Review of Instability Theory for High Pressure Tokamak Plasma

摘要

This paper reviews the instability theory for a tokamak with high pressure plasma. The review consists of the following sections: (1) introduction and history, (2) role of the nonhydromagnetic part of the perturbed pressure in nonpotential (electromagnetic) instabilities, (3) the shear effect on nonpotential instabilities, (4) nonpotential trapped particle modes, (5) the role of magnetic confinement of resonant particles in nonpotential instabilities, (6) quasi-odd Alfven modes, (7) short wavelength nonpotential instabilities, (8) nonpotential instabilities of a streaming plasma of high pressure with inhomogeneous velocity profile, (9) drift effects in the MHD mode theory for a tokamak, (10) several problems of the theory of flute instability and the resistive g mode, (11) conclusion. (ERA citation 03:036445)