Variational calculation of drift wave eigenvalues
Abstract
The validity of the variational calculation of drift wave eigenvalues in plasmas with magnetic shear is reaffirmed by means of a rotation in the complex x plane. Recent criticism of the method is thereby refuted.
- Publication:
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Physics of Fluids
- Pub Date:
- June 1979
- DOI:
- 10.1063/1.862692
- Bibcode:
- 1979PhFl...22.1215R
- Keywords:
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- Calculus Of Variations;
- Eigenvalues;
- Magnetohydrodynamic Stability;
- Plasma Waves;
- Convergence;
- Quadratic Equations;
- Plasma Physics