Amplitude Limitation of a Collisional Drift Wave Instability

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F. L. Hinton · The University of Texas at Austin

W. Horton · The University of Texas at Austin

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A nonlinear analysis of collisional drift waves is presented in which a systematic expansion is made in powers of the wave amplitude. The two-fluid equations are used, including the effects of resistivity, viscosity, and thermal transport. The result, for the wave amplitude as a function of magnetic field in the linearly unstable region close to marginal stability, agrees reasonably well with experiment.

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Published in: The Physics of Fluids

Volume 14, Issue 1, pp. 116-123

DOI: 10.1063/1.1693260

Field-Weighted Citation Impact: 3.28

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Amplitude Limitation of a Collisional Drift Wave Instability

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