Simple analysis of the nonlinear saturation of the tearing mode

Physics of Plasmas

Volumn 11, Issue 5 PART 1, 2004, Pages

  Militello, F ^a   Porcelli, F ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CURRENT DENSITY; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MAGNETIC FLUX; MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROBLEM SOLVING;

LUNDQUIST NUMBER; MAGNETIC ISLANDS; RUTHERFORD THEORY; TEARING MODES;

MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS;

EID: 2942608207     PISSN: 1070664X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1677089     Document Type: Article

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