Temperature gradient and electron gyroradius effects on lower hybrid drift - drift cyclotron instabilities
Abstract
Electron and ion temperature gradients as well as finite electron gyroradius (k rho/sub e/ approximately greater than 1) were retained to analyze the stability of drift waves from the lower hybrid down to the cyclotron frequency. The instability conditions indicate the importance of these modes over this entire frequency range in a variety of applications.
- Publication:
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Unknown
- Pub Date:
- December 1977
- Bibcode:
- 1977tgeg.rept.....M
- Keywords:
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- Cyclotron Frequency;
- Frequency Stability;
- Ion Temperature;
- Larmor Precession;
- Temperature Gradients;
- Cyclotron Radiation;
- Magnetohydrodynamic Stability;
- Plasma Frequencies;
- Plasmas (Physics);
- Vlasov Equations;
- Plasma Physics