The reversed field pinch

L Marrelli, P Martin, ME Puiatti, JS Sarff… - Nuclear …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper reviews the research on the reversed field pinch (RFP) in the last three decades.
Substantial experimental and theoretical progress and transformational changes have been …

Bifurcation phenomena in magnetically confined toroidal plasmas

K Ida - Advances in Physics: X, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Bifurcation phenomena observed in turbulence and transport, in topology of magnetic field
and MHD, and the interplay between turbulence and MHD bifurcation in magnetically …

Observation of tearing mode deceleration and locking due to eddy currents induced in a conducting shell

BE Chapman, R Fitzpatrick, D Craig, P Martin… - Physics of …, 2004 - pubs.aip.org
Growth to large amplitude of a single core-resonant tearing mode in the Madison Symmetric
Torus [RN Dexter et al., Fusion Technol. 19, 131 (1991)] reversed-field pinch is …

Phase-locking of tearing modes in the reversed field experiment

R Fitzpatrick, P Zanca - Physics of Plasmas, 2002 - pubs.aip.org
A reversed field pinch RFP is a toroidal magnetic configuration for thermonuclear plasma
confinement characterized by a short and rapidly varying helical pitch of the magnetic field …

Analysis of phase locking of tearing modes in reversed field pinch plasmas

P Zanca, E Martines, T Bolzonella, S Cappello… - Physics of …, 2001 - pubs.aip.org
The reversed field pinch magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) is characterized by a broad
spectrum of interacting resistive tearing modes with poloidal mode number mainly m= 0, 1 …

Locked mode unlocking by rotating resonant magnetic perturbations in J-TEXT tokamak

H Jin, Q Hu, N Wang, B Rao, Y Ding, D Li… - Plasma Physics and …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
This study aimed to unlock the m/n= 2/1 locked mode (LM) performed in J-TEXT tokamak by
using rotating resonant magnetic perturbations (RMPs), where m and n are the poloidal and …

Tearing modes transition from slow to fast rotation branch in the presence of magnetic feedback

P Innocente, P Zanca, M Zuin, T Bolzonella… - Nuclear …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
The fast-slow-fast rotation frequency transitions of tearing modes under magnetic feedback
boundary conditions have been studied in some recent RFX-mod experiments performed at …

Nonlinear dynamo mode dynamics in reversed field pinches

R Fitzpatrick, EP Yu - Physics of Plasmas, 2000 - pubs.aip.org
The nonlinear dynamics of a typical dynamo mode in a reversed field pinch, under the action
of the braking torque due to eddy currents excited in a resistive vacuum vessel and the …

Design and analysis of halo current diagnostic for RFX-mod2

M Bonotto, R Cavazzana, D Abate… - … on Plasma Science, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
During its experimental campaign, the RFX-mod2 device, the upgrade of RFX-mod which is
currently in its manufacturing phase, is expected to explore both Reverse Field Pinch (RFP) …

The sine-Gordon equation in reversed-field pinch experiments

JL Shohet, BR Barmish, HK Ebraheem, AC Scott - Physics of Plasmas, 2004 - pubs.aip.org
The focal point of this paper is a nonlinear model which describes localized
magnetohydrodynamic modes in reversed-field pinch experiments. To date, nearly all …