Publication Type
Journal
Journal Name
Physical Review Letters
Publication Date
Page Number
829
Volume
38
Issue
15
Abstract
Large-scale magnetohydrodynamic instabilities of flux-conserving tokamak equilibria
are studied computationally. Stable equilibria are found with up to 5' average P. As P
is increased, the observed instabilities take on a strong ballooning character, concentrating
near the outer edge of the torus with a mix of poloidal harmonics.