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<b>Drift Wave Simulations with Reduced Stellarator Equilibria</b>
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<p><b>Author:</b> J.L.V. Lewandowski</p>

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<b>Date of PPPL Report:</b> December 1999
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 <B>Submitted to:</B> Physics of Plasmas</p>

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A three-field model to study drift-resistive, low-frequency waves in low-beta, non-axisymmetric plasmas [J.L.V. Lewandowski, Phys. Plasmas, <b>4</b>(11) 4023 (1997)] is used to analyze the effect of the inhomogeneities in the stellarator magnetic field on the fastest (linear) growth rate, gamma. Extensive numerical calculations for a toroidal heliac show that not all Fourier components in the representation of the equilibrium configuration are important as far as gamma is concerned.

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