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Hegna, C.C.; Callen, J.D.; LaHaye, R.J.
Univ. of Wisconsin, Center for Plasma Theory and Computation, Madison, WI (United States); General Atomics, San Diego, CA (United States). Funding organisation: USDOE Office of Energy Research, Washington, DC (United States)1998
Univ. of Wisconsin, Center for Plasma Theory and Computation, Madison, WI (United States); General Atomics, San Diego, CA (United States). Funding organisation: USDOE Office of Energy Research, Washington, DC (United States)1998
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[en] Seed magnetic island formation due to a dynamically growing external source in toroidal confinement devices is modeled as an initial value forced reconnection problem. For an external source whose amplitude grows on a time scale quickly compared to the Sweet-Parker time of resistive magnetohydrodynamics, the induced reconnection is characterized by a current sheet and a reconnected flux amplitude which lags in time the source amplitude. This suggests that neoclassical tearing modes, whose excitation requires a seed magnetic island, are more difficult to cause in high Lundquist number plasmas
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Jun 1998; 27 p; CONTRACT FG02-92ER54139; AC03-89ER51114; ALSO AVAILABLE FROM OSTI AS DE98007138; NTIS; US GOVT. PRINTING OFFICE DEP
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