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In ideal MHD, the magnetic flux is advected by the plasma motion, freezing flux-surfaces into the flow. An MHD equilibrium is reached when the flow relaxes and force balance is achieved. We ask what classes of MHD equilibria can be accessed from a given initial state via smooth incompressible ideal motion. It is found that certain boundary displacements are formally not supported. This follows from yet another investigation of the Hahm--Kulsrud--Taylor (HKT) problem, which highlights the resonant behaviour near a rational layer formed by a set of degenerate critical points in the flux-function. When trying to retain the mirror symmetry of the flux-function with respect to the resonant layer, the vector field that generates the volume-preserving diffeomorphism vanishes at the identity to all order in the time-like path parameter.
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The structure of static MHD equilibria that admit continuous families of Euclidean symmetries is well understood. Such field configurations are governed by the classical Grad-Shafranov equation, which is a single elliptic PDE in two space dimensions. By revealing a hidden symmetry, we show that in fact all smooth solutions of the equilibrium equations with non-vanishing pressure gradients away from the magnetic axis satisfy a generalization of the Grad-Shafranov equation. In contrast to solutions of the classical Grad-Shafranov equation, solutions of he generalized equation are not automatically equilibria, but instead only satisfy force balance averaged over the one-parameter hidden symmetry. We then explain how the generalized Grad-Shafranov equation can be used to reformulate the problem of finding exact three-dimensional smooth solutions of the equilibrium equations as finding an optimal volume-preserving symmetry.
The CFETR baseline scenario is based on a H-mode equilibrium with high pedestal and highly peaked edge bootstrap current, along with strong reverse shear in safety factor profile. The stability of ideal MHD modes for the CFETR baseline scenario has been evaluated using NIMROD and AEGIS codes. The toroidal mode numbers (n=1-10) are considered in this analysis for different positions of perfectly conducting wall in order to estimate the ideal wall effect on the stability of ideal MHD modes for physics and engineering designs of CFETR. Although, the modes (n=1-10) are found to be unstable in ideal MHD, the structure of all modes is edge localized. Growth rates of all modes are found to be increasing initially with wall position before they reach ideal wall saturation limit (no wall limit). No global core modes are found to be dominantly unstable in our analysis. The design of $q_{min}>2$ and strong reverse shear in $q$ profile is expected to prevent the excitation of global modes. Therefore, this baseline scenario is considered to be suitable for supporting long time steady state discharge in context of ideal MHD physics, if ELMs could be controlled.
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