Analytical Study of the External Field for Non-Circular Tokamak with Multipole Moment Expansion Approach

摘要

An analytical study is made of the external field required to produce non-circular toroidal MHD equilibria. Here the external magnetic flux pattern is formulated with a series of multipole moments expanded around the magnetic axis. The present approach provides a common description of the external field characteristics of various devices rather than specifying location of poloidal coils. Furthermore, the preconceptual design of noncircular devices can be simplified since the arrangement of poloidal coil location is decoupled from the physics requirement. (ERA citation 06:001708)