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磁化同轴枪放电装置可以产生高传输速度、高电子密度的球马克, 在可控核聚变、高能量密度物理以及天体物理等领域均得到了广泛关注. 基于球马克形成阈值理论, 通过对放电图像的拍摄以及光、电、磁信号的诊断分析, 本文主要研究了磁化同轴枪操作参数对球马克产生及等离子体特性的影响. 实验结果发现: 除放电电流和偏置磁通的比值以外, 受送气时长控制的气体分布长度同样是球马克产生的关键. 电极间通道内较长的气体分布可以使放电产生集中承载电流的等离子体环, 该环能够在足够强的磁压力推动下完成磁场拉伸与重联以形成球马克. 增加放电电流可以同时带来球马克传输速度、电子温度以及密度的提升, 而增加送气量仅对电子密度提升具有正面影响, 球马克性能优化的关键在于提升电容器组向等离子体环的能量馈入.Spheromak plasma formed by a magnetized coaxial plasma gun possesses high propagation velocity and electron density, which has been extensively investigated, for it has a variety of applications, such as fueling of fusion reactor, magnetized target fusion, and labratory simulations of astrophysical phenomena. Formation and optimization of the gun-type spheromak are studied by investigating the discharge characteristics of the gun and the scaling of plasma parameters with various operation conditions. Based on the spheromak formation mechanism, several significant operation parameters are identified, including peak value of gun current, bias flux, gas-puffed mass and the length of neutral gas distribution inside the gun channel: this length can be controlled by adjusting the time delay between gas injection and discharge of the capacitor bank to initiate gas breakdown and for a long time delay the current path distribution inside the gun channel can be characterized by a moving plasma ring which carries almost all of the gun current. Under a sufficient pressure of the self-generated field, the moving plasma ring with freezed toroidal field pushes the bias field into the vacuum chamber, the twisted field lines are then broken, reconnected, and thus forming a free spheromak. The injected gas is desired to exist only in the gun channel: if downstream region of the gun is filled with neutral gas, a weakly ionized and cold spheromak will be formed, which is not beneficial to practical applications. The multiple current path phenomenon is observed using two spatially separated magnetic coils inside the gun channel, excepting for the plasma ring, there are a stagnant current path and a reversed current path separately located in upstream and middle region of the gun channel. Development of the upstream current path is due to the residual charged particles deteached from the tail of accelerated plasma ring and the unswept netural particles, which reduces the energy injected into the plasma ring from capacitor bank, and thus having a negative effect on the performance of spheormak. The axial propagation velocity of spheromak, electron temperature and density are shown to increase with the capacitor bank voltage rising, which can be attributed to the elevation in energy injected into the plasma ring. Only higher electron density is obatined by increasing the gas-puffed mass, and the propagation velocity and electron temperature are observed to decrease. The energy injected into the plasma ring is independent of the gas-puffed mass, and electron density is elevated with gas-puffed mass increasing. Since the frequency of electron impact ionization increases, electrons undergo more collisions and transfer more energy to other particle species, thus the thermal energy of electrons decreases.
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Keywords:
- magnetized coaxial plasma gun /
- spheromak /
- plasma /
- magnetic field
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图 3 磁化同轴枪放电电流、电压与以及光电二极管信号波形图
Fig. 3. Representative gun current, voltage and photodiodes traces.
图 4 球马克环向与轴向磁场的径向分布 (1 G = 10–4 T)
Fig. 4. Radial profiles of toroidal and axial magnetic field in spheromak (1 G = 10–4 T).
图 7 球马克传输速度与充电电压、送气量的关系
Fig. 7. Spheromak propagation speed versus capacitor-bank charge voltage and gas-puffed mass.
图 8 电子密度与充电电压、送气量的关系
Fig. 8. Electron density versus capacitor-bank charge voltage and gas-puffed mass.
图 9 注入能量与充电电压、送气量的关系
Fig. 9. Injected energy versus capacitor-bank charge voltage and gas-puffed mass.
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