TY - CONF TI - Stability of plasma in static equilibrium AB - Our purpose is to derive from the Boltzmann equation in the small m/e limit, criteria useful in the discussion of stability of plasmas in static equilibrium. At first we ignore collisions but later show their effects may be taken into account. Our approach yields a generalization of the usual energy principles for investigating the stability of hydromagnetic systems to situations where the effect of heat flow along magnetic lines is not negligible, and hence to situations where the strictly hydrodynamic approach is inapplicable. In the first two sections we characterize our general method of approach and delineate the properties of the small m/e limit which we use to determine the constants of the motion and the condition for static equilibrium. In the next two sections we calculate the first and second variations of the energy and conclude with a statement of the general stability criterion. In the final three sections we state several theorems which relate our stability criterion to those of ordinary hydromagnetic theory, we show how to take into account the effect of collisions, and briefly discuss the remaining problem of incorporating the charge neutrality condition into the present stability theory. (author) AU - "Krusiial, M D" AU - "Oberman, N R [Project Matterhorn, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ (United States)]" KW - "70 PLASMA PHYSICS AND FUSION TECHNOLOGY" KW - "BOLTZMANN EQUATION" KW - "COLLISIONS" KW - "EQUILIBRIUM" KW - "HEAT FLUX" KW - "PLASMA" KW - "STABILITY" KW - "VARIATIONS" KW - "YIELDS" DO - https://doi.org/ UR - PB - CY - UN PY - 1958 DA - 1958-07-01 LA - English J2 - [] VL - C1 - United Nations, Geneva (Switzerland) C2 - C3 - INIS-XU-021; P-365-USA C4 - C5 - Available from INIS in electronic form L3 - Conference: 2. United Nations international conference on the peaceful uses of atomic energy, Geneva (Switzerland), 1-13 Sep 1958; Other Information: 8 refs; Related Information: In: Proceedings of the second United Nations international conference on the peaceful uses of atomic energy. V. 31. Theoretical and experimental aspects of controlled nuclear fusion, 400 pages. ER -