Stabilization of an axisymmetric tandem mirror cell by a hot plasma component
- 1 November 1984
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Fluids
- Vol. 27 (11) , 2705-2710
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.864574
Abstract
A hot plasma component formalism is used for a symmetric tandem mirror cell to relate the precessional mode, well known from Astron experiments, to more standard magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) modes. The l=1 mode can be stabilized by conducting walls, while the higher l modes can be stabilized by finite Larmor radius. Such a configuration is free of remnant dissipative instabilities because all perturbations are positive energy excitations when stability is achieved. OFFKeywords
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