Toroidal Alfvén mode instability driven by plasma current in low-density Ohmic plasmas of the spherical tori
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DOI: 10.1063/5.0223920
Abstract: Due to intrinsically low magnetic fields, at low density the drift speed of the current-carrying electrons in spherical tokamaks can exceed fraction of the Alfvén speed sufficient for the excitation of the Alfvén gap modes.… read more here.
Keywords: drift speed; plasmas; mode; low density ... See more keywords