Error magnetic fields in a cylindrical plasma: Stability with zero pressure

DOI10.1063/1.865121zbMath0588.76087OpenAlexW1983172702MaRDI QIDQ3716616

Guthrie Miller

Publication date: 1985

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.865121

zbMATH Keywords

energy principleplasma equilibriareversed field pinchresistive diffusionsmall resistivityconcentrated currentsCylindrical Ohmic statesdestruction of magnetic surfaceserror magnetic fieldsnonlinear tearing mode theoryRelaxed statesspatial scale of the current distributionspontaneous generation of error fieldsstability of zero pressure equilibriaweakly stochastic magnetic field lines

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics of plasmas (82D10) Stability and instability of magnetohydrodynamic and electrohydrodynamic flows (76E25) Ionized gas flow in electromagnetic fields; plasmic flow (76X05) Basic methods in fluid mechanics (76M99)

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