Analytic Solutions of the Two-Dimensional Eigenvalue Problem for the Trapped-Electron Instability in Tokamaks
- 26 December 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Physical Society (APS) in Physical Review Letters
- Vol. 39 (26), 1664-1667
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.39.1664
Abstract
The radial localization of the destabilizing trapped-electron term that is caused by the differences in the pitch of the magnetic field and the mode structure is shown to result in a completely new form of the dispersion relation for the trapped-electron instability.Keywords
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