Radial Structure of High-Mode-Number Toroidal Modes in General Equilibrium Profiles
- 17 October 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 73 (16) , 2200-2203
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.73.2200
Abstract
The problem of global radial envelope structure of high-mode-number toroidal modes in general equilibrium profiles is studied using the coordinate transformation formalism. It is shown that there exists a continuum of toroidal eigenmodes with well-localized radial structure.Keywords
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