Kinks and Tearing Modes in Simple Configurations
- 1 October 1971
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review A
- Vol. 4 (4) , 1554-1560
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.4.1554
Abstract
A plane slab of current-carrying plasma is generally shown to be stable against ideal magnetohydrodynamical modes. It is shown that some of the stability criteria appearing in the literature and contradicting this fact can be brought to bear on the stability of the tearing mode. In this connection, simple stability diagrams are shown for the tearing mode in plane and cylindrically symmetric force-free magnetic fields.Keywords
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