Abstract
A simulated annealing (SA) relaxation method is used for the calculation of high-beta reduced magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) equilibria in toroidal geometry. The SA method, based on artificial dynamics derived from the MHD Hamiltonian structure, is used to calculate equilibria of large-aspect-ratio and circular-cross-section tokamaks as well as toroidally averaged stellarators. Tokamak equilibria including incompressible poloidal rotations are obtained and the Shafranov shift is seen to increase nearly quadratically in the rotation speed. A mapping procedure between non-rotating and poloidally rotating equilibria is shown to explain the quadratic dependence of equilibria shift on rotation. Calculated stellarator equilibria are seen to agree reasonably with previous results. The numerical results demonstrate the first successful application of the SA method to obtain toroidal equilibria.
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