Electrostatic Trapping and the Linear and Nonlinear Evolution of Dissipative Trapped Electron Instabilities.
Abstract
Three problems related to the effect of electrostatic trapping on dissipative trapped electron instabilities are investigated: (1) the linear theory of the dissipative trapped electron mode for the case in which there is both a magnetic well and an electric well (or anti-well), (2) the nonlinear stability of a drift wave (in a straight constant magnetic field) whose amplitude is large enough to trap electrons, and (3) the nonlinear saturation of the dissipative trapped electron mode in a tokamak-type magnetic well via the mechanism of electric trapping and detrapping by wave electrostatic potential perturbations along B. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Nov 01, 1975
- Accession Number
- ADA018023
Entities
People
- Edward Ott
- Wallace M. Manheimer
Organizations
- United States Naval Research Laboratory