Abstract
Analytical high poloidal beta equilibria for toroidally axisymmetric plasmas with arbitrary aspect ratio and elongation are described. These equilibria that can describe a transition from nondivertor to divertor configuration are exact solutions of the Grad-Shafranov equation when the toroidal current density is quasiuniform. Generally, these are high poloidal beta equilibria, limited by the appearance of a natural inboard poloidal field null. Some of their properties, including the nonuniformity of the poloidal magnetic field in the poloidal direction, the safety factor profile and the magnetic shear profile near the separatrix, the parameter dependence of the poloidal beta βp and εβp, as well as the toroidal beta βT on the aspect ratio and the elongation of the magnetic surface, are discussed. Applications to experiments of the Tokamak Fusion Test Reactor (TFTR) [Sabbagh et al., Phys. Fluids B3, 2277 (1991)] are particularly analyzed.
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