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Non-ideal stability: variational method for the determination of the outer-region matching data

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

A. Pletzer  and
R. L. Dewar
A. Pletzer
Affiliation:
Department of Theoretical Physics and Plasma Research Laboratory, Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, The Australian National University, G.P.O. Box 4, Canberra, A.C.T. 2601, Australia
R. L. Dewar
Affiliation:
Department of Theoretical Physics and Plasma Research Laboratory, Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, The Australian National University, G.P.O. Box 4, Canberra, A.C.T. 2601, Australia
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Abstract

Within the framework of studies of the stability of magneto-plasmas to non-ideal modes, such as resistive modes, the problem of determining the asymptotic matching data arising from the outer (ideal) region is considered. Modes possessing both tearing and interchange (ballooning) parity are considered in finite-pressure plasmas. The matching data, which form a matrix whose elements represent the small solution response to forcing by a big solution, are shown to derive from a variational (energy) principle. The variational principle, as presented, applies to both cylindrical and two-dimensional (toroidal) geometries. Allowing for the presence of multiple rational surfaces, a reciprocity relation between off-diagonal elements of the matching data matrix is obtained. The variational principle is suitable for numerical approximation, and, in particular, for the finite-element method, for which convergence rates are estimated. By packing nodes near the rational surface, maximum convergence, proportional to the inverse square of the number of mesh nodes for tent functions, is achieved.

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Research Article
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Journal of Plasma Physics , Volume 45 , Issue 3 , June 1991 , pp. 427 - 451
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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