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polyill wrote:This D.K.Taylor, Jan 1961 paper suggests confinement gain from rotating the magnetic field in a cusp configuration.

That's awesome, thanks.

Ok thanks for showing me the Spitzer resistivity. It's exactly what I needed. I'm going to try to run a 1-d simulation based on that.

ok thanks. I looked a bit into magnetohydrodynamics. The thing I didn't find was how to calculate the electric resistivity of a plasma. Do you know how to calculate the electric resistivity of a plasma based on temperature and density ?

thank you for your answer

Simple question: what's the density distribution of a plasma cloud confined in a magnetic bottle?
On the plane perpendicular to the central axis, Is it normally distributed or is it uniformly distributed inside a circle or is it something more complicated?

I'd like to simulate the reactor which I described in the 1st, 5th and 8th post on this thread.
Does anyone know which free software to use to do 1D, 2D or 3D simulations?

The reactor I described above works similar to a Diesel engine. First Compression, then Ignition and then the energy is harnessed by Expansion. But instead of pistons we use magnetic fields and maintain spherical symmetry. During one Compression the magnetic field rotates several times. And during o...

Thanks for your answer. I still don't get how POPS works. Here's my idea for a fusion reactor (you can tell me how POPS is similar or different.): Use the system I described in the first post to magnetically confine a normally distributed "cold" plasma cloud. Use sensors and computers to keep the sh...

A solenoid field rotated about an axis normal to the field... You're probably picturing straight field lines, which is fine, but helical or circular field lines should also be considered. There are differences between them and I don't know yet which of them would be optimal. To work it would have t...

Here's a simple idea on how to magnetically confine a plasma ball without loosing particles like magnetic mirrors usually do. For simplicity let's assume mass density and pressure of the plasma approximately follow a normal distribution around the center. Apply a strong magnetic field which accelera...