Plasmoids Formation During Simulations of Coaxial Helicity Injection in the National Spherical Torus Experiment

The formation of an elongated Sweet-Parker current sheet and a transition to plasmoid instability has for the first time been predicted by simulations in a large-scale toroidal fusion plasma in the absence of any preexisting instability. Plasmoid instability is demonstrated through resistive MHD sim...

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Published in:Physical review letters 2015-05, Vol.114 (20), p.205003-205003, Article 205003
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