Continuum damping of high-mode-number toroidal Alfvén waves
- 3 February 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 68 (5) , 596-599
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.68.596
Abstract
An asymptotic theory is developed to determine the continuum damping of short-wavelength toroidal Alfvén eigenmodes, which is essential for ascertaining thresholds for alpha-particle-driven instability in ignited tokamaks.Keywords
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