Plasma instability
Below is a list of instabilities relevant to fusion plasmas (to be completed). Instabilities are often referred to as 'modes', while noting that these terms correspond to different concepts: the existence of an instability is determined by calculating the growth rate of an infinitesimal perturbation, while a mode is a (global) solution of a (linear) (wave) equation.
- Alfvén eigenmode
- Ballooning instability
- Drift wave instability
- Edge Localized Modes
- Electron Temperature Gradient instability
- Flute instability
- Geodesic Acoustic Mode
- Interchange instability
- Ion Temperature Gradient instability
- Kink instability
- Sausage instability
- Tearing mode instability, see also Magnetic island
- Whistler mode