Low Frequency Instabilities in Confined Plasmas: Concepts and Theoretical Framework
Fusion Science and Technology / Volume 45 / Number 2T / March 2004 / Pages 338-345
Technical Paper / Plasma and Fusion Energy Physics - Anomalous Transport / dx.doi.org/10.13182/FST04-A499
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Most experts consider that anomalous energy and particle transport in fusion devices are due to low frequency waves whose free energy sources are the equilibrium gradients and the associated drifts across the confining magnetic field (drift waves). We consider successively the cases where k
