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Institute for fusion studies. Progress report, September 1, 1984-August 31, 1985

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:5761879

Drift and tearing modes in a sheared cylindrical collisionless plasma column are studied. A set of differential equations in the radial coordinate are derived with small gyroradius and low-..beta.. expansion. The finite-..beta.. effects include curvature drifts, gradient-B drifts, and the parallel magnetic field perturbation. Algebraic elimination reduces the resulting set of equations to a fourth-order system. Analysis shows that bad curvature does not drive the collisionless modes unstable.

Research Organization:
Texas Univ., Austin (USA). Inst. for Fusion Studies
DOE Contract Number:
FG05-80ET53088
OSTI ID:
5761879
Report Number(s):
DOE/ET/53088-1; ON: DE86010289
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English