Resistive instabilities in a tokamak
- 1 April 1976
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Fluids
- Vol. 19 (4) , 567-574
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.861490
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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