A kink instability (also known as a kink oscillation or kink mode) is a current-driven plasma instability characterized by transverse displacements of...
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Plasma stability (redirect from Plasma instability)
instability), Sausage instability (m=0) Kink instability (m=1) Helical kink instability (a.k.a. helical instability) Rayleigh–Taylor instability (RTI, a.k.a. gravitational...
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unexpected instabilities of the plasma that would cause it to hit the walls of the container vessel. The problem became known as the "kink instability". By...
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Tokamak (section Instability)
by instabilities in the plasma. There were two common types of instability, the sausage that was seen primarily in linear machines, and the kink which...
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early machines proved subject to powerful instabilities in the plasma. Notable among them was the kink instability, which caused the pinched ring to thrash...
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initiation may involve ideal instabilities or catastrophic loss of equilibrium along an existing flux rope: The kink instability occurs when a magnetic flux...
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into the plasma, cooling it and ruining the reaction. This so-called "kink instability" appeared to be a fundamental problem. At Aldermaston, the Imperial...
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that the external magnetic fields in this configuration could induce kink instabilities in the plasma and subsequently lead to an unexpectedly high heat loss...
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far too rapidly to be used for energy generation. Among these is the kink instability, which is caused by small variations in the plasma shape. Areas where...
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inherently unstable. One of the two effects, which became known as the kink instability, was already being seen in early z-pinch experiments and occurred slowly...
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compression. Further work identified two types of instabilities, nicknamed "kink" and "sausage". In the kink, the normally toroidal plasma would bend to the...
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inherently more stable at low aspect ratios. In particular, the classic "kink instability" was strongly suppressed. Other groups expanded on this body of theory...
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metal cooling the plasma. Forming an initial spherical liquid surface. Kink instability of the liquid metal shaft. Symmetry of implosion. Flux diffusion in...
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European Torus Kennelly–Heaviside layer, E region Kinetics (physics) Kink instability Kirchhoff's circuit laws Kite applications, plasma kite Kosterlitz–Thouless...
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Plasmoid (redirect from Plasmoid instability)
Wei, C. Q.; Akasofu, S.-I., A mechanism for the formation of plasmoids and kink waves in the heliospheric current sheet (1988) Solar Physics (ISSN 0038-0938)...
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A shortwave or shortwave trough is an embedded kink in the trough / ridge pattern. Its length scale is much smaller than that of and is embedded within...
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instabilies such as the m = 0 instability ('sausage'), m = 1 instability ('kink'), and various other higher order instabilities. The screw pinch is an effort...
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{\displaystyle m} is the poloidal mode number. This instability may be the internal kink mode, resistive internal kink mode or m = 1 {\displaystyle m=1} tearing...
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Edge-localized mode (category Plasma instabilities)
An edge-localized mode (ELM) is a plasma instability occurring in the edge region of a tokamak plasma due to periodic relaxations of the edge transport...
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Overactive bladder (redirect from Detrusor instability)
is in place, the catheter may be blocked by blood, thick sediment, or a kink in the catheter or drainage tubing. Sometimes spasms are caused by the catheter...
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to John Lennon, or Roy Orbison's "Pretty Woman", which he credits to The Kinks. The character named Jesse Garon Parker represents Elvis Presley in every...
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Transition Region And Coronal Explorer (TRACE), interpreted as standing kink (or "Alfvénic") oscillations of the loops. This confirms the theoretical...
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and the possibility of damaging winds, large hail, and tornadoes. At each kink along the LEWP is a mesoscale low-pressure area, which could contain a tornado...
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nearly 22,000 mi (35,000 km) of testing. The cars suffered aerodynamic instabilities along the circuit's long high-speed straight sections. The car of Australian...
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these instabilities become uncontrollable. In early pinch experiments the current dominated the field components and the kink and sausage instabilities were...
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to poor trunk taper, and restrict vascular flow kinked roots provide poor structural support; the kink is a site of potential root failure circling roots...
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from the cathode hit it, called secondary emission. This causes a downward "kink" in the plate current vs. plate voltage curve (graph below, grey region)...
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masonry was laid in horizontal layers. The slope reduction created the unique kink that is not found in any other pyramid. Due to the lower inclination angle...
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The wing modifications included outboard and inboard inserts, as well as a kink in the trailing edge to add area inboard. Takeoff weight was increased to...
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