Direct Measurement of Drift Wave Growth Rates
- 1 February 1970
- journal article
- conference paper
- Published by AIP Publishing in Physics of Fluids
- Vol. 13 (2) , 513-516
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1692947
Abstract
Resistive drift waves in a machine can be switched on and off by applying a potential to the aperture limiter. The exponential growth of the waves can be directly observed. The measured growth rates are slower than are predicted by the usual theories of collisional drift waves.
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