Adjective
Of, pertaining to, or shaped like a poloid.
(physics) Between the poles of a magnet.
Source: en.wiktionary.org;Heliotron: A stellarator in which a helical coil is used to confine the plasma, together with a pair of poloidal field coils to provide a vertical field. Source: Internet
Hopf coordinates The Hopf fibration can be visualized using a stereographic projection of ) direction, represented by the blue arrow, although the terms poloidal and toroidal are arbitrary in this flat torus case. Source: Internet
Ohmic heating ~ inductive mode Since the plasma is an electrical conductor, it is possible to heat the plasma by inducing a current through it; in fact, the induced current that heats the plasma usually provides most of the poloidal field. Source: Internet
Shown is the toroidal field and the coils (blue) that produce it, the plasma current (red) and the poloidal field produced by it, and the resulting twisted field when these are overlaid. Source: Internet
With the rise of the next 11-year sunspot cycle, differential rotation shifts magnetic energy back from the poloidal to the toroidal field, but with a polarity that is opposite to the previous cycle. Source: Internet