Abstract
The recent revival of interest in the application of the `ballooning formalism` to low-frequency plasma instabilities has prompted a comparison of the Wentzel-Brillouin-Kramers (WKB) ballooning approximation with an (in principle) exact normal mode calculation for a three-dimensional plasma equilibrium. Semiclassical quantization, using the ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) ballooning eigenvalue to provide a local dispersion relation, is applied to a ten-field period stellarator test case. Excellent qualitative agreement, and good quantitative agreement is found with predictions from the TERPSICHORE code for toroidal mode numbers from 1 to 14 and radial mode numbers from 0 to 2. The continuum bands predicted from three-dimensional WKB theory are too narrow to resolve. (author) 3 figs., 24 refs.
Cooper, W A;
[1]
Singleton, D B;
[2]
Dewar, R L
[3]
- Ecole Polytechnique Federale, Lausanne (Switzerland). Centre de Recherche en Physique des Plasma (CRPP)
- Australian National Univ., ANU Supercomputing Facility, Canberra (Australia)
- Australian National Univ., Canberra, ACT (Australia). Research School of Physical Sciences
Citation Formats
Cooper, W A, Singleton, D B, and Dewar, R L.
Spectrum of ballooning instabilities in a stellarator.
Switzerland: N. p.,
1995.
Web.
Cooper, W A, Singleton, D B, & Dewar, R L.
Spectrum of ballooning instabilities in a stellarator.
Switzerland.
Cooper, W A, Singleton, D B, and Dewar, R L.
1995.
"Spectrum of ballooning instabilities in a stellarator."
Switzerland.
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title = {Spectrum of ballooning instabilities in a stellarator}
author = {Cooper, W A, Singleton, D B, and Dewar, R L}
abstractNote = {The recent revival of interest in the application of the `ballooning formalism` to low-frequency plasma instabilities has prompted a comparison of the Wentzel-Brillouin-Kramers (WKB) ballooning approximation with an (in principle) exact normal mode calculation for a three-dimensional plasma equilibrium. Semiclassical quantization, using the ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) ballooning eigenvalue to provide a local dispersion relation, is applied to a ten-field period stellarator test case. Excellent qualitative agreement, and good quantitative agreement is found with predictions from the TERPSICHORE code for toroidal mode numbers from 1 to 14 and radial mode numbers from 0 to 2. The continuum bands predicted from three-dimensional WKB theory are too narrow to resolve. (author) 3 figs., 24 refs.}
place = {Switzerland}
year = {1995}
month = {Aug}
}
title = {Spectrum of ballooning instabilities in a stellarator}
author = {Cooper, W A, Singleton, D B, and Dewar, R L}
abstractNote = {The recent revival of interest in the application of the `ballooning formalism` to low-frequency plasma instabilities has prompted a comparison of the Wentzel-Brillouin-Kramers (WKB) ballooning approximation with an (in principle) exact normal mode calculation for a three-dimensional plasma equilibrium. Semiclassical quantization, using the ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) ballooning eigenvalue to provide a local dispersion relation, is applied to a ten-field period stellarator test case. Excellent qualitative agreement, and good quantitative agreement is found with predictions from the TERPSICHORE code for toroidal mode numbers from 1 to 14 and radial mode numbers from 0 to 2. The continuum bands predicted from three-dimensional WKB theory are too narrow to resolve. (author) 3 figs., 24 refs.}
place = {Switzerland}
year = {1995}
month = {Aug}
}