ROTATIONAL STABILIZATION OF DRIFT TEARING MODES

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作者
STRAUSS, HR
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[1] Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, New York
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PHYSICS OF FLUIDS B-PLASMA PHYSICS | 1992年 / 4卷 / 01期
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10.1063/1.860448
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O35 [流体力学]; O53 [等离子体物理学];
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070204 ; 080103 ; 080704 ;
摘要
Drift tearing modes have a threshold DELTA' for instability, which is increased by sheared poloidal rotation. Sheared rotation becomes important for upsilon(theta)' greater-than-or-equal-to omega(*). The critical DELTA' is approximately linear in \upsilon(theta)'\. The linear stability of tearing modes is relevant to tokamak edge conditions at the L- to H-mode transition.
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