Rotational instabilities in the field-reversed configuration: Results of hybrid simulations

DOI10.1063/1.864254zbMath0513.76117OpenAlexW2041338735MaRDI QIDQ3659465

Douglas S. Harned

Publication date: 1983

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.864254

zbMATH Keywords

growth ratefinite-Larmor-radius fluid theoryion rotation below instability thresholdsquasineutral hybrid simultion coderotational instabilities in rigidly rotating field-reversed configuration equilibriaunstable m=2 modesunstable m>2 modes

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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