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Title | Inappropriateness of the finite Larmor radius model for the tilting mode in field reversed configurations |
Creator/Author | Schwarzmeier, J.L. ; Seyler, C.E. |
Publication Date | 1984 Jan 01 |
OSTI Identifier | OSTI ID: 5194016; Legacy ID: DE84007467 |
Report Number(s) | LA-UR-84-632; CONF-840255-15 |
DOE Contract Number | W-7405-ENG-36 |
Other Number(s) | Other: ON: DE84007467 |
Resource Type | Conference |
Specific Type | Technical Report |
Resource Relation | Conference: 6. US-Japan symposium on compact toroid research, Princeton, NJ, USA, 20 Feb 1984 |
Research Org | Los Alamos National Lab., NM (USA) |
Subject | 70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY; REVERSE-FIELD PINCH; PLASMA INSTABILITY; DISPERSION RELATIONS; LARMOR RADIUS; MAGNETIC FLUX; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; INSTABILITY; PINCH EFFECT |
Description/Abstract | Numerical results are presented of the finite Larmor radius (FLR) treatment of the tilting mode as described by Seyler and Barnes. We have two principal results. First, the FLR theory of tilting has singularities at the magnetic axis that make application of the theory unphysical. Second, numerical results will be presented showing that for current experiments the magnetic moments of the ions are poorly conserved at the tips of the flux surfaces in an FRC, ad therefore there is a priori reason to view an FLR theory as suspect for global modes in FRCs. |
Country of Publication | United States |
Language | English |
Format | Size: Pages: 5 |
Availability | NTIS, PC A02/MF A01. |
System Entry Date | 2008 Dec 01 |
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