Stability Limitations on High-Beta Tokamaks
- 11 April 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 38 (15) , 826-829
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.38.826
Abstract
Magnetohydrodynamic instabilities limit the material that can be contained in a tokamak. The nature of the dangerous kink and ballooning modes is investigated for a typical configuration. In high-beta systems the most dangerous instabilities are ballooning modes that form large convective cells concentrated in regions of unfavorable magnetic field-line curvature.Keywords
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