Alpha loss-cone Alfvén-wave instabilities in a sharp-boundary model of a tandem-mirror central cell

DOI10.1063/1.866704MaRDI QIDQ3786145zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors S. K. Ho, William McCay Nevins, Gary R. Smith, G. H. Miley

Publication date 1988

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1063/1.866704

zbMATH Keywords

Alfvén wavescylindrical, sharp-boundary plasmadiffusion-front methodmarginal-stability boundariestandem- mirror reactortandem-mirror central cell

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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