Stability of shear flow in a magnetized plasma
- 1 May 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Fluids
- Vol. 23 (5) , 939-941
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.863100
Abstract
By studying the eigenmode solutions and by calculating the evolution of an initial wavelet, it is shown that Alfvén waves in a magnetized plasma are stable even if the plasma possesses a longitudinal flow velocity v0 with a strong shear, provided the maximum flow velocity is less than twice the Alfvén speed. This result is discussed in the light of recent neutral beam injection experiments in tokamaks.Keywords
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