ANALYTICAL THEORY OF DRIFT WAVES AND DRIFT-ALFVEN WAVES IN TOKAMAKS

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作者
LEE, YC [1 ]
CHEN, L [1 ]
机构
[1] PRINCETON UNIV,PLASMA PHYS LAB,PRINCETON,NJ 08540
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.42.708
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
摘要
The collisionless drift wave and drift-Alfvén wave instabilities in a sheared magnetic field are considered using the complex transformation technique of Antonsen. It is shown that no unstable bounded eigensolutions for the finite-β radial eigenmode equations exist. We also present a more general technique based on the wave-flux conservation and find, furthermore, that the convective amplification of drift waves in the electrostatic limit can be anomalously large, which could lead to enhanced transport in tokamaks. © 1979 The American Physical Society.
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