Nonlinear kinetic theory of a single helicity tearing instability

DOI10.1063/1.864861zbMath0571.76122OpenAlexW2073069662MaRDI QIDQ3688037

K. Swartz, R. D. Hazeltine

Publication date: 1984

Published in: The Physics of Fluids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.864861

zbMATH Keywords

linear growthislandsnonlinear saturationcollisionless limitflux coordinates appropriate to island geometryincreasing finite collisionalitysingle helicity tearing modeslow Rutherford-type growth

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Magnetohydrodynamics and electrohydrodynamics (76W05) Statistical mechanics of plasmas (82D10) Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow (76X05)

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