Plasma and Fusion Research

Volume 11, 2403097 (2016)

Regular Articles

Influences of Hall Effect on the Magnetohydrodynamic Behavior of Two Axially Colliding Field-Reversed Configurations
Kei MATSUZAKI, Shintaro KOIKE, Masahiro YANAGI, Naoki MIZUGUCHI1) and Toshiki TAKAHASHI
Division of Electronics and Informatics, Gunma University, Kiryu, Gunma 376-8515, Japan
1)
National Institute for Fusion Science, Toki, Gifu 509-5292, Japan
(Received 30 November 2015 / Accepted 26 April 2016 / Published 30 June 2016)

Abstract

We report here the simulation results of two colliding accelerated field-reversed configurations (FRCs). In our simulation code, we separately modeled the external magnetic field and that generated by plasma. By using a time-variable external magnetic field, we reproduced the translation of FRCs. Since the Hall effect is expected to play an important role in the magnetic reconnection research, we employed both the 2D resistive magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) model and the 2D resistive Hall-MHD model. We compare the simulation results and report on the changes in the properties of plasma.

Keywords

field-reversed configuration, translation, merging, magnetic reconnection, simulation, Hall MHD

DOI: 10.1585/pfr.11.2403097

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