Note on the ballooning criterion for multipoles
Abstract
An equation giving the critical pressure gradient for stability to ballooning modes is derived directly from the energy principle by specializing to displacements that do no bulk compression.
- Publication:
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Physics of Fluids
- Pub Date:
- January 1980
- DOI:
- 10.1063/1.862848
- Bibcode:
- 1980PhFl...23..228A
- Keywords:
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- Magnetohydrodynamic Stability;
- Multipoles;
- Pressure Gradients;
- Toroidal Plasmas;
- Displacement;
- Magnetic Fields;
- Modal Response;
- Plasma Physics