Plasma shape optimization for EAST tokamak using orthogonal method*

Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 51677051) and the Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Chen Yuan-Yang1, Bao Xiao-Hua1, †, Fu Peng2, Gao Ge2
       

Reconstructed plasma equilibrium of shoot 56573 at 5 s by off-line EFIT code. The blue solid line denotes the plasma boundary and the gray dashed lines denote poloidal flux surfaces. The top-outer squareness is defined by sqto = CD/BD, where D is the middle point of AB.