Tearing Mode Dynamics in Tokamaks and Stellarators

• R. Fitzpatrick, F.L. Waelbroeck,
  Spontaneous healing and growth of locked magnetic island chains in toroidal plasmas,
  Phys. Plasmas 19, 112501 (2012).
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• R. Fitzpatrick, F.L. Waelbroeck,
  A drift-magnetohydrodynamical fluid model of helical magnetic island equilibria in the pedestals of H-mode tokamak plasmas,
  Phys. Plasmas 17, 062503 (2010).
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• R. Fitzpatrick, F.L. Waelbroeck,
  Locked magnetic island chains in toroidally flow damped tokamak plasmas,
  Plasma Phys. Control. Fusion 52, 055006 (2010).
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• R. Fitzpatrick, F.L. Waelbroeck,
  Effect of flow damping on drift-tearing magnetic islands in tokamak plasmas,
  Phys. Plasmas 16, 072507 (2009).
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• R. Fitzpatrick, F.L. Waelbroeck,
  Effect of local ExB flow shear on the stability of magnetic islands in tokamak plasmas,
  Phys. Plasmas 16, 052502 (2009).
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• R. Fitzpatrick, F.L. Waelbroeck,
  Drift-tearing magnetic islands in tokamak plasmas,
  Phys. Plasmas 15, 012502 (2008).
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• R. Fitzpatrick, F.L. Waelbroeck,
  Hypersonic drift-tearing magnetic islands in tokamak plasmas,
  Phys. Plasmas 14, 122502 (2007).
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• R. Fitzpatrick, F. Militello, F.L. Waelbroeck,
  The influence of the ion polarization current on magnetic island stability in a tokamak plasma,
  Phys. Plasmas 13, 122507 (2006).
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• R. Fitzpatrick, F.L. Waelbroeck,
  Effect of drift-acoustic waves on magnetic island stability in slab geometry,
  Phys. Plasmas 12, 122511 (2005).
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• R. Fitzpatrick, P.G. Watson, F.L. Waelbroeck,
  Two-fluid magnetic island dynamics in slab geometry: Determination of the island phase velocity,
  Phys. Plasmas 12, 082510 (2005).
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• R. Fitzpatrick, F.L. Waelbroeck,
  Two-fluid magnetic island dynamics in slab geometry: II - Interaction with resistive walls and static external magnetic perturbations,
  Phys. Plasmas 12, 022308 (2005).
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• R. Fitzpatrick, F.L. Waelbroeck,
  Two-fluid magnetic island dynamics in slab geometry: I - Isolated islands,
  Phys. Plasmas 12, 022307 (2005).
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• R. Fitzpatrick, E. Rossi, E.P. Yu,
  Improved evolution equations for magnetic island chains in toroidal pinch plasmas subject to externally applied magnetic perturbations,
  Phys. Plasmas 8, 4489 (2001).
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• R. Fitzpatrick, E. Rossi,
  Control of tearing modes in toroidal fusion experiments using designer error-fields,
  Phys. Plasmas 8, 2760 (2001).
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• R. Fitzpatrick, F.L. Waelbroeck,
  Nonlinear dynamics of feedback modulated magnetic islands in toroidal plasmas,
  Phys. Plasmas 7, 4983 (2000).
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• F.L. Waelbroeck, R. Fitzpatrick,
  Rotation and locking of magnetic islands,
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 1703 (1997).
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• R. Fitzpatrick,
  Helical temperature perturbations associated with tearing modes in tokamak plasmas,
  Phys. Plasmas 2, 825 (1995).
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• R. Fitzpatrick,
  Stability of coupled tearing and twisting modes in tokamaks,
  Phys. Plasmas 1, 3308 (1994).
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• R. Fitzpatrick, R.J. Hastie, T.J. Martin, C.M. Roach,
  Stability of coupled tearing modes in tokamaks,
  Nucl. Fusion 33, 1533 (1993).
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