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The Peeling-Ballooning Model is a description of MHD stability in the edge region of tokamaks | The Peeling-Ballooning Model is a description of MHD stability in the edge region of tokamaks. It predicts where combinations of pedestal pressure and bootstrap current lead to peeling unstable or ballooning unstable modes | ||
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[http://link.aip.org/link/?PHPAEN/5/2687/1 J.W. Connor et al, ''Magnetohydrodynamic stability of tokamak edge plasmas'', Phys. Plasmas '''5''' (1998) 2687] | [http://link.aip.org/link/?PHPAEN/5/2687/1 J.W. Connor et al, ''Magnetohydrodynamic stability of tokamak edge plasmas'', Phys. Plasmas '''5''' (1998) 2687] | ||
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[http://link.aip.org/link/?PHPAEN/9/2037/1 P.B. Snyder et al, ''Edge localized modes and the pedestal: A model based on coupled peeling–ballooning modes'', Phys. Plasmas '''9''' (2002) 2037] | [http://link.aip.org/link/?PHPAEN/9/2037/1 P.B. Snyder et al, ''Edge localized modes and the pedestal: A model based on coupled peeling–ballooning modes'', Phys. Plasmas '''9''' (2002) 2037] | ||
</ref>. | </ref>. As such, the peeling-ballooning model is one possible explanation for the formation of [[Edge Localized Modes]]. | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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