| Title | Ballooning stability of axisymmetric plasmas with sheared equilibrium flows |
|---|---|
| Publication Type | Articolo su Rivista peer-reviewed |
| Year of Publication | 1989 |
| Authors | Bhattacharjee, A., Iacono Roberto, Milovich J.L., and Paranicas C. |
| Journal | Physics of Fluids B |
| Volume | 1 |
| Pagination | 2207-2212 |
| ISSN | 08998221 |
| Abstract | A WKB theory is formulated for large-n ballooning modes in axisymmetric, toroidal plasmas with sheared equilibrium flows. The validity of the standard ballooning representation is severely restricted in the presence of sheared toroidal flow, despite the fact that to leading order in (1/n), where n is the azimuthal number, the eigenmode equation contains only derivatives along a field line. Necessary and sufficient conditions for stability are obtained in a high-beta ordering for rigid toroidal rotation as well as field-aligned flows. © 1989 American Institute of Physics. |
| Notes | cited By 19 |
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| Citation Key | Bhattacharjee19892207 |
