Current-driven drift waves in reversed field pinches
- 1 May 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Fluids
- Vol. 29 (5) , 1640-1650
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.865681
Abstract
Stability properties of current‐driven drift waves are examined in the parametric environment typical of the toroidal reversed field pinch. In particular, the effects of field‐aligned current, plasma beta, collisionality, and magnetic shear are examined. Under conditions leading to instability, transport effects are calculated, and found to be dominated by the electromagnetic nature of this instability.Keywords
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