Stability of an Anisotropic High-Tokamak to Ballooning Modes
- 18 September 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 41 (12), 801-804
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.41.801
Abstract
We have applied the Kruskal-Oberman energy principle to a simple model of an anisotropic tokamak in which the pressure varies around flux surfaces. We show that the weighting of pressure towards regions of favorable curvature leads to a significant stabilization of the high- ballooning modes.R ballooning modeql
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