Global approach to the spectral problem of microinstabilities in a cylindrical plasma using a gyrokinetic model

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 365-375

  Brunner, S ^a   Vaclavik, J ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; KINETIC THEORY; MAGNETIC FIELDS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PLASMAS; PROBLEM SOLVING; TOKAMAK DEVICES;

BESSEL FUNCTION; CYLINDRICAL PLASMA; GYROKINETIC MODEL; ION TEMPERATURE GRADIENT; MICROINSTABILITIES;

PLASMA STABILITY;

EID: 0032000468     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.872718     Document Type: Article

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