Abstract

The dynamic problem of plasma equilibrium in a tokamak is considered taking into account the electromagnetic reaction of the vacuum vessel resistive wall. The currents induced in the wall during transient events contribute to the external magnetic field that determines the plasma shape and position. Accordingly, the plasma geometry must evolve so that the inductive excitation of the wall current would properly compensate for the resistive losses. Simultaneous consideration of these factors presents the main difficulty of the description. It is performed in a general form using the Green’s function method that guarantees the mathematical accuracy of expressions for the magnetic fields from each source. At the same time, it is desirable to minimize the related complications, which is one of the goals here. The starting point is the standard solution of the external equilibrium problem given by integral relating the poloidal magnetic flux to the magnetic field at the plasma boundary. In the evolutionary problem, the additional equations for the plasma-wall electromagnetic coupling are transformed to an equation with a similar integral over the wall, but with either the time derivative of the poloidal magnetic flux or the wall current density in the integrand. The mentioned similarity allows to use the already developed techniques, which makes this formulation compact and convenient. It provides the basis for extension of the existing analytical theory of equilibrium to the case with non-circular plasma and wall.

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