Current-driven microinstabilities in a neutral sheet
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- 1 June 1981
- journal article
- conference paper
- Published by AIP Publishing in The Physics of Fluids
- Vol. 24 (6) , 1069-1076
Abstract
Computer simulation is used to investigate current-driven microinstabilities in a simple reversed field (neutral sheet) configuration. A long wavelength, predominantly electromagnetic, instability develops at the reversal point as a consequence of the lower hybrid drift instability, which is excited away from the reversal point where the density gradients are steep. The resulting anomalous resistivity is much smaller at the null point.Keywords
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