Rippling mode in tokamaks
- 1 December 1987
- journal article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Fluids
- Vol. 30 (12) , 3752-3756
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.866412
Abstract
It is shown that toroidicity has stabilizing effects on the rippling mode in tokamaks. For typical tokamak edge parameters, the instability as predicted in slab geometry is unlikely to exist.Keywords
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