Exponential growth of nonlinear ballooning instability

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 102, Issue 23, 2009, Pages

  Zhu, P ^a   Hegna, C C ^a   Sovinec, C R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BALLOONING INSTABILITY; DISPLACEMENT AMPLITUDES; EXPONENTIAL GROWTH; IDEAL MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMICS; LAGRANGIAN; LINEAR GROWTH RATE; LINEAR PHASE; MHD SIMULATION; NON-LINEARITY; NONLINEAR PHASE; TOTAL KINETIC ENERGY;

EID: 67249093228     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.235003     Document Type: Article

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