Published April 1985
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Journal article
Nonlinear drift tearing mode - hard onset and stabilization mechanisms
Creators
- 1. Institut Kosmicheskikh Issledovanii, Moscow, USSR
Description
A nonlinear theory is derived for the development of magnetic perturbations in collisionless configurations with magnetic shear. The dynamics of the ions and of the electrostatic fields, which determine the stabilization of the mode, is incorporated in the analysis of the evolution of the instability. The drift tearing mode is found to have metastable properties: in the nonlinear stage, even perturbations of finite amplitude which are stable in the linear stage may grow. 9 references
Additional details
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- JETP Lett. (Engl. Transl.)
- Journal Volume
- 41
- Series
- JETP Lett. (Engl. Transl.).
- Journal Page Range
- 387-391
- ISSN
- 0021-3640
- CODEN
- JTPLA
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- United States
- INIS RN
- 17070736
- Subject category
- S70: PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY;
- Descriptors DEI
- COLLISIONLESS PLASMA; NONLINEAR PROBLEMS; PLASMA DRIFT; TEARING INSTABILITY; WAVE PROPAGATION
- Descriptors DEC
- INSTABILITY; PLASMA; PLASMA INSTABILITY; PLASMA MACROINSTABILITIES
Optional Information
- Notes
- Cover-to-cover translation of Pis'ma v Zhurnal Ehksperimental'noj i Teoreticheskoj Fiziki (USSR).