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Resistive convection in a cylindrical plasma

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

L. Gomberoff
Affiliation:
Facultad de Ciencias Básicas, Departamento de Física, Universidad de Chile, Casilla 653, Santiago, Chile

Abstract

It is shown that the combined effect of resistivity and thermal conductivity is responsible for the existence of marginal stationary modes in a cylindrical current-carrying plasma, under the influence of a shearless magnetic field. These modes occur in the tokamak approximation and for low wavenumbers. In the nonlinear theory they give rise to large-scale stationary convection.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1984

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