Numerical study of the precessional instabilities in a symmetric tandem mirror with hot-electron end cells

DOI10.1063/1.864606zbMATH Open0554.76092OpenAlexW2076258350MaRDI QIDQ3217849FDOQ3217849

Authors: Kang T. Tsang, X. S. Lee, B. Hafizi, Thomas M. Antonsen 

Publication date: 1984

Published in: The Physics of Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.864606

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zbMATH Keywords

axial eigenmode equationhigh-beta long-thin equilibriumhot electron end cellsStability of the precessional ballooning modessymmetric tandem mirror

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability and instability of magnetohydrodynamic and electrohydrodynamic flows (76E25) Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow (76X05) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99)

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