Inertial tearing modes in magnetically-confined plasmas
Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Physics, 2016.
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| author | Montag, Peter Katsumi |
| author2 | Miklos Porkolab and Nuno F. G. Loureiro. |
| author_facet | Miklos Porkolab and Nuno F. G. Loureiro. Montag, Peter Katsumi |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1075422019-04-10T17:37:57Z Inertial tearing modes in magnetically-confined plasmas Montag, Peter Katsumi Miklos Porkolab and Nuno F. G. Loureiro. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics. Physics. Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Physics, 2016. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (pages 91-92). In this thesis, I analyzed the behavior of the plasma instability known as the tearing mode in parameter regimes relevant to magnetically-confined fusion plasmas. This included a derivation of the relevant equations and a method of solving them using Fourier analysis. This method allowed the derivation of several analytic results and efficient calculation of numeric results about the growth rates and frequencies of the analyzed modes, and demonstrated the existence of a second type of unstable tearing mode related to electron inertia. The results of the analysis of this inertial mode proved consistent with experimental data on the tearing mode from JET, and suggests further analysis in the nonlinear regime to verify this consistency. by Peter Katsumi Montag. S.M. 2017-03-20T19:39:12Z 2017-03-20T19:39:12Z 2016 2016 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/107542 974497147 eng MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 92 pages application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| spellingShingle | Physics. Montag, Peter Katsumi Inertial tearing modes in magnetically-confined plasmas |
| title | Inertial tearing modes in magnetically-confined plasmas |
| title_full | Inertial tearing modes in magnetically-confined plasmas |
| title_fullStr | Inertial tearing modes in magnetically-confined plasmas |
| title_full_unstemmed | Inertial tearing modes in magnetically-confined plasmas |
| title_short | Inertial tearing modes in magnetically-confined plasmas |
| title_sort | inertial tearing modes in magnetically confined plasmas |
| topic | Physics. |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/107542 |
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