Asymmetrical tearing mode in a collisional plasma
- 1 January 1979
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Plasma Physics
- Vol. 21 (1) , 101-107
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0032-1028/21/1/008
Abstract
It is shown that the use of an asymmetrical resistive layer in the variational study of the linear growth of the collisional tearing mode in Tokamaks yields a greater growth rate than the usual symmetrical one.Keywords
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