Resistive instabilities in a tokamak
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- 1 April 1976
- journal article
- conference paper
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Physics of Fluids
- Vol. 19 (4) , 567-574
Abstract
Application of resistive instability theory shows that toroidal effects can stabilize the tearing mode in devices like the Princeton Large Torus. Contraction of the current channel is destabilizing. Finite fluid compressibility is crucial to this phenomenon.Keywords
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