Destabilization of global Alfvén eigenmodes and kinetic Alfvén waves by alpha particles in a tokamak plasma

DOI10.1063/1.866260zbMath0623.76040OpenAlexW2042596759MaRDI QIDQ3761927

Swadesh M. Mahajan, Yanming Li, David W. Ross

Publication date: 1987

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.866260

zbMATH Keywords

kinetic Alfvén wavesquasilinear stabilizationAlfvén wave instabilitiesalpha particle density gradientclasses of eigenmodesglobal Alfvén eigenmodesparallel phase velocityquasilinear flatteningreacting tokamak plasmaslowing-down alpha distributionstoroidal coupling

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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