{"id":2778,"date":"2014-03-28T13:07:06","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T17:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/magnes\/?p=2778"},"modified":"2014-03-28T13:07:06","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T17:07:06","slug":"project-proposal-modeling-e-and-b-fields-of-a-toroidal-conductor-to-explore-tokamak-plasmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/magnes\/2014\/03\/28\/project-proposal-modeling-e-and-b-fields-of-a-toroidal-conductor-to-explore-tokamak-plasmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Proposal: Modeling E and B Fields of a Toroidal Conductor to Explore Tokamak Plasmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am interested in trying to determine why existing tokamaks (toroidal magnetic fusion reactors) use tori with the aspect ratios that they do.\u00a0 To determine this, I intend to model the electric and magnetic fields (and\u00a0<b>D <\/b>and <b>H<\/b>) of a solid toroidal conductor with a current flowing through it, and to examine how these fields change when the aspect ratio is varied.\u00a0 I will chose the material properties of the conductor based on fusion plasmas in operating reactors.\u00a0 Modeling the plasma as a solid seems reasonable due to the fact that tokamak plasmas do not change shape significantly during operation, and, other than some fluid dynamics disturbances, the plasma is relatively stable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am interested in trying to determine why existing tokamaks (toroidal magnetic fusion reactors) use tori with the aspect ratios that they do.\u00a0 To determine this, I intend to model the electric and magnetic fields (and\u00a0D and H) of a solid toroidal conductor with a current flowing through it, and to examine how these fields [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1773,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54056],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-derek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/magnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/magnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/magnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/magnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1773"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/magnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/magnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2780,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/magnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2778\/revisions\/2780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/magnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/magnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/magnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}