PLASMA CONFINEMENT BY LOCALIZED FEEDBACK CONTROLS,

Abstract

The problem of confining a plasma in a specified bounded spatial domain by means of feedback control forces applied over an outer shell of the domain is considered. Using a two-component fluid model for the plasma, various forms of feedback controls are derived by minimizing an instantaneous weighted mean outflow rate over a subregion of the shell. The effects of some of the derived feedback controls on plasma confinement are determined by experiments performed on a two-dimensional computer simulated plasma. (Author)

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1970
Accession Number
AD0708180

Entities

People

  • Paul Keng Chieh Wang

Organizations

  • University of California, Los Angeles

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computers
  • Computing Devices
  • Feedback
  • Geometry
  • Two Dimensional

Readers

  • Finite Element Method (FEM) for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)
  • Plasma Physics / Magnetohydrodynamics
  • Robotics and Automation.