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Miklos Porkolab and Nuno F. G. Loureiro.
Montag, Peter Katsumi
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
2017-03-20T19:39:12Z
2017-03-20T19:39:12Z
2016
2016
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/107542
974497147
Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Physics, 2016.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 91-92).
In this thesis, I analyzed the behavior of the plasma instability known as the tearing mode in parameter regimes relevant to magnetically-confined fusion plasmas. This included a derivation of the relevant equations and a method of solving them using Fourier analysis. This method allowed the derivation of several analytic results and efficient calculation of numeric results about the growth rates and frequencies of the analyzed modes, and demonstrated the existence of a second type of unstable tearing mode related to electron inertia. The results of the analysis of this inertial mode proved consistent with experimental data on the tearing mode from JET, and suggests further analysis in the nonlinear regime to verify this consistency.
by Peter Katsumi Montag.
S.M.
92 pages
eng
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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