Magnetohydrodynamic Stability of Flux-Conserving Tokamak Equilibria
- 11 April 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 38 (15), 829-832
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.38.829
Abstract
Large-scale magnetohydrodynamic instabilities of flux-conserving tokamak equilibria are studied computationally. Stable equilibria are found with up to 5% average . As is increased, the observed instabilities take on a strong ballooning character, concentrating near the outer edge of the torus with a mix of poloidal harmonics.
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