Medical Definition of Compact torus
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Any of a series of axially symmetric fusion configurations having closed flux surfaces (like a tokamak, not like a mirror machine), but having no material objects piercing the core (as do the toroidal field coils of a tokamak).
These devices have an inherently low aspect ratio, approximately unity. The most successful variants are the spheromak and the Field Reversed Configuration.
See: low aspect ratio, spheromak, field-reversed configuration.
(05 Jan 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Compact Torus
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