Published September 1984 | Version v1
Journal article

General equilibrium and stability properties of high-β tokamaks

Creators

  • 1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139

Description

An analytic approach to the ideal magnetohydrodynamic equilibrium and stability of large-aspect-ratio tokamak configurations in which the fluid and magnetic pressures are comparable, is developed. It is shown that these configurations are unstable against a pressure gradient driven internal mode whose threshold sets an upper limit to the ''second'' domain of stability

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Phys. Fluids
Journal Volume
27
Journal Issue
9
Series
Phys. Fluids.
Journal Page Range
2313-2318
ISSN
0031-9171