UW-CPTC 09-8 Unified theory of resistive and inertial ballooning modes in three-dimensional configurations
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Analytic results for the stability of resistive ballooning modes (RBMs) and electron inertial ballooning modes are obtained using a two-scale analysis. This work generalizes previous calculations used for axisymmetric ŝ− geometry [R.H. Hastie, J.J. Ramos and F. Porcelli Phys.Plasmas 10, 4405 (2003)] to general three-dimensional geometry. A unified theory is developed for RBMs and inertial ballooning modes, in which the effects of both ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) free energy (as measured by the asymptotic matching parameter Δ′) and geodesic curvature drives in the non-ideal layer are included in the dispersion relation. This unified theory can be applied to determine the stability of drift-resistive-inertial ballooning modes in the low temperature edge regions of tokamak and stellarator plasmas where steep density gradients exist.
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