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The interface of a uniform plasma enveloped by the magnetic field of a system of line currents

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

C. Sozou
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Mathematics and Computing Science, The University, Sheffield

Abstract

It is shown that complex variable transformations, suitable for obtaining the solution for the field boundary of a system of line currents confined in one cavity by a perfectly conducting uniform plasma, can be used for obtaining the solution to the inverse problem where a perfectly conducting uniform plasma is confined in one cavity by a system of line currents. It is deduced that the minimum number of line currents for confining (not stably) a plasma is two. The equilibrium configurations for several special but simple cases are investigated and discussed.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1969

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