Shear flow generation by drift waves revisited
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چکیده
The generation of shear flow by drift waves is an important area of investigation. In a recent paper @Chen et al., Phys. Plasmas 7, 3129 ~2000!# an elegant formalism was developed for the generation of shear/zonal flows by drift waves in a toroidal plasma. The study of shear flow generation in fluids and plasmas is put into perspective. In this paper it is shown how a simple slab geometry analysis can lead to a similar dispersion relation and highlight the subtle differences between the slab and toroidal geometries. © 2001 American Institute of Physics. @DOI: 10.1063/1.1340618#
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