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Magnetohydrodynamic stability of plasmas with ideal and relaxed regions

Date

Authors

Mills, Ruth

Hole, Matthew

Dewar, Robert

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Abstract

A unified energy principle approach is presented for analysing the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) stability of plasmas consisting of multiple ideal and relaxed regions. The gauge a = ξ×B for the vector potential, a, of linearized perturbations is used, with

Keywords

Keywords: Beltrami equation; Beltrami fields; Cylindrical geometry; Energy principles; Euler-Lagrange equations; Even-parity; Field profile; Large solutions; Limit problem; Magnetic surfaces; Magnetohydrodynamic stability; Neighbourhood; Odd-parity; Phase-space plo

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/1885/24768

Collections

ANU Research Publications

Source

Journal of Plasma Physics

Type

Journal article

DOI

10.1017/S0022377809008095

Restricted until

2037-12-31

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