DRIFT WAVE-PROPAGATION AND CONVECTIVE WAVE GROWTH IN TOKAMAKS

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作者
HORTON, W [1 ]
机构
[1] UNIV TEXAS,FUS RES CTR,AUSTIN,TX 78712
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10.1088/0032-1028/21/5/003
中图分类号
O35 [流体力学]; O53 [等离子体物理学];
学科分类号
070204 ; 080103 ; 080704 ;
摘要
The propagation and convective growth of drift waves in Tokamak plasmas is investigated with ray trajectory methods. Calculation of the confinement condition for the rays is shown to lead to a shear stabilization criterion previously derived from normal mode theory. For confined ray trajectories quantization of the net change in wave phase leads to the eigen frequencies of the system.
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