Resistive instabilities in a tokamak

• DOI: 10.1063/1.861490
• Publication Date: 2003-03-07T19:38:58Z
• Authors: A. H. Glasser; J. M. Greene; J. L. Johnson
• Keywords: Resistive touchscreen; Tearing

Application of resistive instability theory shows that toroidal effects can stabilize the tearing mode in devices like Princeton Large Torus. Contraction current channel is destabilizing. Finite fluid compressibility crucial to this phenomenon.