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Stabilization of Tokamak Plasma by Lithium Streams

Author: L.E. Zakharov

Date of PPPL Report: August 2000

Published in: Physics of Plasmas 9 (November 2002) 4591-4595

The stabilization theory of free-boundary magnetohydrodynamic instabilities in tokamaks by liquid lithium streams driven by magnetic propulsion is formulated. While the conventional, wall-locked, resistive wall mode can be well suppressed by the flow, a new, stream-locked mode determines the limits of the flow stabilization.