Drift instabilities

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Contents 1 References 1.1 General 1.2 On the Drift-Kinetic equation 1.3 Collisional Drift Instabilities 1.4 ηi modes, Radial Eigenmode Analysis 1.5 Sheared Slab Normal Mode Analysis of Drift Instabilities. 1.6 Toroidal Effects

[edit] References

[edit] General

[1] N.A. Krall, Advances in Plasma Physics, Vol. 1. (1968) 153.

[2] Krall & Trivelpiece, p.430 ff.

[edit] On the Drift-Kinetic equation

[3] Hinton & Hazeltine. Rev. of Modern Physics 48 (1976) 239.

[edit] Collisional Drift Instabilities

[4] A.B. Mikhailovskii, Theory of Plasma Instabilities , Vol II, (1974) (Discusses both fluid and kinetic derivations).

[edit] η_i modes, Radial Eigenmode Analysis

[5] Coppi, Rosenbluth, Sagdeev, Phys. Fluids. 10, 582 (1967).

[edit] Sheared Slab Normal Mode Analysis of Drift Instabilities.

[6] Pearlstein & Berk, Phys. Rev. Lett. 23 (1969) 220 ("Universal Mode")

[7] Coppi, Rosenbluth & Sagdeev, Phys. Fluids 10 (1967) 582.

[8] Hahm, Tang, Phys. Fluids B 1 (1989) 1185. (η_i-mode with Resonances, (eta_i)_cit analysis)

[edit] Toroidal Effects

The toriodal geometry changes the basic mode structure to "balloning-type" character alone the field line.

• drift effects strong.
• Trapped particle dynmaics appear. (Trapped η_i ion modes).

[9] Guzdan et. al. Phys. Fluids. 26. 673 (1983)

[10] Hurton, et. al. Phys. Fluids. 24. 1077 (1987).

[11] Tang, Rewoldt, Chen, P.F. 29, 3715 (1987).

[12] Biglan, et. al. P. F. B. 1, 109 (1989).

[13] Romanelli, P. F. B. 1. (1989)

[14] Guo, et. al, Plasma Phys, 31, 423 (1989) (Possible local q dependence).