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Kinetic effects on the ideal Alfvén continuum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

Hans O. Åkerstedt
Affiliation:
Department of Technology, Uppsala University, Box 534, S-75121 Uppsala, Sweden

Abstract

Kinetic effects such as those of finite Larmor radius (FLR) and. wave–particle resonances on the ideal Alfvén-wave continuum in a z-pinch geometry are investigated. The effect of FLR increases the order of the equations and is therefore treated as a singular perturbation. Similar eigenvalue curves are found as for the case when the non-ideal effect is resistivity, with a bifurcation of a global-mode branch into a boundary-mode branch and an internal-mode branch.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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