Preliminary conceptual design of a medium sized tokamak (IST-1)

Abstract

In this paper an attempt is made to estimate the main parameters of the Iranian superconducting tokamak as a medium sized tokamak. In the first stage, the production and confinement of ohmically heated plasma is considered. Considering the aim of the design and the kink stability limit, three main parameters are assumed to be known. Using the known theoretical, empirical scale laws and numerical solution of Grad–Shafranov equation for a D-shaped plasmas and also considering the correction terms due to triangularity of the torus cross section, other physical and geometrical parameters have been estimated. The magnetic flux surfaces, plasma pressure and toroidal current density profiles are found by solving of Grad–Shafranov equation as an eigenvalue problem using finite element method. The preliminary results are compared with some recent tokamaks now in operation in different research centers.