SHEAR, PERIODICITY, AND PLASMA BALLOONING MODES

被引:711
作者
CONNOR, JW
HASTIE, RJ
TAYLOR, JB
机构
[1] EURATOM-UKAEA Association for Fusion Research, Culham Laboratory, Abingdon, Oxon
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.40.396
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O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
A procedure which reconciles long parallel wavelength, characteristic of plasma instabilities, with periodicity in a sheared toroidal magnetic field is described. Applied to the problem of high-n ballooning modes in tokamaks it makes possible a full minimization of the potential energy functional δW and shows that previous calculations overestimated stability. © 1978 The American Physical Society.
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页数:4
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