Abstract
The influence of details of an international thermonuclear experimental reactor (ITER)-like geometry on drift wave stability is studied. The eigenvalue problem for electrostatic electron drift waves is solved numerically by following the ballooning mode formalism and using a standard shooting technique. The real frequencies and growth rates of the most unstable modes and their eigenfunctions are calculated for two specific magnetic flux surfaces. For the equilibrium under investigation, the modes are found to be unstable for peak density profiles and their stability is found to be strongly affected by the local magnetic shear (LMS). The presence of positive LMS is found to be destabilizing on the magnetic surface where global magnetic shear is reverse. The stability behaviour is however different for a positive magnetic shear surface where the effect of large positive LMS is found to be stabilizing. The eigenfunctions are more localized in the regions where normal curvature is bad and magnetic field is weak.
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