Keywords

thermal equilibrium, temperature stability, cylindrical plasma

Abstract

A variational formulation is used to consider thermal equilibrium and stability for a cylindrical plasma modeled by dissipative magnetohydrodynamics. The parameter dependence of equilibrium solutions and their stability is followed using homotopy techniques. Solution branches and their connections are studied in relation to the applied fields.

Original Publication Citation

Rasband, S. N. and Yao H. Xu."Considerations of temperature stability in a cylindrical plasma." Physics of Fluids 29 (1986): 2639-2647.

Document Type

Peer-Reviewed Article

Publication Date

1986-08-01

Permanent URL

http://hdl.lib.byu.edu/1877/1269

Publisher

AIP

Language

English

College

Physical and Mathematical Sciences

Department

Physics and Astronomy

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