Rippling modes in the edge of a tokamak plasma [electronic resource]
A promising resistive magnetohydrodynamic candidate for the underlying cause of turbulence in the edge of a tokamak plasma is the rippling instability. In this paper we develop a computational model for these modes in the cylindrical tokamak approximation and explore the linear growth and single-hel...
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| Language: | English |
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Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Oak Ridge, Tenn. :
Oak Ridge National Laboratory. ; distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Department of Energy,
1982.
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| Summary: | A promising resistive magnetohydrodynamic candidate for the underlying cause of turbulence in the edge of a tokamak plasma is the rippling instability. In this paper we develop a computational model for these modes in the cylindrical tokamak approximation and explore the linear growth and single-helicity quasi-linear saturation phases of the rippling modes for parameters appropriate to the edge of a tokamak plasma. Large parallel heat conduction does not stabilize these modes; it only reduces their growth rate by a factor scaling as k/sub parallel//sup -4/3/. Nonlinearly, individual rippling modes are found to saturate by quasi-linear flattening of the resistivity profile. The saturated amplitude of the modes scales as m/sup -1/, and the radial extent of these modes grows linearly with time due to radial Vector E x Vector B/sub 0/ convection. This evolution is found to be terminated by parallel heat conduction. |
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| Item Description: | Published through SciTech Connect. 02/01/1982. "ornl/tm-7989" "DE82007724" Carreras, B.A.; Callen, J.D.; Gaffney, P.W.; Hicks, H.R. |
| Physical Description: | Pages: 52 : digital, PDF file. |