DRIFT-WAVE STABILIZATION BY MEANS OF A SPECIFIC MAGNETIC-FIELD INHOMOGENEITY

Authors
BECKMANN M HIMMEL G
Citation
M. Beckmann et G. Himmel, DRIFT-WAVE STABILIZATION BY MEANS OF A SPECIFIC MAGNETIC-FIELD INHOMOGENEITY, Journal of physics. D, Applied physics, 31(14), 1998, pp. 1688-1694
Citations number
8
Categorie Soggetti
Physics, Applied
Journal title
Journal of physics. D, Applied physics → ACNP
ISSN journal
00223727
Volume
31
Issue
14
Year of publication
1998
Pages
1688 - 1694
Database
ISI
SICI code
0022-3727(1998)31:14<1688:DSBMOA>2.0.ZU;2-6
Abstract
The controlled deformation of magnetic field lines in a magnetized rf ring discharge in helium is used to stabilize self-excited drift waves driven by gradients of the plasma density and the electron temperatur e. The observed effects of the inhomogeneity are described theoretical ly by an extension of an existing drift wave model in terms of the low est-order nonlinear interaction between the waves and the magnetic fie ld inhomogeneity.