Simulations of magnetically confined plasmas reveal a self-regulating stabilizing mechanism
Phys.org June 4, 2018 Helical plasma flow in the core of a tokamak in a nonlinear simulation. Red depicts positive values and blue depicts negative values of the poloidal velocity stream function. The black arrows illustrate the direction of the plasma flow within a toroidal cross section. (Figure shows a quarter of the torus.) Credit: … Read more