J. Wesson
Landau’s calculation of electron plasma oscillations demonstrated the phenomenon now known as Landau damping.1 The calculation used a Fourier-Laplace transform and regarded the electron velocity as complex in order to properly locate the pole in the complex frequency plane that gives the dispersion relation containing the wave damping. Here, the …
Preprint PublishedC. N. Lashmore-Davies J. A. Wesson C. G. Gimblett
A uniform compressible plasma with a uniform flow along the magnetic field in the presence of a resistive wall is shown to be subject to two instabilities. For the first instability, the flow velocity is required to exceed the Alfve´n speed, whereas for the second it need only exceed the sound speed. For a sufficiently high ion temperature, ion La…
PublishedC. G. Gimblett R. J. Hastie R. A. M. Van Der Linden J. A. Wesson
Advanced Tokamak Concepts [C. Kessel, J. Manickam, G. Rewoldt, and W. M. Tang, Phys. Rev. Lett. 72 , 1212 (1994)] have been designed assuming that the ‘‘Resistive Wall Mode’’ (RWM) is stable. It has recently been shown that the RWM can be stabilized by a combination of strong uniform plasma rotation and visco-resistive dissipation. In this …
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