Observation of a Ballooning‐Type Instability in a Plasma Confined by a Quadrupole Magnetic Field
作者:
D. M. Meade,
S. Yoshikawa,
期刊:
Physics of Fluids(00319171)
(AIP Available online 1967)
卷期:
Volume 10,
issue 12
页码: 2649-2652
ISSN:0031-9171
年代: 1967
DOI:10.1063/1.1762088
出版商: AIP
数据来源: AIP
摘要:
Instabilities of a ballooning type were observed in the ∮dl/Bstable region of a linear quadrupole device. The amplitude distribution of the fluctuation along a field line behaved like a standing wave that had a node where ▿B2· ▿p< 0 and was peaked where ▿B2· ▿p> 0. The quantityk∥&lgr;mfpewas typically 5–10. The observed fluctuation is in qualitative agreement with the theory of collisionless drift waves modified to take into account the change of field curvature and field strength along the field line. The threshold for the instability appears to be strongly dependent on the ratio of the plasma radius to connection length. The plasma confinement was not sensitive to the presence of the ballooning instability.
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