Abstract
The analysis of electromagnetic kinetic toroidal eigenmodes for general magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) equilibria has been extended to include the effects of non-Maxwellian equilibrium distribution functions. This is necessary to properly represent the response of the hot-beam-ion species produced during neutral-beam injection heating and the response of the alpha-particle species in a thermonuclear plasma. The influence of these components on low-frequency microinstabilities is investigated for realistic cases typical of the PLT and PDX tokamak experiments.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 3619-3623 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Physics of Fluids |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue number | 12 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1983 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Computational Mechanics
- Condensed Matter Physics
- Mechanics of Materials
- Mechanical Engineering
- Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes