Toroidal mode coupling effects on drift wave stability
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- 1 August 1978
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Physics of Fluids
- Vol. 21 (8) , 1366-1374
Abstract
Modified drift wave dispersion relations and shear stabilization criteria are derived from an analysis of the radial drift wave equations coupled in azimuthal mode numbers through the toroidal effects of ion magnetic drifts and trapped electrons.Keywords
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