High beta stellarator stability theory

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Dec 1979 English Publisher:AIP PublishingJournal:The Physics of Fluids, volume 22, pages 2,400-2,407 (issn: 0031-9171,

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Authors: Schmidt, Michael J.;

doi: 10.1063/1.862554

High beta stellarator stability theory

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Abstract

An analytic study of the stability of a straight diffuse high beta stellarator with arbitrary wall corrugation is presented. It is found that a solvability condition for the equilibrium of such a plasma is intimately related to a sufficient condition for stability. The results of the calculation suggest that if the equilibrium model is valid, then all high beta stellarators are unstable.

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New York University
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Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
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Keywords

solvability condition, Stability and instability of magnetohydrodynamic and electrohydrodynamic flows, diffuse three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic stellarator equilibria

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