Note on the ballooning criterion for multipoles

1 January 1980

journal article
letter
Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Fluids

Vol. 23 (1) , 228-230
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.862848

Abstract

An equation giving the critical pressure gradient for stability to ballooning modes is derived directly from the energy principle by specializing to displacements that do no bulk compression.

Keywords

PLASMA INSTABILITY
BALLOONING INSTABILITY
PRESSURE GRADIENTS
VARIATIONAL METHODS
MULTIPOLAR CONFIGURATIONS
EIGENVALUES
DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS

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