial helicity injection differ from unsustained spheromaks in
the profiles of the ratio of current to magnetic field and of the safety factor. Ideal MHD …

Spheromak formation by steady inductive helicity injection

TR Jarboe, WT Hamp, GJ Marklin, BA Nelson… - Physical review …, 2006 - APS
A spheromak is formed for the first time using a new steady state inductive helicity injection
method. Using two inductive injectors with odd symmetry and oscillating at 5.8 kHz, a steady …