Abstract
Setting up of a reversed field pinch (RFP) configuration and subsequet sustainment of the configuration are regarded as an example of self-organization in high-temperature plasmas. Dynamic process of the self-organization in RFP's is discussed based on experimental results. Time evolution of the poloidal and toroidal mode numbers has revealed that nonlinear coupling of m=1 resistive internal kink modes plays essential roles in both setting up and sustainment phase of the RFP configuration.The nonlinear coupling of the kink modes may also be related to early termination of the discharge, as well as to relaxation, transport and confinement.Further efforts are required for the quantitative comparative discussion of the theory and experiments.
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