Characteristics of toroidal rotation pro�les in tokamak plasmas are studied under the in�uence of fast-ion losses due to a toroidal �eld (TF) ripple by using a one-dimensional multi-�uid transport code, TASK/TX. When a neutral beam (NB) is injected into a plasma, a part of fast ions is lost due to the effect of the TF ripple. The radial current then �ows inward in the bulk plasma to keep quasi-...

The profile and dissipation of the field excited by dynamic ergodic divertor (DED) coils in tokamak plasmas are calculated, and an estimate is made of the poloidal/toroidal velocities driven by this field. The coils are idealized as an inboard sheet current composed of a toroidal sequence of helical line current segments expanded in Fourier series with poloidal/toroidal mode numbers M/N , and m...

The propagation of electromagnetic radiation in free-space is described by the source-free Maxwells equations. In contrast to conventional solutions such as infinite-energy plane waves and Gaussian pulses, there exists a family of exact solutions which represent localised transmission of finite electromagnetic energy [1]. One such solution is known as the Focused Doughnut (FD) pulse a peculiar ...

Mie theory can be used to generate full-color simulations of atmospheric glories, but it offers no explanation for the formation of glories. Simulations using the Debye series indicate that glories are caused by rays that have suffered one internal reflection within spherical droplets of water. In 1947, van de Hulst suggested that backscattering (i.e., scattering angle theta = 180 degrees) coul...

An alternative experimental spectroscopic measurement of poloidal plasma rotation in toroidally confined plasmas is proven effective in the TCV tokamak. Charge exchange recombination measurements of the toroidal rotation profile over the full mid-plane plasma diameter are used to infer the complete bi-dimensional flow structure of the intrinsic C6+ impurity, which includes its poloidal componen...

Rotation of tokamak-plasmas, not at the mechanical equilibrium, is investigated using the Prigogine thermodynamic theorem. This theorem establishes that, for systems confined in rectangular boxes, the global motion of the system with barycentric velocity does not contribute to dissipation. This result, suitably applied to toroidally confined plasmas, suggests that the global barycentric rotatio...

INTRODUCTION The supertoroid-based representation of cardiac DT-MRI was previously shown to enhance cardiac myofiber structure characterization compared to ellipsoids, superquadrics and toroids [1]. The supertoroidal model is an evolution of the toroid-based representation and provides a new index of diffusivity the toroidal volume (TV) [2,3] and a new coefficient of anisotropy the toroidal cur...

Shapes of vesicles with toroidal topology are studied in the context of curvature models for the membrane. For two simplified curvature models, the spontaneous-curvature (SC) model and the bilayer-couple (BC) model, the structure of energy diagrams, sheets of stationary shapes and phase diagrams are obtained by solving shape equations for axisymmetric shapes. Three different sheets of axisymmet...