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- Title
A van der Pol coupled-oscillator model as a basis for developing a system for suppressing MHD instabilities in a tokamak.
- Authors
Semenov, I.; Mitrishkin, Yu.; Subbotin, A.; Vertinskiĭ, A.; Marusov, N.; Sushin, I.
- Abstract
The main parameters of tokamak discharges are known to be limited by large-scale MHD instabilities. Sometimes, the instabilities lead to a rapid (on time scales of tens of microseconds) disruption of the discharge current and to the release of all the energy stored in the plasma column at the discharge chamber wall. This process, which is called the disruptive instability, may have irreversible catastrophic consequences for the operation of a fusion reactor. In the present paper, a study is made of the dynamics of self-oscillations in systems of two and six van der Pol coupled oscillators. A van der Pol coupled-oscillator model is used to develop a multivariable feedback controller based on the combined principle of compensating for internal cross feedbacks within the object and introducing damping feedbacks in each control channel. By using mathematical simulation methods, it is shown that the controller designed guarantees the suppression of self-oscillations in a system of van der Pol oscillators over a fairly broad range of parameters of the object under control (and thereby provides the structural stability of the object). The nonlinear control system model makes it possible to suppress coupled MHD perturbations developing in a tokamak plasma.
- Subjects
TOKAMAKS; MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMIC instabilities; ELECTRIC discharges; OSCILLATIONS; SIMULATION methods &; models; PLASMA gases
- Publication
Plasma Physics Reports, 2006, Vol 32, Issue 2, p114
- ISSN
1063-780X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1134/S1063780X0602005X