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Drift waves in a turbulent plasma

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2009

I. Mendonça
Affiliation:
Complexo Interdisciplinar, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon-1, Portugal
J. T. Mendonça
Affiliation:
Complexo Interdisciplinar, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon-1, Portugal

Abstract

We study the dispersion equation of drift waves in the presence of electron- plasma turbulence in a plasma with magnetic shear. We show that the shear stabilization can be cancelled out by a hot turbulent spectrum, even for a low level of turbulence, W/n0Te≪ 1.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1977

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